The Reorder of Things

A critical account of how academia and global capital appropriated the revolutionary 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 global capitalism but were, rather, constitutive of it.