Name: What's the Use?: On the Uses of Use
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Author: Sara Ahmed
ISBN: 9781478005841

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

Type

Physical Book

Author

Sara Ahmed

Publisher

Duke University Press

Year

2019

Language

English

Pages

296

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.4 x 15.7 x 2.0 cm

Weight

0.52 kg.

ISBN13

9781478005841

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

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Sara Ahmed (nacida en 1969) es una académica y escritora británico-australiana, experta en feminismo, teoría queer, teoría poscolonial y teoría del afecto, conocida por su concepto de "feminista aguafiestas", que denuncia la discriminación en instituciones, y por renunciar a su puesto en la Universidad de Goldsmiths en protesta por el acoso sexual, siendo una figura clave en el análisis de la felicidad, la queja y la identidad a través de lentes críticos.

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