Speaking and Being Hardcover – May 5, 2022 by Kübra Gümüşay
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Language opens up our world, and in the same instant, limits it. What does it mean to exist in a language that was never meant for you to speak? Why are we missing certain words? How can we talk about our communal problems without fuelling them? What does it actually mean to speak freely?
As a writer and activist fighting for equality, Kübra Gümüşay has been thinking about these questions for many years. In this book she explores how language shapes our thinking and determines our politics. She shows how people become invisible as individuals when they are always seen as part of a group, and the way those in the minority often have to expend energy cleaning up the messy thinking of others. But she also points to how we might shape conversations to allow for greater ambiguity and individuality, how arguments might happen in a space of learning and vulnerability without sacrificing principles - how we might all be able to speak freely.
Speaking and Being Hardcover – May 5, 2022 by Kübra Gümüşay
KÜBRA GÜMÜŞAY
Gümüşay is a bestselling author, speaker and founder of award winning organisations and campaigns. She is currently a fellow at The New Institute, researching just futures, real utopias and politics of imagination.She is the author of the bestselling book “Sprache § Sein” (“Speaking and Being” to be published in May 2022), host of the talk series “Utopia Talks” at Thalia Theater in Hamburg and founder of several award winning campaigns and associations – most recently eeden, a feminist co-creation space in Hamburg (selected as „Kultur- und Kreativpiloten Deutschland“ in 2019), and future_s, a feminist research- and advocacy organisation for desirable futures. In 2018, Forbes Magazine selected her as one of “30 under 30” in Europe. In 2021 she was recipient of the Tarabya Artist in Residency Fellowship of the German Kulturakademie. In 2022/3, she was a Senior Mercator Fellow at the Centre for Research in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CRASSH), Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence and a Visiting Fellow at Jesus College, University of Cambridge. In 2023/4 she is fellow at The New Institute in Hamburg, researching just futures, real utopias and the politics of imagination.
Publisher: Profile Books (May 5, 2022)
Language: English
Hardcover: 240 pages
ISBN-10: 1788168496
ISBN-13: 978-1788168496
Item Weight: 10.6 ounces
Dimensions: 5.43 x 1.1 x 7.95 inchesCivil Rights & Liberties (Books)
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