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Strange Encounters

Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality

By: Sara Ahmed

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Strange Encounters

Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality

By: Sara Ahmed

Examining the relationship between strangers, embodiment and community, Strange Encounters challenges the assumptions that the stranger is simply anybody we do not recognize and instead proposes that he or she is socially constructued as somebody we already know. Using feminist and postcolonial theory this book examines the impact of multiculturalism and globalization on embodiment and community whilst considering the ethical and political implication of its critique for post-colonial feminism. A diverse range of texts are analyzed which produce the figure of 'the stranger', showing that it has alternatively been expelled as the origin of danger - such as in neighbourhood watch, or celebrated as the origin of difference - as in multiculturalism. The author argues that both of these standpoints are problematic as they involve 'stranger fetishism'; they assume that the stranger 'has a life of its own'.

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Routledge

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1135120110

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9781135120115

Differences that Matter

Feminist Theory and Postmodernism

By: Sara Ahmed

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Differences that Matter

Feminist Theory and Postmodernism

By: Sara Ahmed

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 actually 'doing' in a variety of disciplinary contexts. Sara Ahmed hence examines constructions of postmodernism in relation to rights, ethics, subjectivity, authorship, meta-fiction and film.

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240

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Cambridge University Press

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0521597617

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9780521597616

What's the Use?

On the Uses of Use

By: Sara Ahmed

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What's the Use?

On the Uses of Use

By: Sara Ahmed

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 reference to universities. She notes, however, the potential for queer use: how things can be used in ways that were not intended or by those for whom they were not intended. Ahmed posits queer use as a way of reanimating the project of diversity work as the ordinary and painstaking task of opening up institutions to those who have historically been excluded.

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200

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Duke University Press

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1478007214

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9781478007210

Cultural Politics of Emotion

By: Sara Ahmed

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Cultural Politics of Emotion

By: Sara Ahmed

A bold exploration of the relationship between emotions and politics, through case studies on international terrorism, asylum, migration, reconciliation and reparation. Develops a theory of how emotions work and their effects on our daily lives.

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269

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748691154

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9780748691159

The Cultural Politics of Emotion

By: Sara Ahmed

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The Cultural Politics of Emotion

By: Sara Ahmed

In The Cultural Politics of the Emotions, Sara Ahmed develops a new methodology for reading "the emotionality of texts." She offers analyses of the role of emotions in debates on international terrorism, asylum and migration, and reconciliation and reparation, and reflects on the role of emotions in feminist and queer politics. Of interest to readers in gender studies and cultural studies, the psychology and sociology of emotions, and phenomenology and psychoanalysis, The Cultural Politics of the Emotions offers new ways of thinking about our inner and our outer lives.--Publisher description

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Routledge

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1135205752

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Strange Encounters

Strange Encounters

Differences that Matter

Differences that Matter

What's the Use?

What's the Use?

Cultural Politics of Emotion

Cultural Politics of Emotion

The Cultural Politics of Emotion

The Cultural Politics of Emotion

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