26 found
Order:
Disambiguations
Sara Ahmed [31]Sarah Ahmed [3]
  1. Queer phenomenology: orientations, objects, others.Sara Ahmed - 2006 - Durham: Duke University Press.
    Introduction: find your way -- Orientations toward objects -- Sexual orientation -- The orient and other others -- Conclusion: disorientation and queer objects.
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   187 citations  
  2. The Promise of Happiness.Sara Ahmed - 2010 - Durham [NC]: Duke University Press.
    _The Promise of Happiness_ is a provocative cultural critique of the imperative to be happy. It asks what follows when we make our desires and even our own happiness conditional on the happiness of others: “I just want you to be happy”; “I’m happy if you’re happy.” Combining philosophy and feminist cultural studies, Sara Ahmed reveals the affective and moral work performed by the “happiness duty,” the expectation that we will be made happy by taking part in that which is (...)
  3.  54
    Living a feminist life.Sara Ahmed - 2015 - Durham: Duke University Press.
    Feminism is sensational -- On being directed -- Willfulness and feminist subjectivity -- Trying to transform -- Being in question -- Brick walls -- Fragile connections -- Feminist snap -- Lesbian feminism -- Conclusion 1: A killjoy survival kit -- Conclusion 2: A killjoy manifesto.
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   82 citations  
  4. A phenomenology of whiteness.Sara Ahmed - 2007 - Feminist Theory 8 (2):149-168.
    The paper suggests that we can usefully approach whiteness through the lens of phenomenology. Whiteness could be described as an ongoing and unfinished history, which orientates bodies in specific directions, affecting how they `take up' space, and what they `can do'. The paper considers how whiteness functions as a habit, even a bad habit, which becomes a background to social action. The paper draws on experiences of inhabiting a white world as a non-white body, and explores how whiteness becomes worldly (...)
    No categories
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   98 citations  
  5. Open Forum Imaginary Prohibitions: Some Preliminary Remarks on the Founding Gestures of the `New Materialism'.Sara Ahmed - 2008 - European Journal of Women's Studies 15 (1):23-39.
    We have no interest whatever in minimizing the continuing history of racist, sexist, homophobic, or otherwise abusive biologisms, or the urgency of their exposure, that has made the gravamen of so many contemporary projects of critique. At the same time, we fear — with installation of an automatic antibiologism as the unshifting tenet of `theory' — the loss of conceptual access to an entire thought-realm. I was left wondering what danger had been averted by the exclusion of biology. What does (...)
    No categories
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   27 citations  
  6.  4
    What's the use?: on the uses of use.Sara Ahmed - 2019 - Durham: Duke University Press.
    In What's the Use? Sara Ahmed continues the work she began in The Promise of Happiness and Willful Subjects by taking up a single word--in this case, use--and following it around. She shows how use became associated with life and strength in nineteenth century biological and social thought and considers how utilitarianism offered a set of educational techniques for shaping individuals by directing them toward useful ends. Ahmed also explores how spaces become restricted to some uses and users with specific (...)
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   6 citations  
  7. Differences that matter: feminist theory and postmodernism.Sara Ahmed - 1998 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    Differences That Matter challenges existing ways of theorising the relationship between feminism and postmodernism which ask 'is or should feminism be modern or postmodern?' Sara Ahmed suggests that postmodernism has been allowed to dictate feminist debates and calls instead for feminist theorists to speak (back) to postmodernism, rather than simply speak on (their relationship to) it. Such a 'speaking back' involves a refusal to position postmodernism as a generalisable condition of the world and requires closer readings of what postmodernism is (...)
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   21 citations  
  8.  29
    Willful Subjects.Sara Ahmed - 2014 - Durham: Duke University Press.
    In _Willful Subjects_ Sara Ahmed explores willfulness as a charge often made by some against others. One history of will is a history of attempts to eliminate willfulness from the will. Delving into philosophical and literary texts, Ahmed examines the relation between will and willfulness, ill will and good will, and the particular will and general will. Her reflections shed light on how will is embedded in a political and cultural landscape, how it is embodied, and how will and willfulness (...)
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   10 citations  
  9. Collective Feelings.Sara Ahmed - 2004 - Theory, Culture and Society 21 (2):25-42.
    This article examines ‘collective feelings’ by considering how ‘others’ create impressions on the surfaces of bodies. Rather than considering ‘collective feeling’ as ‘fellow feeling’ or in terms of feeling ‘for’ the collective, the article suggests that how we respond to others in intercorporeal encounters creates the impression of a collective body. In other words, how we feel about others is what aligns us with a collective, which paradoxically ‘takes shape’ only as an effect of such alignments. The article considers different (...)
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   25 citations  
  10. Whiteness and the General Will: Diversity Work as Willful Work.Sara Ahmed - 2012 - philoSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism 2 (1):1-20.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Whiteness and the General WillDiversity Work as Willful WorkSara AhmedIn this essay I explore whiteness in relation to the general will. My starting point is that the idea of “the general will” offers us a vocabulary for thinking through the materiality of race. In his keynote address to the 40th Annual Philosophy Symposium in 2010, Charles Mills argues that race is material: it becomes part of the living human (...)
    Direct download (4 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   6 citations  
  11. Orientations matter.Sara Ahmed - 2010 - In Diana Coole & Samantha Frost (eds.), New Materialisms: Ontology, Agency, and Politics. Duke University Press. pp. 234--258.
  12.  15
    Whose Counting?Sara Ahmed - 2000 - Feminist Theory 1 (1):97-103.
    No categories
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   9 citations  
  13. ''`She 'll Wake Up One of These Days and Find She's Turned into a Nigger': Passing through Hybridity.Sara Ahmed - 1999 - Theory, Culture and Society 16 (2):87-106.
    In this article, I examine racial narratives of passing and their relationship to discourses of hybridity. Rather than defining passing as inherently transgressive, or as one side of identity politics or the other, I suggest that passing must be understood in relationship to forms of social antagonism. I ask the following questions: how are differences that threaten the system recuperated? How do ambiguous or hybrid bodies get read in a way which further supports the enunciative power of those who are (...)
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   8 citations  
  14.  34
    Orientations.Sara Ahmed, Romain/Emma-Rose Bigé & Daphné Pons - 2021 - Multitudes 82 (1):197-203.
    Quel est l’étrange point commun qui réunit l’orientation spatiale, l’orientation sexuelle et l’orientalisme? Comment notre expérience intime de l’espace comme orienté et nos peurs de désorientation jouent-ils sur nos manières d’appréhender les dissidences de genre et de sexualité? Autant de questions que la phénoménologie de Sara Ahmed explore dans ce texte en s’interrogeant sur la manière dont les espaces que nous habitons redressent nos comportements et comment celleux qui désobéissent à cette rectitude sont lues comme étranges, obliques, bref : queer.
    No categories
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1 citation  
  15. Beyond Humanism and Postmodernism: Theorizing a Feminist Practice.Sara Ahmed - 1996 - Hypatia 11 (2):71 - 93.
    The model of feminism as humanist in practice and postmodern in theory is inadequate. Feminist practice and theory directly inform each other to displace both humanist and postmodern conceptions of the subject. An examination of feminism's use of rights discourse suggests that feminist practice questions the humanist conception of the subject as a self-identity. Likewise, feminist theory undermines the postmodern emphasis on the constitutive instability and indeterminacy of the subject.
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   6 citations  
  16.  48
    Doing Diversity Work in Higher Education in Australia.Sara Ahmed - 2006 - Educational Philosophy and Theory 38 (6):745-768.
    This paper explores how diversity is used as a key term to describe the social and educational mission of universities in Australia. The paper suggests that we need to explore what diversity ‘does’ in specific contexts. Drawing on interviews with diversity and equal opportunities practitioners, the paper suggests that ‘diversity’ is used in the face of what has been called ‘equity fatigue’. Diversity is associated with what is new, and allows practitioners to align themselves and their units with the existing (...)
    Direct download (4 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   4 citations  
  17.  53
    Testimonial cultures: An introduction.Sara Ahmed & Jackie Stacey - 2001 - Cultural Values 5 (1):1-6.
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   2 citations  
  18.  58
    A Willfulness Archive.Sara Ahmed - forthcoming - Theory and Event 15 (3).
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1 citation  
  19. Feminist futures.Sara Ahmed - 2003 - In Mary Eagleton (ed.), A concise companion to feminist theory. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
  20.  32
    Moving Spaces.Sara Ahmed - 1996 - Theory, Culture and Society 13 (1):139-146.
  21.  17
    Policy Intervention and Financial Sustainability in an Emerging Economy: A Structural Vector Auto Regression Analysis.Sarah Ahmed, Nazima Ellahi, Ajmal Waheed & Nida Aman - 2022 - Frontiers in Psychology 13.
    The purpose of the study is to observe the impact of policy intervention on financial sustainability using the structural vector autoregression analysis. The population of the study is the manufacturing sector of Pakistan, which is an emerging economy. Data for 249 firms operating in the manufacturing sector are taken, collected from Datastream from 2005 to 2019, with total observations of 2,400. To conduct the analysis, R software is used for its better visualization. Results show that firm performance, corporate governance, and (...)
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  22.  28
    Women Left Behind: Migration, Agency, and the Pakistani Woman.Sarah Ahmed - 2020 - Gender and Society 34 (4):597-619.
    This article examines how migration impacts power dynamics and gender norms for women left behind living in rural Southern Punjab, Pakistan, a site where patriarchal customs and religion are interwoven to confine women’s mobility and agency. Based on qualitative interviews and focus groups with women left behind from 2015 through 2018, this article explores how local rural-to-urban male migration patterns impact the decision-making powers of women who are left behind and must make sense of the family structure and gender dynamics (...)
    No categories
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  23.  31
    Creating a rehabilitation living lab to optimize participation and inclusion for persons with physical disabilities.Eva Kehayia, Bonnie Swaine, Cristina Longo, Sara Ahmed, Philippe Archambault, Joyce Fung, Dahlia Kairy, Anouk Lamontagne, Guylaine Le Dorze, Hélène Lefebvre, Olga Overbury & Tiiu Poldma - 2014 - Alter - European Journal of Disability Research / Revue Européenne de Recherche Sur le Handicap 8 (3):151-157.
    No categories
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  24. Problematic Proximities: Or Why Critiques of Gay Imperialism Matter. [REVIEW]Sara Ahmed - 2011 - Feminist Legal Studies 19 (2):119-132.
    This article examines the issues of censorship, language and racism through a critical reflection on Peter Tatchell’s response to the critique of gay imperialism offered by Jin Haritaworn, Tamsila Tauqir and Esra Erdem. In ‘Academics smear Peter Tatchell’, we are invited to find evidence of ‘Islamophobia, racism or support for imperialist wars’ in the writings that can be downloaded from Tatchell’s website. The article shows how islamophobia and racism operate in Tatchell’s writings not necessary in the content of specific arguments (...)
    Direct download (4 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   2 citations  
  25.  14
    Book Review: Sex and Secularism by Joan Wallach Scott. [REVIEW]Sarah Ahmed - 2018 - Gender and Society 32 (5):749-751.
    No categories
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  26.  9
    Object Lessons, Robyn Wiegman. [REVIEW]Sara Ahmed - 2012 - Feminist Theory 13 (3):345-348.
    No categories
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark