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Do you think that trying to change things at a university by complying with the procedures theyve laid down is always likely to be a losing game?AHMEDFormal complaints can sound just like the masters tools—bureaucratic.first as professor of womens studies at Lancaster University and then as professor of race and cultural studies and director of the Center for Feminist Research at Goldsmiths.
or vandalizing it?AHMEDThere are a few different instances of what we might call sabotage in the book.but the university was able to use the policy—which was about articulating racism in the institution—as evidence of how good it was at race equality.It wasnt that I didnt experience the other side of academia—the narrowing of what counts as knowledge.
The stories Ahmed tells will be familiar to anyone who has attempted to seek redress (or merely recognition) from an institution trained against them.affect theory—which is not to say its not interesting to sit around and talk about affect theory! But it was a different set of conversations that together felt like an emergency.
or the institution thats hosting the event is the institution in which the thing happened—theres a restriction on what you can say about what went on.
Lorde talked about writing that poem after stopping the car because she heard about the acquittal of a white police officer for the murder of a Black child.Fresh off saving a soccer team visiting Thailand with a tiny submarine.
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