| Title | From Denial to Shaming |
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| Subtitle | Resentment and Other Stories on Being Critical, Muslim, Person of Colour in Global Academia |
| Contributor | Ahmed Abozaid(author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0508.05 |
| Landing page | http://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0508/chapters/10.11647/obp.0508.05 |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Ahmed Abozaid |
| Publisher | Open Book Publishers |
| Published on | 2026-04-29 |
| Long abstract | This chapter is not about complaining. It is an act that is absolutely nothing to be ashamed of. Instead, this chapter is an attempt to determine the state of denial that precedes the complaining, believing that some of the complaints generate resistance and some generate sorrow. In this chapter, I primarily think about Sara Ahmed’s work on complaining. Yet, I have some comments and observations about Sara Ahmed’s thesis on complaint. This chapter precedes the submerged phase of Sara Ahmed’s (and others’) work. Here, I want to talk about multilayer and intersectional forms of (mis)treatment, injustice, exclusion, and silencing practised by academic and research institutions and individuals within this dirty pool (I do not tend to differentiate between the two as many would like to do). Secondly, I want to reveal how such discourses and practices establish, shape, and manifest the rules of what Sara Ahmed calls the “institutional mechanics” of exclusion, marginalization, injustice, and discrimination, and how individual and collective experiences of denial and resentment are the constitutive factors in the act of complaint. |
| Print length | 14 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
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Ahmed Abozaid (PhD) is an Egyptian political theorist currently based in the United Kingdom. He is a Leverhulme Fellow at the Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge, where he is undertaking an interdisciplinary project on the global history of state violence through a travelling reading of Ibn Khaldun’s political theory. From 2022 to 2024, he served as a Lecturer in International Security at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Southampton. He was also a Fellow at Columbia University between 2021 and 2022. Ahmed has an extensive publication record, including two books in English, nine books in Arabic, and over seventy peer-reviewed journal articles published in multiple languages. His most recent work, “Infinite Debate: Theories of International Relations and the Study of War and Peace,” was published by Qatar University Press in 2025.