Complaint!

Sara Ahmed

Veröffentlicht von Duke University Press 2021

Complaint!

Sara Ahmed

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478022336

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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.

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Sara Ahmed is an independent scholar and author of What's the Use?, Living a Feminist Life, and other books also published by Duke University Press.

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“Sara Ahmed always has her finger on the pulse of the times as she assists us to explore the deeper meanings and philosophical nuances of quotidian concepts and practices. Beautifully written and thoroughly engaging, Complaint! is precisely the text we need at this moment as we seek to understand and transform the institutional structures promoting racism and heteropatriarchy.”

-- Angela Y. Davis

“In her latest contribution to our knowledge, Sara Ahmed gifts us with a book about the phenomenology of complaint and the layered, entangled complexity of how power works institutionally. She foregrounds that to complain is to transgress. To transgress is to become a site of negation. To negate is to trigger an institution into protecting the status quo through risk-adverse processes that are experienced as violent and exhaustive. Ahmed’s intellectually expansive book achieves two things: it exposes the meaning, experiences, and perceptions of complaint and provides testimony to the courage of those who complain, who fight, who believe justice should not just appear to be done; it must be done.”

-- Aileen Moreton-Robinson, author of Talkin’ Up to the White Woman: Indigenous Women and Feminism

"[Ahmed] presents a strong argument that power in higher education tends to protect itself, that diversity initiatives are often nothing more than window dressing, and that those who file complaints about a hostile work environment often face accusations of disloyalty or troublemaking. . . . Most of the charges here are broad and general, but anyone who has worked in higher education will recognize much of what Ahmed brings to light. Sharp criticism of an overlooked systemic problem in higher education."

-- Kirkus Reviews

"In her powerful new book . . . Sara Ahmed builds on a series of oral and written testimonies from students and employees who have complained to higher education universities about harassment and inequality. Here, she asks readers to think about some inescapable questions: What happens when complaints are pushed under the rug? How is complaint radical feminism? And, how can we learn about power from those who choose to fight against the powerful?"

-- Rebecca Schneid Indy Week

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Frontmatter Öffentlich zugänglich PDF downloaden	i
CONTENTS Öffentlich zugänglich PDF downloaden	ix
Acknowledgments Öffentlich zugänglich PDF downloaden	xi
Introduction: Hearing Complaint Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert PDF downloaden	1
PART I INSTITUTIONAL MECHANICS
1 Mind the Gap! Policies, Procedures, and Other Nonperformatives Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert PDF downloaden	27
2 On Being Stopped Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert PDF downloaden	69
PART II THE IMMANENCE OF COMPLAINT
3 In the Thick of It Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert PDF downloaden	101
4 Occupied Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert PDF downloaden	137
PART III IF THESE DOORS COULD TALK
5 Behind Closed Doors: Complaints and Institutional Violence Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert PDF downloaden	175
6 Holding the Door: Power, Promotion, Progression Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert PDF downloaden	220
PART IV CONCLUSIONS
7 Collective Conclusions Leila Whitley, Tiffany Page, Alice Corble, Heidi Hasbrouck und Chryssa Sdrolia Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert PDF downloaden	257
8 Complaint Collectives Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert PDF downloaden	274
Notes Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert PDF downloaden	311
References Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert PDF downloaden	343
Index Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert PDF downloaden	353

Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Duke University Press
Copyrightjahr: 2021
Zielgruppe: General/trade;
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Veröffentlicht: 9. August 2021
ISBN: 9781478022336