The Reorder of Things

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Author: Roderick A. FergusonISBN: 9780816672790Publisher: University of Minnesota PressYear first published: 15 Jan 2013Pages: 280 Format: Paperback / softbackA critical account of how academia and global capital appropriated therevolutionary fervor of the 1960s and 1970s. Roderick A. Ferguson traces and assesses the ways in which the rise of interdisciplines-departments of race, gender, and ethnicity; fields such as queer studies-were not simply a challenge to contemporary power as manifest in academia, the state, and globalcapitalism but were, rather, constitutive of it. Show more