Reviews for Redeeming modernity

The average rating for Redeeming modernity based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-05-31 00:00:00 Eric Contreras Once again I am left in awe of Andrew Ross's range and versatility, and see in his work my kind of vision for what cultural studies should be: oriented to activism and meeting just a few of academia's obligations to struggles for justice. Despite the dating of some of the cases (always a problem for cultural studies) all of the pieces retain political and intellectual power - even where the subjects are Clarence Thomas and O J Simpson (two of only three pieces not reworked for the collection). Only the detail of the essay about working in the IT sector has really dated - but the model of precarity (not a term we used 13 years ago) has held up, and is updated in and throughout last year's (2009's) Nice Work Of You Can Get It. The stand-out essays are the political economy framed analysis of roots and dancehall reggae through the shifting frame of IMF policy impositions on Jamaica, but more powerfully the analysis and critique of the poltiics of scarcity (in late 2000's jargon read austerity) and the final paper drawing on the debate about economic and cultural justice best exemplified by exchanges between Nancy Fraser & Iris Marion Young. Marvellous, and weakened only slightly by the passage of time.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-09-09 00:00:00 Tom Jones This would be a lot better if one out of every two articles wasn't about Gang of Four.