rulapeep reviewed Ghostly matters by Avery Gordon
Review of 'Ghostly matters' on 'Storygraph'
4 stars
(slight cheat because I didn't read the 3rd chapter) BUT underneath some of the more obscure phrases / idioms / dense postmodern and psychoanalytic jargon .... this is actually pretty great. It's not entirely what I was expecting, but had some really significant stuff to say about HOW we do sociology, what and whom we devote time to, what it means to consider the present as a sociological focal point. Also the chapter on Toni Morrison is pretty essential reading (the rest of the book ... less so? idk maybe it would've been less good without the introduction). ANYWAY for its really beautifully written reflective segments and its reckoning with the very discipline it situates itself in, 4*. Want to read more stuff about spectrality now x