Complaint! / Sara Ahmed.
| Author/creator | Ahmed, Sara, 1969- author. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | Durham : Duke University Press, [2021] |
| Description | 1 online resource (xii, 359 pages) : illustrations |
| Supplemental Content | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction: Hearing complaint -- Institutional mechanics. Mind the gap! Policies, procedures, and other nonperformatives -- On being stopped -- The immanence of complaint. In the thick of it -- Occupied -- If these doors could talk? Behind closed doors : complaints and institutional violence -- Holding the door : power, promotion, progression -- Collective conclusions -- Complaint collectives. |
| Abstract | "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 does happen. 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 upon 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. The 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"--Publisher's description. |
| Abstract | "Drawing on oral and written testimonies from academics and students who have made complaints about harassment, bullying, and unequal working conditions at universities, Sara Ahmed examines what we can learn about power from those who complain about abuses of power."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified]: HathiTrust Digital Library. 2022. MiAaHDL |
| Technical details | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Action note | digitized 2022. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve |
| Action note | digitized 2022. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Ahmed, Sara, 1969- Complaint! Durham : Duke University Press, 2021 9781478015093 9781478017714 |
| LCCN | 2021012493 |
| ISBN | 9781478022336 (ebook) |
| ISBN | 1478022337 (ebook) |
| ISBN | (hardcover) |
| ISBN | (hardcover) |
| ISBN | (paperback) |
| ISBN | (paperback) |
| Stock number | 22573/ctv1v7jv7t JSTOR |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |