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The Cultural Politics of Emotion
- Sara Ahmed
- Sociology
- 2004
This is a bold take on the crucial role of emotion in politics. Emotions work to define who we are as well as shape what we do and this is no more powerfully at play than in the world of politics.…
The Promise of Happiness
- Sara Ahmed
- Art
- 6 April 2010
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…
Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality
- Sara Ahmed
- Art
- 19 September 2000
1. Introduction: Stranger Fetishism and Post-Coloniality 2. Recognising Strangers 3. Knowing Strangers 4. Embodying Strangers 5. Home and Away: Narratives of Migration and Estrangement 6.…
Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others
- Sara Ahmed
- Philosophy, Art
- 2006
In this groundbreaking work, Sara Ahmed demonstrates how queer studies can put phenomenology to productive use. Focusing on the “orientation” aspect of “sexual orientation” and the “orient” in…
Affective Economies
- Sara Ahmed
- Art
- 14 May 2004
soul and spirit, no form of “hate” could even begin to compare. At least not a hate motivated by ungrounded reasoning. It is not hate that makes the average white man look upon a mixed race couple…
A phenomenology of whiteness
- Sara Ahmed
- Philosophy
- 1 August 2007
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…
Collective Feelings
- Sara Ahmed
- Art
- 1 April 2004
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…
'Declarations of Whiteness: The Non-Performativity of Anti-Racism'
- Sara Ahmed
- Sociology, Psychology
- 2004
This paper examines six different modes for declaring whiteness used within academic writing, public culture and government policy, arguing that such declarations are non-performative: they do not do…
Living a Feminist Life
- Sara Ahmed
- Art, Sociology
- 3 February 2017
In Living a Feminist Life Sara Ahmed shows how feminist theory is generated from everyday life and the ordinary experiences of being a feminist at home and at work. Building on legacies of feminist…
Home and away
- Sara Ahmed
- Art
- 1 December 1999
This article examines the relationship between migration and identity by complicating our notion of what ‘home’ means, both for the narrative of ‘being at home’ and for the narrative of ‘leaving…
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