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_aWhat's the use? : _bon the uses of use _cby Sara Ahmed |
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_aDurham : _bDuke University Press, _c©2019 |
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_axiv, 281 p. : _bill ; _c24 cm |
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500 | _aThis book Includes bibliographical references and an index. | ||
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_tA useful archive _t -- Using things _t -- The biology of use and disuse _t -- Use as technique _t -- Use and the university _t -- Queer use. |
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520 | _a"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 way of reanimating the project of diversity work as the ordinary and painstaking work of opening up institutions to those who have historically been excluded from them"-- | ||
650 | 0 | _aUtilitarianism | |
650 | 0 | _aEducation, Higher | |
650 | 0 | _aUniversities and colleges | |
650 | 0 | _aQueer theory. | |
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_iOnline version: _aAhmed, Sara, 1969- _tWhat's the use? _dDurham : 2019. _z9781478007210 _w(DLC) 2019981231 |
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