In this groundbreaking work, Sara Ahmed demonstrates how queer studies can put phenomenology to productive use. Focusing on the \u201corientation\u201d aspect of \u201csexual orientation\u201d and the \u201corient\u201d in \u201corientalism,\u201d Ahmed examines what it means for bodies to be situated in space and time. Bodies take shape as they move through the world directing themselves toward or away from objects and others. Being \u201corientated\u201d means feeling at home, knowing where one stands, or having certain objects within reach. Orientations affect what is proximate to the body or what can be reached. A queer phenomenology, Ahmed contends, reveals how social relations are arranged spatially, how queerness disrupts and reorders these relations by not following the accepted paths, and how a politics of disorientation puts other objects within reach, those that might, at first glance, seem awry. Ahmed proposes that a queer phenomenology might investigate not only how the concept of orientation is informed by phenomenology but also the orientation of phenomenology itself. Thus she reflects on the significance of the objects that appear\u2014and those that do not\u2014as signs of orientation in classic phenomenological texts such as Husserl\u2019s Ideas. In developing a queer model of orientations, she combines readings of phenomenological texts\u2014by Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Fanon\u2014with insights drawn from queer studies, feminist theory, critical race theory, Marxism, and psychoanalysis. Queer Phenomenology points queer theory in bold new directions.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In this groundbreaking work, Sara Ahmed demonstrates how queer studies can put phenomenology to productive use. Focusing on the \u201corientation\u201d aspect of \u201csexual orientation\u201d and the \u201corient\u201d in \u201corientalism,\u201d Ahmed examines what it means for bodies to be situated in space and time. Bodies take shape as they move through the world directing themselves toward…<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":5473,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[48,47],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-5472","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-akademik-yayinlar","product_cat-kitaplar","first","outofstock","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"yoast_head":"\n