Name: Complaint!
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Author: Sara Ahmed
ISBN: 9781478017714

Type

Physical Book

Author

Sara Ahmed

Publisher

Duke University Press Books

Year

2021

Language

English

Pages

372

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781478017714

Synopsis "Complaint! "

In Complaint! Sara Ahmed examines what we can learn about power from those who complain about abuses of power. Drawing on oral and written testimonies from academics and students who have made complaints about harassment, bullying, and unequal working conditions at universities, Ahmed explores the gap between what is supposed to happen when complaints are made and what actually happens. To make complaints within institutions is to learn how they work and for whom they work: complaint as feminist pedagogy. Ahmed explores how complaints are made behind closed doors and how doors are often closed on those who complain. To open these doors---to get complaints through, keep them going, or keep them alive---Ahmed emphasizes, requires forming new kinds of collectives. This book offers a systematic analysis of the methods used to stop complaints and a powerful and poetic meditation on what complaints can be used to do. Following a long lineage of Black feminist and feminist of color critiques of the university, Ahmed delivers a timely consideration of how institutional change becomes possible and why it is necessary.

Sara Ahmed

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Sara Ahmed (nacida en 1969) es una académica y escritora británico-australiana, experta en feminismo, teoría queer, teoría poscolonial y teoría del afecto, conocida por su concepto de "feminista aguafiestas", que denuncia la discriminación en instituciones, y por renunciar a su puesto en la Universidad de Goldsmiths en protesta por el acoso sexual, siendo una figura clave en el análisis de la felicidad, la queja y la identidad a través de lentes críticos.

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