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What's the Use?: On the Uses of Use

by Sara Ahmed

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • 15 x 22.7 x 1.6 cm

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In What's the Use? Sara Ahmed continues the work she began in The Promise of Happiness and Willful Subjects by taking up a single word-in this case, use-and following it around. She shows how use became associated with life and strength in nineteenth-century biological and social thought and considers how utilitarianism offered a set of educational techniques for shaping individuals by directing them toward useful ends. Ahmed also explores how spaces become restricted to some uses and users, with specific reference to universities. She notes, however, the potential for queer use: how things can be used in ways that were not intended or by those for whom they were not intended. Ahmed posits queer use as a way of reanimating the project of diversity work as the ordinary and painstaking task of opening up institutions to those who have historically been excluded.
What's the Use?: On the Uses of Use and The Promise of Happiness
The Promise of HappinessWhat's the Use?: On the Uses of Use

  • Author

    Sara Ahmed

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Duke University Press

  • Published

    October 2019

  • Weight

    409g

  • Dimensions

    15 x 22.7 x 1.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9781478006503

  • ISBN-10

    1478006501

  • Eden Code

    5140355

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