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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Sara Ahmed"”.
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You Have the Body: An Anti-Testimony
… Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others by Sara Ahmed to analyze narrative fractalization, intentional opacity, and queer rhetorical re-orientation in two formally and thematically related works: Precious Rubbish by Kayla E. and Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine. The craft essay …
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Tiny
… of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, David Wojnarowicz, and Sara Ahmed, the resulting dissertation does not make light of death. Rather, it lifts up Antigone as a wise, queer youth convinced she can begin to rearrange the world: away from toxic masculinity and late-stage capitalism, and towards a benevolent …
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Performances of an Able, Academic Mind
… study of emotions articulated by Sara Ahmed. In doing so, I write a project analyzing the ways in which I have been disabled by the academy, as well as enabled at the expense of others attempting to survive within it.</p>
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Trans-masc tits: why not chop them off. Volume 2: the phenomenology of trans-masculine gender flux in performance
… and Amelia Jones, alongside the queer theorists Sara Ahmed and Jack Halberstam, this work applies Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) and Creative Articulations Processing (CAP) as methods of reflection and analysis of the creative process and written embodied accounts of performance …
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"Her organs were a question of the state" reading Adriana Cavarero from the Latin American post-colony
… thinkers like Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Sara Ahmed.</p>
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Made You Look: Moments of encounter with [ambient] advertising in everyday places
… the phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Sara Ahmed and Kristadel McGregor, describing how we inhabit the world. It traces ideas of time through Yi-Fu Tuan, Kitaro Nishida, and Henry Bergson. It explores the construction of ambient advertising through Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. It …
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Women, Azaadi, Shadhinota, Freedom
… subjects. By referencing theorists such as Sara Ahmed, Gayatri Spivak, Michael Rothberg, Rebecca Schneider, I frame my practice within a critical discourse that interrogates institutional complicity and the politics of visibility.</p> <p>Ultimately, this thesis proposes performance as a …
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My hart kry swaar: reconsidering patriarchy through queer abstraction, phenomenology and the haptic
… theorists such as Florian Zitzelsberger, Sara Ahmed, Jack Halberstam, David Getsy, José Esteban Muñoz, Laura Berlant, and Kath Weston to investigate the relational complexities between the self, biological family, and queer chosen family. Both the practical and theoretical components of …
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Desire Lines: An Annotated Screenplay
… feminist and queer theory, including the work of Sara Ahmed, to explore the ways lines of thought and lines of motion operate on set. The chief finding of the thesis is that the IC, in bringing attention and language to scenes that had previously been sites of avoidance and manipulation, can work …
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The Bizarre Bazaar: investigating gendered performance through interactive performance art
… and supported by the research of Azille Coetzee, Sarah Nuttall, Christi van der Westhuizen, and Sara Ahmed, the study argues for the capacity of performance art to reveal and disrupt normative Femininity. This work seeks to create an impactful, interactive art intervention conceptualised through a …
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Octavia Butler's Parables and Black African American Hyper-Empathic Neurodivergent Feminists : On Shame and Solidarity
As renowned scholar and researcher Sara Ahmed (2004; 2015) reminds us, emotions do things to us because they are relational. This dissertation takes aim at one emotion in particular: shame. By recognizing the similarities between us - that we all feel some degree of shame - we nonetheless …
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(Dis)identifying female archetypes in live art
… and ‘lived experience’, particularly the work of Sara Ahmed, Atvar Brah, Teresa de Lauretis, Inderpal Grewal, Caren Kaplan, Doreen Massey, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Elspeth Probyn, Gayatri Spivak and Iris Marion Young.
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Toward feminist aesthetics: feminist provocations to German idealist aesthetics
… dialogues: one between Alexander Baumgarten and Sara Ahmed about aesthetics and happiness, one between María Lugones and Immanuel Kant about play and common sense, and one between Audre Lorde and Friedrich Schiller about feeling, thinking, and the erotic. These dialogues are connected by the …
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Becoming identities: The philosophical subject, intersectionality, and assemblage
… in terms of emphasis on affect as developed by Sara Ahmed, Jasbir Puar, Brian Massumi, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. Here, I insist that this moving subject must be framed through the ethical lens of disability critique, so that we do not accept normative, ableist movement as the lens of …
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Decolonising the body in Jean Rhys’s Voyage in the Dark and Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy
… the theory of “affective embodied encounters” by Sara Ahmed is brought together with the decolonial theory of Édouard Glissant. Building on Glissant’s concept of the “right to opacity”, it is argued that the opaque material body can be a tool of decolonial resistance. In both novels, the Caribbean …
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Thickening Theory: Memoir, Affect, and Fat Feminist Futures
… Garland-Thomson's "misfitting" (2011), and Sara Ahmed's (2006; 2010) work on orientations and affect, this project aims to strengthen fat epistemology and contribute to a fattening of feminist studies which takes seriously the uncomfortable, the ugly, and the irreverent.
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The Right to Access: credit, concrete hope and a new politics of worth in Brazilian community banks
… of affect theory drawn from Lauren Berlant, Sara Ahmed, and Kathleen Stewart, the thesis argues that these financial tools become embedded in broader social practices that reshape daily life and enable new forms of agency. Specifically, it shows how consumption operates as an act of …
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Queer (Dis)locations: Klaus Mann's Early Works and Weimar Homosexual Culture (1919-1933)
… of normative arrangements developed by Sara Ahmed, Judith Butler, Lee Edelman, and José Esteban Muñoz among others, I contend that these texts share an intrinsic concern with what I term ‘queer (dis)locations’. These are sexual positionalities that dislocate heteronormative coordinates …
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The stories we tell ourselves: Joan Didion on the romantic fantasies of reality
… The significance of this is to demonstrate what Sara Ahmed (2010) rationalizes as society's estrangement from happiness in the pursuit of an idealized version of happiness that is only accessible through one's imaginative capacities. Through a literary analysis of Didion's metaphoric prose, I …
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"""The Everyday Affective Life of Racism"": Forms of Racial Melancholia in Early Asian American Literature"
… such as Ann Cvetkovich, Teresa Brennan, and Sara Ahmed. I contend that the forms of this early, supposedly assimilationist Asian American writing reveal alternative ways of being Asian American and show strategies that Viet Thanh Nguyen calls flexible and negotiative. Chapter 1 focuses on …
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