Critical theory for library and information science : exploring the social from across the disciplines

Book 2010

"The practical application of library and information science is based upon 75 years of critical theory and thought. Therefore, it is essential for students and faculty in LIS to be familiar with the work of a wide range of critical theorists. The aim of Critical Theory for Library and Information Science: Exploring the Social from Across the Disciplines is to provide a comprehensive introduction to the critical theorists important to the LIS aud...

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ISBN:

9781591589389

Description:

xxii, 326 pages ; 26 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Michel Aglietta and regulation theory / Siobhan Stevenson
Roland Barthes : on semiology and taxonomy / Hans Dam Christensen
Roy Bhaskar's critical realism / John M. Budd
Social capital, symbolic violence, and fields of cultural production: Pierre Bourdieu and library and information science / Lisa Hussey
Beyond a signpost for resistance: the promise of Michel de Certeau's practices of everyday life for LIS scholarship / Paulette Rothbauer
Michel Foucault: discourse, power/knowledge, and the battle for truth / Michael Olsson
Psychoanalysis as critique in the works of Freud, Lacan, and Deleuze and Guattari / Ronald E. Day and Andrew J. Lau
Transformative library pedagogy and community-based libraries: a Freirean perspective / Martina Riedler and Mustafa Yunus Eryaman
Anthony Giddens' influence on library and information science / Howard Rosenbaum
The public library as a space for democratic empowerment: Henry Giroux, radical democracy, and border pedagogy / Mustafa Yunus Eryaman
Hgemony, historic blocs, and capitalism: Antonio Gramsci in library and information science / Douglas Raber
The social as fundamental and a source of the critical: Jürgen Habermas / John Buschman
Martin Heidegger's critique of informational modernity / Ronald E. Day
Bruno Latour: documenting human and non-human associations / Will Weeler
Jean Lave's practice theory / Sanna Talja
Henri Lefebvre and spatial dialectics / Gloria J. Leckie and Lisa M. Given
Herbert Marcuse: liberation, utopia, and revolution / Ajit Pyati
Chantal Mouffe's theory of agonistic pluralism and its relevance for library and information science research / Joacim Hansson
Antonio Negri on information, empire, and commonwealth / Nick Dyer-Witheford
Ferdinand de Saussure: duality / Paul Solomon
Investigating the textually-mediated work of institutions: Dorothy E. Smithś sociology for people / Rosamund K. Stooke
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: deconstructionist, Marxist, feminist, postcolonialist / Hope A. Olson and Melodie J. Fox

LCCN:

2010012813

Control Number:

2628841

Other Authors:

Buschman, John
Given, Lisa M
Leckie, Gloria J

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