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but then I realize I don't actually want to share it with anyone who doesn't want to be changed by it. This might be due to a narrower definition of "complainant" in the UK legal system compared to the American one, but I couldn't help but wonder about the choice as the book obliquely touched on the semantic difference between "complainant" and "complainer" and how these words are elided in characterizing a complainant. I just began this book, so maybe it'll be addressed, but what Ahmed downplays so far is that in the context of U. There was a lot of media coverage of your departure from academia, but I’m curious to know more about your early relationship to it. Some months have passed since Harvard’s letter scandal, one that captivated our attention because of recurring predatorial behaviours, professorial networks that sustain power and the role of ‘star scholars’.

A must read for administrators and faculty interested in equitable and necessary change in any institution. It is a fundamentally life-affirming task to build institutions that are not dependent on the diminishment of the life-capacities of others.I became interested in “the table” in Husserl’s philosophy, which was only a passing reference for him. If I wanted to stay in the department, he suggested, I would have to find a way to ‘submit’ in the least humiliating way for myself.

Through the collective, you can assemble and laugh and eat and drink, and remind yourself that the institution isn’t everything. In Chapter Seven, other contributors wrote ‘Collective Conclusions’, detailing their first collaboration on a report on their department which documented the sexualisation and abuses of powers they witnessed or experienced during their studies (264).Complaints follow a particular procedural pathway, and they are filed and placed in a record, a record that is not only indicative of what happens to a person but also what happens in institutions (38) – or what can be considered the ‘phenomenology of the institution’ (41). On Twitter, I saw scholars proclaiming the need to purge letter signatories from their citational practices, a statement that I find gestures to an individual response and practice rather than a structural one. There was some connection between the loosening of my writing style—trying to get at the affect and the sound of the thing I was describing—and feeling more directly connected to readers. I understand this decision, but this made it much more confusing to track the same complaint across multiple chapters, which is often necessary. And, of course, Ahmed’s work was in constant circulation, which I find both encouraging as much as it raises suspicion.