What's the Use?

On the Uses of Use

Sara Ahmed (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

296 Seiten

2019
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-0584-1 (ISBN)

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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.

Sara Ahmed is an independent scholar and author of Living a Feminist Life and several other books also published by Duke University Press.

Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction. A Useful Archive 1
1. Using Things 21
2. The Biology of Use and Disuse 68
3. Use as Technique 103
4. Use and the University 141
Conclusion. Queer Use 197
Notes 231
References 257
Index 271

Erscheinungsdatum	28.09.2019
Zusatzinfo	52 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	544 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-4780-0584-X / 147800584X
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-0584-1 / 9781478005841
Zustand	Neuware