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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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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 relationships of power, and also shows how this use of emotion could be crucial to areas such as feminist and queer politics. Debates on international terrorism, asylum and migration, as well as reconciliation and reparation, are explored through topical case studies. In this book the difficult issues are confronted head on. The Cultural Politics of Emotion is in dialogue with recent literature on emotions within gender studies, cultural studies, sociology, psychology and philosophy. Throughout the book, Ahmed develops a theory of how emotions work, and the effects they have on our day-to-day lives. New for this edition A substantial 15,000-word Afterword on'Emotions and Their Objects'which provides an original contribution to the burgeoning field of affect studies A revised Bibliography Updated throughout.

Emotions --- Language and emotions --- Political psychology. --- Political culture. --- Psychologie politique --- Culture politique --- Social aspects. --- Political aspects. --- Aspect social --- Langage et émotions --- Political aspects --- Aspect politique --- Langage et émotions --- politics --- sensation --- Sociology of culture --- Affective and dynamic functions --- Political sociology --- emotion --- Sociology of minorities --- homosexuality --- feminism --- minderheden --- Culturele verschillen. --- Emoties. --- Gefühl. --- Politik. --- Politische Kultur. --- Psychologie. --- Soziales. --- Soziokultureller Faktor. --- Political culture --- Political psychology --- #SBIB:316.7C140 --- #SBIB:39A4 --- 316.613.4 --- Culturele verschillen --- Emoties --- Mass political behavior --- Political behavior --- Political science --- Politics, Practical --- Psychology, Political --- Psychology --- Social psychology --- Culture --- Social aspects --- Cultuursociologie: cultuur en globale samenlevingen --- Toegepaste antropologie --- Sociale gevoelens. Emoties --- Psychological aspects --- UmU kursbok --- emoties --- 316.613.4 Sociale gevoelens. Emoties --- Emotions. --- Affect (Psychology) --- Affective neuroscience --- Apathy --- Pathognomy --- Feelings --- Human emotions --- Passions --- Émotions --- Société. --- Émotions --- Société. --- Perception sensible --- Emotion --- Groupe social --- Politique et pouvoirs publics

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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 you’re happy.” Combining philosophy and feminist cultural studies, Sara Ahmed reveals the affective and moral work performed by the “happiness duty,” the expectation that we will be made happy by taking part in that which is deemed good, and that by being happy ourselves, we will make others happy. Ahmed maintains that happiness is a promise that directs us toward certain life choices and away from others. Happiness is promised to those willing to live their lives in the right way.

Ahmed draws on the intellectual history of happiness, from classical accounts of ethics as the good life, through seventeenth-century writings on affect and the passions, eighteenth-century debates on virtue and education, and nineteenth-century utilitarianism. She engages with feminist, antiracist, and queer critics who have shown how happiness is used to justify social oppression, and how challenging oppression causes unhappiness. Reading novels and films including Mrs. Dalloway, The Well of Loneliness, Bend It Like Beckham, and Children of Men, Ahmed considers the plight of the figures who challenge and are challenged by the attribution of happiness to particular objects or social ideals: the feminist killjoy, the unhappy queer, the angry black woman, and the melancholic migrant. Through her readings she raises critical questions about the moral order imposed by the injunction to be happy.

Happiness. --- Social norms. --- Social control. --- 316.62 --- Social conflict --- Sociology --- Liberty --- Pressure groups --- Folkways --- Norms, Social --- Rules, Social --- Social rules --- Manners and customs --- Social control --- Gladness --- Emotions --- Cheerfulness --- Contentment --- Pleasure --- Well-being --- Sociaal gedrag. Leefstijl --- 316.62 Sociaal gedrag. Leefstijl --- Bonheur --- Normes sociales --- Contrôle social --- Contrôle social --- Happiness --- Social norms --- Developmental psychology --- Social psychology --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality

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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 relation between will and willfulness, ill will and good will, and the particular will and general will. Her reflections shed light on how will is embedded in a political and cultural landscape, how it is embodied, and how will and willfulness are socially mediated. Attentive to the wayward, the wandering, and the deviant, Ahmed considers how willfulness is taken up by those who have received its charge. Grounded in feminist, queer, and antiracist politics, her sui generis analysis of the willful subject, the figure who wills wrongly or wills too much, suggests that willfulness might be required to recover from the attempt at its elimination.

Wilsonbekwaamheid --- Filosofie --- Will. --- Will --- Philosophy. --- Social aspects. --- Volonté --- Philosophy --- Social aspects --- Philosophie --- Aspect social --- Volonté --- Feminism --- Oudheid --- China --- Romeinse Rijk --- Hellenisme --- Griekenland --- Hellas --- Film --- Literatuur --- Muziek --- Schilderkunst --- Tekenkunst --- Vlaanderen --- Vlaams --- Emigratie --- Vrouw --- Will - Philosophy --- Will - Social aspects --- Cetanā --- Conation --- Volition --- Ethics --- Psychology --- Self

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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.

Feminist theory. --- Postmodernism. --- 165.76 --- 396 --- 396 Feminisme. Vrouwenbeweging. Vrouw en maatschappij --- Feminisme. Vrouwenbeweging. Vrouw en maatschappij --- 165.76 Postmodernisme. Poststructuralisme. Post-modernisme. Post-structuralisme --- Postmodernisme. Poststructuralisme. Post-modernisme. Post-structuralisme --- Feminist theory --- Postmodernism --- Post-modernism --- Postmodernism (Philosophy) --- Arts, Modern --- Avant-garde (Aesthetics) --- Modernism (Art) --- Philosophy, Modern --- Post-postmodernism --- Feminism --- Feminist philosophy --- Feminist sociology --- Theory of feminism --- Philosophy --- 396 Feminism. Women's movement. Woman and society --- Feminism. Women's movement. Woman and society --- Social Sciences --- Sociology