Ghostly Matters by Avery F. Gordon
Haunting and the Sociological Imagination
This study argues that haunting is a social phenomenon through which suppressed histories and violences—such as slavery, colonialism, racial terror, and state repression—make themselves felt in the present. Blending sociology, critical theory, and literature, it develops a method for noticing how power produces absences and how ghosts signal unfinished business that demands ethical and political accountability. Through readings of fiction and historical cases, it shows how the hidden and the missing continue to organize everyday life and shape social relations. Ultimately, it proposes haunting as a way to reckon with what official narratives deny, opening possibilities for more just futures.
- Published
- 1997
- Nationality
- American
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- Pages
- 260-270
- Original Language
- English
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