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Examining the relationship between strangers, embodiment and community, Strange Encounters challenges the assumptions that the stranger is simply anybody we do not recognize and instead proposes that he or she is socially constructued as somebody we already know. Using feminist and postcolonial theory this book examines the impact of multiculturalism and globalization on embodiment and community whilst considering the ethical and political implication of its critique for post-colonial feminism. A diverse range of texts are analyzed which produce the figure of 'the stranger', showing that it has alternatively been expelled as the origin of danger - such as in neighbourhood watch, or celebrated as the origin of difference - as in multiculturalism. The author argues that both of these standpoints are problematic as they involve 'stranger fetishism'; they assume that the stranger 'has a life of its own'.

#SBIB:39A6 --- #SBIB:309H023 --- Etniciteit / Migratiebeleid en -problemen --- Interculturele en internationale communicatie --- Feminist theory. --- Immigrants. --- Intercultural communication. --- Minorities. --- Strangers. --- Feminist theory --- Immigrants --- Intercultural communication --- Minorities --- Strangers --- Persons --- Ethnic minorities --- Foreign population --- Minority groups --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Discrimination --- Ethnic relations --- Majorities --- Plebiscite --- Race relations --- Segregation --- Cross-cultural communication --- Communication --- Culture --- Cross-cultural orientation --- Cultural competence --- Multilingual communication --- Technical assistance --- Emigrants --- Foreign-born population --- Foreigners --- Migrants --- Aliens --- Feminism --- Feminist philosophy --- Feminist sociology --- Theory of feminism --- Anthropological aspects --- Philosophy --- Immigrés --- Minorités --- Communication interculturelle --- Etrangers --- Théorie féministe

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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

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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

Abuse of administrative power. --- Bullying in the workplace. --- Corporate culture --- EDUCATION / Higher. --- Harassment. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies. --- Sexual harassment in education. --- Sexual harassment in universities and colleges --- Sexual harassment in universities and colleges. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Prevention. --- Sexual harassment in education --- Bullying in the workplace --- Harassment --- Abuse of administrative power --- Abuse of power --- Administrative power, Abuse of --- Excess of power (Administrative law) --- Power, Abuse of --- Administrative discretion --- Administrative law --- Judicial review of administrative acts --- Harassment in the workplace --- Workplace harassment --- Offenses against the person --- Intimidation --- Mobbing, Workplace --- Workplace bullying --- Workplace mobbing --- Work environment --- Sexual harassment in schools --- Education --- Sexual harassment on campus --- Universities and colleges --- Prevention --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Culture, Corporate --- Institutional culture --- Organizational culture --- Corporations --- Organizational behavior --- Business anthropology --- Sociological aspects --- Social psychology --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Higher education --- onderwijs --- onderwijsinstellingen --- universiteiten --- vrouwen --- grensoverschrijdend gedrag --- gender studies --- feminisme --- 37 --- 489 --- Onderwijs --- agressie --- pesten --- Discriminatie --- klachten --- machtsmisbruik --- Hoger onderwijs; algemeen --- Réclamations (procédure administrative) --- Universités --- Excès de pouvoir (droit administratif) --- Harcèlement sexuel dans les universités --- Intimidation dans les écoles --- Complaints (Administrative procedure) --- Aspect social. --- Aspect politique. --- Plaintes (procédure pénale) --- Morale --- Complaints against. --- Social aspects. --- Political aspects. --- klachtenbehandeling --- machtspatronen --- organisatiecultuur --- Féminisme