What's the Use? : On the Uses of Use

Ahmed, Sara

Duke University Press（2019/10発売）

Duke University Press（2019/10発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 296 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781478006503
• DDC分類 303.33

Full Description

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.

Contents

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