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100	1		_aAhmed, Sara
245	1	0	_aWhat's the use? : _bon the uses of use _cby Sara Ahmed
260			_aDurham : _bDuke University Press, _c©2019
300			_axiv, 281 p. : _bill ; _c24 cm
500			_aThis book Includes bibliographical references and an index.
505	0		_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.
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.
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aAhmed, Sara, 1969- _tWhat's the use? _dDurham : 2019. _z9781478007210 _w(DLC) 2019981231
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