Sara Ahmed

41.6k citations
78 papers · 16.9k · 14 hit papers · h-index 39

Impact in

  • Gender Studies top 0.02%
    • Gender, Feminism, and Media
    • Gender Diversity and Inequality
    • Gender Roles and Identity Studies
    • Posthumanist Ethics and Activism

Papers in

    • Interdisciplinary Cultural and Social Studies 5
    • Race, History, and American Society 4
    • Critical Race Theory in Education 4
    • Youth Education and Societal Dynamics 3
    • Gender Diversity and Inequality 5

Sara Ahmed

75 papers receiving 14.3k citations

Sara Ahmed's Hit Papers

Living a Feminist Life 2016 · 314 citations
3140+8+17Years since publication10002.0k3.0k

Peers

Sara Ahmed
Comparison fields: 5 of 156
  • Gender Studies 4.1k
  • Cultural Studies 1.9k
  • Sociology and Political Science 9.3k
  • Geography, Planning and Development 1.2k
  • Visual Arts and Performing Arts 766
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The 9 scholars most cited alongside Sara Ahmed, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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1
The Cultural Politics of Emotion
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20143462
2
The Cultural Politics of Emotion
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20132128
3
Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality
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20001291
4
On Being Included
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20121189
5
Queer Phenomenology
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20061154
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Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others
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20061076
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A phenomenology of whiteness
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2007999
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The Promise of Happiness
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2010793
9
Collective Feelings
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2004484
10 1999358
11 2007340
12
Living a Feminist Life
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2016314
13 2006259
14 2007245
15
The Nonperformativity of Antiracism
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2006236
16
Open Forum Imaginary Prohibitions
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2007212
17
Killing Joy: Feminism and the History of Happiness
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2010200
18 2014181
19 2009170
20 2006140

About Sara Ahmed

Sara Ahmed is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Political Science and International Relations and Philosophy, having authored 78 papers that have together received 16.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Posthumanist Ethics and Activism (6 papers), Gender Diversity and Inequality (5 papers), Interdisciplinary Cultural and Social Studies (5 papers), Race, History, and American Society (4 papers), Critical Race Theory in Education (4 papers), Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism (3 papers), Youth Education and Societal Dynamics (3 papers) and Labor Movements and Unions (3 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Gender Studies (4.1k citations), Cultural Studies (1.9k citations), Sociology and Political Science (9.3k citations), Geography, Planning and Development (1.2k citations) and Visual Arts and Performing Arts (766 citations). Sara Ahmed has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Netherlands. Frequent co-authors include Elaine Swan, Oristelle Bonis, Sigrid Schmitz, Jackie Stacey, Anne‐Marie Fortier, Marlène Buchy, Warren Buckland, Thomas Docherty and Scott Wilson. Their work appears in journals such as Feminist Theory, Theory Culture & Society, International Journal of Cultural Studies, Ethnic and Racial Studies and Feminist Legal Studies.

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