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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 to be situated in space and time. Bodies take shape as they move through the world directing themselves toward or away from objects and others. Being “orientated” means feeling at home, knowing where one stands, or having certain objects within reach. Orientations affect what is proximate to the body or what can be reached. A queer phenomenology, Ahmed contends, reveals how social relations are arranged spatially, how queerness disrupts and reorders these relations by not following the accepted paths, and how a politics of disorientation puts other objects within reach, those that might, at first glance, seem awry. Ahmed proposes that a queer phenomenology might investigate not only how the concept of orientation is informed by phenomenology but also the orientation of phenomenology itself. Thus she reflects on the significance of the objects that appear—and those that do not—as signs of orientation in classic phenomenological texts such as Husserl’s Ideas. In developing a queer model of orientations, she combines readings of phenomenological texts—by Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Fanon—with insights drawn from queer studies, feminist theory, critical race theory, Marxism, and psychoanalysis. Queer Phenomenology points queer theory in bold new directions.

Philosophical anthropology --- 82-993 --- Erotische literatuur --- Homosexuality --- Spatial behavior. --- Philosophy. --- fenomenologie --- Theatrical science --- 82-993 Erotische literatuur --- Homosexualité --- Comportement spatial --- Philosophie --- Homosexualité --- Spatial behavior --- Behavior, Spatial --- Proxemic behavior --- Space behavior --- Spatially-oriented behavior --- Psychology --- Space and time --- Philosophy --- homosexuality --- Filosofische antropologie --- Theaterwetenschap --- homoseksualiteit --- phenomenology --- Comportement spatial. --- Personnes queers. --- Philosophie.

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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 diversity work. Diversity is an ordinary, even unremarkable, feature of institutional life. Yet diversity practitioners often experience institutions as resistant to their work, as captured through their use of the metaphor of the "brick wall." On Being Included offers an explanation of this apparent paradox. It explores the gap between symbolic commitments to diversity and the experience of those who embody diversity. Commitments to diversity are understood as "non-performatives" that do not bring about what they name. The book provides an account of institutional whiteness and shows how racism can be obscured by the institutionalization of diversity. Diversity is used as evidence that institutions do not have a problem with racism. On Being Included offers a critique of what happens when diversity is offered as a solution. It also shows how diversity workers generate knowledge of institutions in attempting to transform them

Minorities in higher education. --- Racism in higher education. --- Education, Higher --- Cultural pluralism. --- Universities and colleges --- #SBIB:316.8H16 --- Cultural diversity --- Diversity, Cultural --- Diversity, Religious --- Ethnic diversity --- Pluralism (Social sciences) --- Pluralism, Cultural --- Religious diversity --- Culture --- Cultural fusion --- Ethnicity --- Multiculturalism --- Social aspects. --- Sociological aspects. --- Welzijns- en sociale problemen: migranten, rassenrelaties --- Sociology of minorities --- Higher education --- Cultural pluralism --- Minorities in higher education --- Racism in higher education --- Social aspects --- Sociological aspects --- Sociologie van de minderheden --- Hoger onderwijs. Universitair onderwijs --- United Kingdom --- Australia --- Cultural Diversity --- Cultural Pluralism --- Pluralism --- Cultural Diversities --- Diversities, Cultural --- Multiculturalisms --- Pluralisms --- Ethical Relativism --- Cultural Diversity. --- Race --- Racism --- Black feminism --- Book

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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.--

Ahmed, Sara --- Utilitarianism --- Education, Higher --- Universities and colleges --- Queer theory --- Philosophy --- Social aspects --- Sociological aspects --- Nutzen. --- Nutzung. --- Philosophie. --- Queer theory. --- Queer-Theorie. --- Society. --- Universität. --- Utilitarismus. --- Social aspects. --- Sociological aspects. --- 1800-1899. --- Sociology of culture --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Utilitarianism - Philosophy - 19th century --- Education, Higher - Social aspects --- Universities and colleges - Sociological aspects --- Queer --- Theory --- Women's studies --- Book

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