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Avery Gordon, Keeping Good Time: Reflections on Knowledge, Power, and People Paradigm, 2004

Scraton & McCulloch, eds., The Violence of Incarceration Routledge, 2008

Does utopianism have any place in progressive and radical thinking? What happens to possibilities for empowerment and liberation when the current system becomes the dominant frame of reference? Avery Gordon assesses certain contentions made by Engels, Wallerstein and Marcuse, and elucidates her own understanding of utopia.

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