Complaint! - Ahmed Sara
Complaint! - Ahmed Sara In Complaint! Drawing on oral and written testimonies from academics and students who have made complaints about harassment, bullying, and unequal working conditions at…
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Complaint! - Ahmed Sara
In Complaint! 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. Sara Ahmed examines what we can learn about power from those who complain about abuses of power.
Ahmed explores how complaints are made behind closed doors and how doors are often closed upon those who complain. To make complaints within institutions is to learn how they work and for whom they work: complaint as feminist pedagogy. 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