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

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Leckie, Gloria J., Given, Lisa M., Buschman, John
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Santa Barbara, Calif. : Libraries Unlimited, [2010]
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Table of 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
  • Deconstructing the library with Jacques Derrida: creating space for the "other" in bibliographic description and classification / Joseph Deodato
  • Transformative library pedagogy and community-based libraries: a Freirean perspective / Martina Riedler and Mustafa Yunus Eryaman
  • Psychoanalysis as critique in the works of Freud, Lacan, and Deleuze and Guattari / Ronald E. Day and Andrew J. Lau
  • 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
  • Hegemony, 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 Wheeler
  • 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.