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Author Ahmed, Sara, 1969- author.

Title Complaint! / Sara Ahmed
Published Durham : Duke University Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 359 pages) : illustrations
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
Summary "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
"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 Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Sexual harassment in universities and colleges.
Sexual harassment in universities and colleges -- Prevention
Sexual harassment in education.
Universities and colleges -- Complaints against.
Complaints (Administrative procedure) -- Social aspects
Complaints (Administrative procedure) -- Political aspects
Bullying in the workplace.
Harassment.
Abuse of administrative power.
Corporate culture -- Moral and ethical aspects
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies.
EDUCATION / Higher.
Universities and colleges -- Complaints against
Sexual harassment in universities and colleges -- Prevention
Sexual harassment in universities and colleges
Sexual harassment in education
Harassment
Corporate culture -- Moral and ethical aspects
Bullying in the workplace
Abuse of administrative power
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021012493
ISBN 9781478022336
1478022337