Sara Ahmed Quotes on Knowledge
Sara Ahmed is a British-Australian feminist philosopher and independent scholar, formerly professor at Goldsmiths, University of London, whose work has shaped contemporary feminist phenomenology, queer theory, and the sociology of institutions. This page collects quotes attributed to Sara Ahmed on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Sara Ahmed:
“Citation is a feminist memory.”
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“We learn about worlds when they do not accommodate us. Not being accommodated can be pedagogy. We generate ideas through the struggles we have to be in the world; we come to question worlds when we are in question. When a question becomes a place you reside in, everything can be thrown into question: explanations you might have handy that allow you to make sense or navigate your way through unfamiliar as well as familiar landscapes no longer work.”
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“The exposure of violence is perceived by the privileged as the origin of violence.”
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“To point out harassment is to be viewed as the harasser; to point out oppression is to be viewed as oppressive.”
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“Jokiness allows a constant trivializing: as if by joking someone is suspending judgment on what is being said. She didn’t mean anything by it; lighten up. A killjoy knows from experience: when people keep making light of something, something heavy is going on”
p. 29