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001			on1083465883
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008			210517s2019 ncua b 001 0 eng
010			_a 2019010882
020			_a9781478006503 (paperback)
020			_a1478006501 (paperback)
020			_a9781478005841 (hardcover)
020			_a147800584X (hardcover)
035			_a(OCoLC)1083465883 _z(OCoLC)1083467074
050			_aB843 _b.A364 2019
100	1		_aAhmed, Sara, _d1969-
245	1	0	_aWhat's the use? : _bon the uses of use / _cSara Ahmed.
246	1		_aWhat is the use?
260			_aDurham : _bDuke University Press, _c2019.
300			_axiv, 281 p. : _bill.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [257]-270) and index.
505	0		_aA useful archive -- Using things -- The biology of use and disuse -- Use as technique -- Use and the university -- Queer use.
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		4	_aUtilitarianism _xPhilosophy _y19th century.
650		4	_aEducation, Higher _xSocial aspects.
650		4	_aUniversities and colleges _xSociological aspects.
650		4	_aQueer theory.
942			_2lcc _cBK
999			_c2006 _d2006