Bøker av Sara Ahmed

Showing how feminist theory is generated from everyday life and the ordinary experiences of being a feminist, Sara Ahmed highlights the ties between feminist theory and living a life that sustains it by building on legacies of feminist of color scholarship and discussing the figure of the feminist killjoy.

This provocative cultural critique of the imperative to be happy draws on the work of feminist, black, and queer critics showing how happiness is used to justify social oppression.

Cultural theorist Sara Ahmed demonstrates how queer studies can put phenomenology to productive use by analyzing what it means for bodies to be "oriented" in space and time.

We have to keep saying it because they keep doing it.Do colleagues roll their eyes in a meeting when you use words like sexism or racism? Do you refuse to laugh at jokes that aren't funny? Have you been called divisive for pointing out a division? Then you are a feminist killjoy, and this handbook is for you.The term killjoy has been used to dismiss feminism by claiming that it causes misery. But by naming ourselves feminist killjoys, we recover a feminist history, turning it into a source of strength as well as an inspiration.Drawing on her own stories and those of others, especially Black and brown feminists and queer thinkers, Sara Ahmed combines depth of thought with honesty and intimacy. The Feminist Killjoy Handbook unpicks the lies our culture tells us and provides a form of solidarity and companionship that can be returned to over a lifetime.

Drawing on oral and written testimonies from academics and students who have made complaints about harassment, bullying, and unequal working conditions at universities, Sara Ahmed examines what we can learn about power from those who complain about abuses of power.

Continuing the work she began in The Promise of Happiness and Willful Subjects by taking up a single word and following its historical, intellectual, and political significance, Sara Ahmed explores how use operates as an organizing concept, technology of control, and tool for diversity work.

Argues that a commitment to diversity is frequently substituted for a commitment to actual change. This title traces the work that diversity does, examining how the term is used and the way it serves to make questions about racism seem impertinent.

Cultural theorist Sara Ahmed explores how willfulness is often a charge made by some against others. By following the figure of the willful subject, who wills wrongly or wills too much, Ahmed suggests that willfulness might be required to recover from attempts at its elimination.

Britisk-australske Sara Ahmed (f. 1969) har skrevet en rekke bøker og artikler inspirert av fenomenologi, postkolonialisme og kjønnsteori. Hennes kanskje mest kjente tankefigur er «den feministiske gledesdreperen» - et bilde på hva som skjer når det er den som påpeker sexisme eller rasisme som blir oppfattet som et problem, i stedet for at den egentlige uretten blir tatt tak i.I sine teoretiske analyser tar Ahmed utgangspunkt i hverdagslig ubehag som skapes av rasisme, sexisme og heteronormativitet. Hun knytter personlige erfaringer og nyhetssaker så vel som skjønnlitterære historier til filosofien, noe som gjør at leseren kan kjenne seg igjen og relatere teorien til sitt eget liv. «Forfatterskapet er uovertruffent i samtidig kulturkritikk når det kommer til å skape leseropplevelser av at det er samfunnet, ikke jeg, som er problemet. Derfor kan disse gledesdrepende essayene paradoksalt nok skape stort engasjement og entusiasme» (fra forordet).Essayene i denne boka tar for seg sentrale temaer i Ahmeds forfatterskap og er de første av hennes tekster som har blitt oversatt til norsk. Tekstene er oversatt av Lene Auestad, og forordet er skrevet av Stine Helena Bang Svendsen og Hannah Helseth.

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.

South Asia's significant water resources are unevenly distributed, with about a fifth of the population lacking adequate access. By revealing the extent to which water access depends on power relations and politics, this book offers fresh perspectives on the relationship between gender equity and water issues in South Asia.

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.