02027cam a2200325 i 4500 on1083465883 OCoLC ta 210517s2019 ncua b 001 0 eng 2019010882 9781478006503 (paperback) 1478006501 (paperback) 9781478005841 (hardcover) 147800584X (hardcover) (OCoLC)1083465883 (OCoLC)1083467074 B843 .A364 2019 Ahmed, Sara, 1969- What's the use? : on the uses of use / Sara Ahmed. What is the use? Durham : Duke University Press, 2019. xiv, 281 p. : ill. Includes bibliographical references (pages [257]-270) and index. A useful archive -- Using things -- The biology of use and disuse -- Use as technique -- Use and the university -- Queer use. "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"-- Utilitarianism Philosophy 19th century. Education, Higher Social aspects. Universities and colleges Sociological aspects. Queer theory. lcc BK 0 0 0 0 PNLIB PNLIB GEN 2021-06-17 B843 .A364 2019 PNLIB21061819 2021-06-17 2021-06-17 BK 2006 2006