Sara Ahmed Quotes on Politics
Sara Ahmed's The Cultural Politics of Emotion (2004), Queer Phenomenology (2006), Living a Feminist Life (2017), and Complaint! (2021) develop a distinctive feminist phenomenology of how power, race, and sexuality structure the embodied orientations through which subjects inhabit their social worlds. The institutional politics of the diversity work Ahmed has herself participated in — and resigned from — frames the analysis: the genuine work of feminist and anti-racist transformation, Ahmed argues, is continually deflected by institutional procedures that make the appearance of change a substitute for change. Ahmed's more recent work continues to integrate phenomenological description with the analysis of the everyday politics of academic and institutional life.
Quotes
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Attributed to Sara Ahmed:
“When you expose a problem, you pose a problem.”
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Attributed to Sara Ahmed:
“Citation is a feminist memory.”
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Attributed to Sara Ahmed:
“Sometimes a feminist killjoy is what a happy table needs.”
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Attributed to Sara Ahmed:
“Privilege is an energy-saving device; it conserves the will of those who already get to choose.”
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Attributed to Sara Ahmed:
“To live a feminist life is to make the world feminism makes possible.”