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.
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