Sara Ahmed

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Sara Ahmed (born August 30, 1969 ) is a British-Australian scientist whose focus is on the intersections of feminist theory , queer theory , critical race theory and postcolonialism .

Life

Ahmed was born in Salford , England. Her father is Pakistani and her mother is English and she migrated with her family to Adelaide , Australia in the early 1970s . Key themes in her work such as migration, orientation, difference, foreignness and identity relate to these early experiences. She completed her undergraduate degree from Adelaide University and her PhD from Cardiff University's Center for Critical and Cultural Theory . Ahmed was at the Institute for Women's Studies at Lancaster University from 1994 to 2004 and is a former director of the institute. Sara Ahmed was appointed to the Department of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths College, University of London in 2004 . She was the founding director of the Center for Feminist Research, which was set up to “ consolidate Goldsmiths' feminist histories and to help shape feminist futures at Goldsmiths. Ahmed resigned from her position in 2016 to respond to allegations of sexual harassment by students against teachers at Goldsmiths and to protest against this culture of sexual harassment. She said in January 2017 that she would work as a freelance scientist and author in the future. Ahmed was also the Laurie New Jersey Chair in Women's Studies at Rutgers University in Spring 2009 and was the Diane Middlebrook and Carl Djerassi Professor in Gender Studies at Cambridge University in Lent in 2013, where she completed her research on "Willful Women: Feminism and a History of Will ". She gave the keynote address at the National Women's Studies Association's annual meeting in 2015. Her blog, which she continues to update, is called feministkilljoys .

Ahmed lives with her partner, Sociology Professor Sarah Franklin, in a small village in Cambridgeshire.

job

Sara Ahmed has been repeatedly described as an excellent writer. A reviewer of her work commented: “Few academic writers working in the UK context today can match Sara Ahmed in her prolific output, and fewer still can maintain the consistently high level of her theoretical explorations.” (“Few academic authors in the context of the United Kingdoms can hold a candle to Sara Ahmed in terms of output, even fewer can reach the consistently high level of their theoretical explanations. ")

Ahmed has written ten monographs:

  • Differences that Matter: Feminist Theory and Postmodernism. 1998.
  • Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality. 2000.
  • The Cultural Politics of Emotion. 2004, second edition 2014.
  • Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others. 2006.
  • The Promise of Happiness. 2010. (published in German: "The promise of happiness: a feminist cultural criticism". Unrast, 2018)
  • Vithetenus Hegemoni. 2011 (Swedish. English translation: The Hegemony of Whiteness)
  • On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life. 2012.
  • Willful subjects. 2014.
  • Living a Feminist Life. 2017 (published in German: "Feminist life! Manifesto for spoilers". Unrast, 2017)
  • What's the Use: On the Uses of Use . 2019

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ahmed, Sara, 1969– . Library of Congress. Retrieved on January 16, 2015: "data sheet (Ahmed, Sara; b. 08-30-69)"
  2. ↑ Katy Sian: Conversations in Postcolonial Thought . Palgrave, London 2014, ISBN 978-1-137-46565-8 , pp. 17-18 .
  3. ^ Differences That Matter . 1998.
  4. ^ People - Center for Gender and Womens' Studies, Lancaster University, UK . Retrieved September 26, 2016.
  5. ^ Center for Feminist Research . Retrieved September 26, 2016.
  6. ↑ London university professor quits over sexual harassment of female students by staff . Retrieved January 21, 2017.
  7. ^ Sara Ahmed: Feministkilljoys .
  8. ↑ Spring Newsletter 2009 (PDF)
  9. ^ Cambridge Gender Studies .
  10. ^ Anson Koch-Rein: NWSA Conference 2015 . November 9th, 2015. Archived from the original on October 14th, 2016. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 22, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ansonkochrein.wordpress.com
  11. ^ Sara Ahmed: feministkilljoys . wordpress.org. Retrieved March 16, 2017.
  12. ^ Sara Ahmed: Out and About . wordpress.org. Retrieved March 16, 2017.
  13. ^ Professor Sarah Franklin | Christs College Cambridge. Retrieved July 5, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Bio. Retrieved July 5, 2020 (American English).
  15. ↑ Margrit Shildrick: Review, Queer Phenomenology . In: International Journal of Philosophical Studies . 17, No. 4, 2009.
  16. ^ Books. Retrieved July 5, 2020 (American English).
  17. ↑ Katrin Gottschalk: "That feminism makes you happy was never the point" . In: The daily newspaper: taz . June 29, 2018, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 11 ( taz.de [accessed June 29, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Ahmed, Sara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-Australian scientist
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1969