Ahmed Sara Ahmed

Queer Phenomenology (eBook, PDF)

Orientations, Objects, Others

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Produktbeschreibung

In this groundbreaking work, Sara Ahmed demonstrates how queer studies can put phenomenology to productive use. Focusing on the "e;orientation"e; aspect of "e;sexual orientation"e; and the "e;orient"e; in "e;orientalism,"e; Ahmed examines what it means for bodies to be situated in space and time. Bodies take shape as they move through the world directing themselves toward or away from objects and others. Being "e;orientated"e; means feeling at home, knowing where one stands, or having certain objects within reach. Orientations affect what is proximate to the body or what can be reached. A queer phenomenology, Ahmed contends, reveals how social relations are arranged spatially, how queerness disrupts and reorders these relations by not following the accepted paths, and how a politics of disorientation puts other objects within reach, those that might, at first glance, seem awry.Ahmed proposes that a queer phenomenology might investigate not only how the concept of orientation is informed by phenomenology but also the orientation of phenomenology itself. Thus she reflects on the significance of the objects that appear-and those that do not-as signs of orientation in classic phenomenological texts such as Husserl's Ideas. In developing a queer model of orientations, she combines readings of phenomenological texts-by Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Fanon-with insights drawn from queer studies, feminist theory, critical race theory, Marxism, and psychoanalysis. Queer Phenomenology points queer theory in bold new directions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822388074
• Artikelnr.: 54918695

Autorenporträt

Sara Ahmed is Professor of Race and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Her books include The Cultural Politics of Emotion; Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality; and Differences that Matter: Feminist Theory and Postmodernism.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowlegments ix
Introduction: Find Your Way 1
1. Orientations Toward Objects 25
2. Sexual Orientation 65
3. The Orient and Other Others 109
Conclusion: Disorientation and Queer Objects 157
Notes 181
References 203
Index 227