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...

Sara Ahmed is an independent scholar and author of Living a Feminist Life and several other books also published by Duke University Press. von Ahmed, Sara

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 author considers how emotions keep us invested in relationships of power, and also shows how this...

Complaint! von Ahmed, Sara

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...

The Cultural Politics Of Emotions

Sara Ahmed is Professor of Race and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Her books include The Cultural Politics of Emotion; Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality; and Differences that Matter:...

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,...

"Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others" von Sara Ahmed ist ein philosophisches Werk, das die Konzepte der Orientierung und Desorientierung im Kontext von Queerness untersucht. Ahmed nutzt den Rahmen der Phänomenologie, um zu...

„The Promise of Happiness“ von Sara Ahmed ist eine tiefgehende Auseinandersetzung mit dem Konzept des Glücks und dessen Rolle in der Gesellschaft. Ahmed untersucht, wie Glück oft als Ziel dargestellt wird, das durch die Einhaltung...