Sara Ahmed

Q: What Schools Are Affiliated With Sara Ahmed

Sara Ahmed is affiliated with the following schools: Goldsmiths, University of London, Brunel University London, Lancaster University, Ahmedabad University, University of Adelaide, University of Surrey

Q: What Are Sara Ahmed's Academic Contributions?

Sara Ahmed has made the following academic contributions: Willful Subjects, The Cultural Politics of Emotion, Strange Encounters, Living a Feminist Life

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#63

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#97

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Anthropology

#592

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#820

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Sara Ahmed's Degrees

PhD Women's Studies University of Adelaide
Bachelors English and History University of Adelaide

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According to Wikipedia, Sara Ahmed is a British-Australian writer and scholar whose area of study includes the intersection of feminist theory, lesbian feminism, queer theory, affect theory, critical race theory and postcolonialism. Her seminal work, The Cultural Politics of Emotion, in which she explores the social dimension and circulation of emotions, is recognized as a foundational text in the nascent field of affect theory.

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Sara Ahmed's Published Works

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Published Works

The Cultural Politics of Emotion (2004) (5237)
The Promise of Happiness (2010) (2405)
Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others (2006) (1805)
Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality (2000) (1720)
The Affect Theory Reader (2009) (1599)
Affective Economies (2004) (1426)
A phenomenology of whiteness (2007) (1049)
Living a Feminist Life (2017) (887)
'Declarations of Whiteness: The Non-Performativity of Anti-Racism' (2004) (532)
Collective Feelings (2004) (505)
Home and away (1999) (450)
Uprootings/Regroundings: Questions of Home and Migration (2003) (446)
Queer Phenomenology (2021) (389)
‘You end up doing the document rather than doing the doing’: Diversity, race equality and the politics of documentation (2007) (335)
Orientations: Toward a Queer Phenomenology (2006) (307)
Open Forum Imaginary Prohibitions (2008) (297)
Embodying diversity: problems and paradoxes for Black feminists (2009) (246)
Killing Joy: Feminism and the History of Happiness (2010) (210)
Differences that Matter: Feminist Theory and Postmodernism (1999) (193)
The language of diversity (2007) (191)
Thinking Through the Skin (2001) (177)
Multiculturalism and the Promise of Happiness (2008) (156)
`She'll Wake Up One of These Days and Find She's Turned into a Nigger' (1999) (153)
The Nonperformativity of Antiracism (2006) (147)
Applicant Perspectives During Selection: A Review Addressing “So What?,” “What’s New?,” and “Where to Next?” (2017) (128)
Feminist Killjoys (and Other Willful Subjects) (2012) (119)
Pinning down vulnerability: from narratives to numbers. (2011) (111)
Not in the Mood (2014) (99)
Engendering adaptation to climate variability in Gujarat, India (2009) (94)
This other and other others (2002) (90)
Transformations: Thinking Through Feminism (2005) (89)
Doing Diversity (2006) (82)
Making Feminist Points. (2013) (80)
In the Name of Love (2003) (80)
Testimonial cultures: An introduction (2001) (73)
The Politics of Bad Feeling (2005) (71)
Who Knows? Knowing Strangers and Strangerness (2000) (68)
The politics of fear in the making of worlds (2003) (67)
The Non-Performativity of Anti-Racism (2005) (66)
Problematic Proximities: Or Why Critiques of Gay Imperialism Matter (2011) (64)
What's the Use?: On the Uses of Use (2019) (64)
The Happiness Turn (2008) (56)
Interview with Judith Butler (2016) (56)
Introduction: Sexism - A Problem with a Name (2015) (52)
The Organisation of Hate (2001) (52)
Doing Diversity Work in Higher Education in Australia (2006) (52)
The Politics of Good Feeling (2008) (51)
An Affinity of Hammers (2016) (50)
‘“It's a sun tan, isn't it?”: Auto-biography as an Identificatory Practice' (1997) (50)
Personnel selection in the digital age: a review of validity and applicant reactions, and future research challenges (2019) (49)
Whiteness and the General Will: Diversity Work as Willful Work (1972) (38)
Empowering Rural Women? Policies, Institutions, and Gendered Outcomes in Natural Resources Management (2001) (34)
Applicant Reactions in Saudi Arabia: Organizational Attractiveness and Core‐Self Evaluation (2012) (31)
Re-Imagining Communities (2003) (31)
Willful Parts: Problem Characters or the Problem of Character (2011) (29)
Deconstruction and Law's Other: Towards a Feminist Theory of Embodied Legal Rights (1995) (28)
Introduction: Uprootings/Regroundings: Questions of Home and Migration (2020) (27)
Diverting the Flow: Gender Equity and Water in South Asia (2015) (27)
Beyond Humanism and Postmodernism: Theorizing a Feminist Practice (1996) (26)
Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality (Transformations) (2000) (26)
Happiness and Queer Politics (2009) (23)
Whose Counting? (2000) (21)
Reconstructing womanhood, reconstructing feminism: writings on black women (1997) (21)
'Creating Disturbance: Feminism, Happiness and Affective Differences’ (2010) (21)
Mixed orientations (2014) (17)
Applicant perspectives on employee selection systems (2017) (15)
Phantasies of becoming (the Other (1999) (14)
A Willfulness Archive (2012) (14)
Diversity: Problems and Paradoxes for Black Feminists (2012) (14)
'Happy Futures, Perhaps' (2011) (13)
Intimate Touches: Proximity and Distance in International Feminist Dialogues (1997) (13)
Differences that Matter (1998) (12)
Sustaining peace, re-building livelihoods: The Gujarat Harmony Project (2004) (11)
Moving Spaces (1996) (11)
Introduction: Thinking Through Feminism (2000) (11)
How Not to Do Things with Words (2016) (11)
Engendering organisational practice in NGOs: The case of Utthan (2002) (9)
Rocking the Boat: Women of Colour as Diversity Workers (2018) (9)
Passing Through Hybridity (1999) (8)
Feminist hurt/ feminism hurts (2018) (8)
The Performativity of Disgust (2013) (7)
Thinking Through the Skin (Transformations) (2001) (7)
Being in Question (2017) (6)
Lola Young, Fear of the Dark: ‘Race’, Gender and Sexuality in the Cinema (1996) (6)
Object Lessons, Robyn Wiegman (2012) (5)
Speaking about Racism (2012) (5)
3. Sociable Happiness (2012) (4)
Sonic Contagions: Bird Flu, Bandung, and the Queer Cartographies of MIA (2014) (4)
Chapter 12. Feminist Futures (2008) (4)
The Gendered Context of Vulnerability : Coping / Adapting to Floods in Eastern India (2004) (4)
Doing Diversity Work (2006) (4)
An impossible global justice? Deconstruction and transnational feminism. (2000) (3)
Feminism Is Sensational (2017) (2)
Introduction: Find Your Way (2006) (2)
Race as sedimented history (2015) (2)
Conclusion 1: A Killjoy Survival Kit (2017) (2)
Theorising sexual identification: Exploring the limits of psychoanalytic and postmodern models (1995) (2)
Applicant perspectives during selection: A literature review addressing “So What?”, “What’s New?”, and “Where to Next?” (2017) (2)
The Prison Citizen (2008) (2)
Evaluating the "New York Times'" framing of Islam and Muslims pre- and post-9/11 (2007) (1)
Willfulness as a Style of Politics (2014) (1)
Travelling with Strangers (2021) (1)
The Philippine energy transition (2019) (1)
Feeling differently: Approaches and their politics (2017) (1)
Orientations Toward Objects (2006) (1)
Hvorfor lykke, hvorfor nu? (2016) (1)
Shaping Our Fluid Heritage (2019) (1)
Willfulness and Feminist Subjectivity (2017) (1)
Living the Consequences (2017) (1)
Cross-Country Influence on Applicant Fairness Reactions to Internet-Based Selection Methods? (2018) (1)
Introduction : re-imagining communities. (2003) (1)
Identifications, Gender and Racial Difference: Moving Beyond a Psychoanalytical Account of Subjectivity (1996) (1)
Feminists visions and visionary feminism. Review of Rosi Braidotti's 'Metamorphosis : towards a feminist philosophy of becoming'. (2003) (1)
Conclusion 2: A Killjoy Manifesto (2017) (1)
Lesbian feminism (2019) (0)
Women in the Orient (1996) (0)
Equality and Performance Culture (2012) (0)
Books Received (2007) (0)
Mixed orientations (2014) (0)
The Good Will (2014) (0)
The General Will (2014) (0)
Notes on Contributors (2006) (0)
The Nonperformativity of Antiracism (2021) (0)
The 50 000th RCGP Member (2015) (0)
BOOKS RECEIVED (2007) (0)
Notes on Contributors (2013) (0)
Matter, Affect, AntiNormativity Theory Beyond Dualism (2022) (0)
Flowing Upstream: Contents (2005) (0)
Differences That Matter: Authorship (1998) (0)
The Racial Contract (1999) (0)
Differences That Matter: (Meta)fictions (1998) (0)
Differences That Matter: Introduction: Speaking back (1998) (0)
Conclusion Happiness, Ethics, Possibility (2010) (0)
Flowing Upstream: Glossary (2005) (0)
Female artists and resistance (2014) (0)
Review of Shannon Sullivan's 'Living across and through skins: transactional bodies, pragmatism and feminism'. (2002) (0)
Return as Moodiness (2016) (0)
Longitudinal Assessment of Applicant Reactions in Promotion Context (2018) (0)
Books Received (2000) (0)
Differences That Matter: Rights (1998) (0)
Notes on Contributors (2007) (0)
Conversation on Black British Feminisms (2014) (0)
Book Reviews (2003) (0)
New Technology in Personnel Selection (2018) (0)
Challenging the Flow (2018) (0)
Notes on Contributors (2000) (0)
Applicant reactions to personnel selection procedures: Internet based selection, cross-country differences and promotional procedures (2016) (0)
Flowing Upstream: About the Authors (2005) (0)
On Being Directed (2017) (0)
Introduction: On Arrival (2012) (0)
Flowing Upstream: Resources (2005) (0)
Introduction: Why Happiness, Why Now? (2010) (0)
Reviews (2003) (0)
Notes on Contributors (2000) (0)
Differences That Matter: Conclusion: Events that move us (1998) (0)
Screening and Panel Discussion on the work of Angela Davis, Free Angela and Other Political Prisoners (2013) (0)
Review of Meyda Yegenonglu's 'Colonial fantasies : towards a feminist reading of orentalism'. (2000) (0)
The Orient and Other Others (2006) (0)
Flowing Upstream: Annexure (2005) (0)
Testimonial Cultures: Special Issue of Cultural Values (Journal) (2001) (0)
Introduction: stranger fetishism and post-coloniality (2013) (0)
Flowing Upstream: Preface (2005) (0)
Book reviews (2002) (0)
Trying to Transform (2017) (0)
Commitment as a Nonperformative (2009) (0)
An Untapped Generation: Bringing Millennials Through Your Doors (2017) (0)
Review of Sue Thornham's 'Feminist theory and cultural studies: stories of unsettled relations'. (2003) (0)
Willfulness, Feminism, and the Gendering of Will (2021) (0)
Pelon politiika (The affective politics of fear). (2003) (0)
Notes on contributors (2003) (0)

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