Vithetens hegemoni innehåller reflektioner om vithet och rasism i vardagen och inom olika institutionskulturer. Genom att dra nytta av sin egen erfarenhet av att bebo en vit värld som en icke-vit kropp undersöker feministen och teoretikern Sara Ahme…
I Att leva feministiskt visar Sara Ahmed hur feministisk teori uppstår ur vardagliga erfarenheter av att vara feminist i hemmet och på jobbet. Ahmed utgår särskilt från rasifierade feministers forskning och erbjuder en poetisk och personlig betrakte…
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 of color scholarship in particular, Ahmed offers a…
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 "orientalism," Ahmed examines what it means for bodies t…
What does diversity do? What are we doing when we use the language of diversity? Sara Ahmed offers an account of the diversity world based on interviews with diversity practitioners in higher education, as well as her own experience of doing diversi…
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 nineteent…
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. Ahmed considers how emotions keep us invested in rel…
Topics such as race, gender, politics, religion, and sexuality are part of our students' lives, yet when these subjects are brought up at school teachers often struggle with how to respond. How do we create learning conditions where kids can ask the…
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…
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…
"En killjoy har sine principper. Et killjoy-manifest viser, hvordan vi skaber principper ud fra oplevelsen af at støde imod, ud fra måden vi lever feministiske liv. Når jeg her taler om principper, mener jeg ikke regler for god opførsel, som vi skal…
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…
In Complaint! Sara Ahmed examines what we can learn about power from those who complain about abuses of power. Drawing on oral and written testimonies from academics and students who have made complaints about harassment, bullying and unequal workin…
50 år efter The summer of love är de kärleksbudskap som då formulerades i marginalen vanligt förekommande inslag i gängse politisk retorik. Det är på detta språk som kampen nu utspelar sig. Det kan handla om att älska sitt land eller om rätten att…
New forms of transnational mobility and diasporic belonging have become emblematic of a supposed 'global' condition of uprootedness. Yet much recent theorizing of our so-called 'postmodern' life emphasizes movement and fluidity without interrogating…
Praise for the first edition"Ahmed's work contributes to cultural studies and rhetorical theory by elaborating a process through which we can approach everyday emotional practices as rich and complex sites interwoven in struggles for social change."…
Rasistinen viharyhmä julistaa toimivansa rakkaudesta, uutislähetys varoittaa pakolaisaallosta, valtionpäämies ilmoittaa häpeävänsä maansa menneitä tekoja. Sanat ohjaavat tunteita ja sanoilla ohjaillaan tunteita; tunteet eivät kammitsoidu yksilöiden…
This exciting collection of work from leading feminist scholars including Elspeth Probyn, Penelope Deutscher and Chantal Nadeau engages with and extends the growing feminist literature on lived and imagined embodiment and argues for consideration of…
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 dict…
I Et ulydigt arkiv er syv af Sara Ahmeds artikler fra de sidste 20 år samlet og for første gang udgivet på dansk. Teksterne arbejder med figurer som ’den feministiske glædesdræber’, ’den melankolske immigrant’, ’det ege…
I always like making stuff. And I always like sharing them with other people who feel interested about them. Although I've been doing so through my blog since 2008 but instructables.com has given me a whole new level of motivation to make and share…
2012 inledde Albert Bonniers Förlag ett samarbete med Berättarministeriet. Berättarministeriet är en organisation som ordnar olika läs- och skrivfrämjande verksamheter för barn och ungdomar mellan 8-18 år i områden med hög arbetslöshet. Märkliga hän…
