Ahmed What's the Use?

On the Uses of Use
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4780-0721-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten

Continuing the work she began in The Promise of Happiness and Willful Subjects by taking up a single word and following its historical, intellectual, and political significance, Sara Ahmed explores how use operates as an organizing concept, technology of control, and tool for diversity work.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ahmed, Sara

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Sara Ahmed is an independent scholar and author of Living a Feminist Life and several other books also published by Duke University Press.