30DoS 2020 – Day 22

Sci-hub

The first pirate website in the world to provide mass and public access to tens of millions of research papers.

Link to website: https://scihub.to

Mendeley

Mendeley is a reference management tool that can also be used to share reserach papers and connect with other researchers in the network. Mendeley keep track of how many users read the papers you have shared and allows you to share and annotate research papers withing private groups. You can create a library that you can access anytime and generate references, citations and bibliographies in a range of journal styles. Mendeley helps to oraginise and collaborate.

Link to website: https://www.mendeley.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv6HuCYExM

What’s the use by Sarah Ahmed

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.

Link to book: https://www.dukeupress.edu/whats-the-use