Critical Theory for Library and Information Science (eBook, PDF)

Exploring the Social from Across the Disciplines
Redaktion: Leckie, Gloria J.; Buschman, John E.; Given, Lisa M.

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Produktbeschreibung

This text provides an overview of major critical theorists from across disciplines-including the humanities, social sciences, and education-that discusses the importance of these critical perspectives for the advancement of LIS research and scholarship.

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 audience, and to give insights into how such theory can be incorporated into actual LIS research and practice.

This book consists of chapters on individual critical theorists ranging from Aglietta to Habermas to Spivak, written by an international group of library and information science scholars. Each chapter provides an overview of the theoretical stance and contributions of the theorist, as well as relevant critical commentary. This book will be particularly valuable as a reference text of core readings for those pursuing doctoral or masters level degrees in LIS.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781591589402
• Artikelnr.: 38325664

Autorenporträt

Gloria J. Leckie is associate professor and LIS program coordinator in the faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada. Lisa M. Given is professor in the School of Library and Information Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. She is editor of The Sage Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods. John E. Buschman is associate university librarian for collections development, preservation, and scholarly communication at Georgetown University, Washington, DC.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Necessity for Theoretically Informed Critique in Library
and Information Science (LIS) Gloria Leckie and John Buschman 1. Michel
Aglietta and Regulation Theory Siobhan Stevenson 2. Roland Barthes: On
Semiology and Taxonomy Hans Dam Christensen 3. Roy Bhaskar's Critical
Realism John M. Budd 4. Social Capital, Symbolic Violence, and Fields of
Cultural Production: Pierre Bourdieu and Library and Information Science
Lisa Hussey 5. Beyond a Signpost for Resistance: The Promise of Michel de
Certeau's Practices of Everyday Life for LIS Scholarship Paulette Rothbauer
6. Michel Foucault: Discourse, Power/Knowledge, and the Battle for Truth
Michael R. Olsson 7. Deconstructing the Library with Jacques Derrida:
Creating Space for the "Other" in Bibliographic Description and
Classification Joseph Deodato 8. Transformative Library Pedagogy and
Community-Based Libraries: A Freirean Perspective Martina Riedler and
Mustafa Yunus Eryaman 9. Psychoanalysis as Critique in the Works of Freud,
Lacan, and Deleuze and Guattari Ronald E. Day and Andrew J. Lau 10. Anthony
Giddens' Influence on Library and Information Science Howard Rosenbaum 11.
The Public Library as a Space for Democratic Empowerment: Henry Giroux,
Radical Democracy, and Border Pedagogy Mustafa Yunus Eryaman 12. Hegemony,
Historic Blocs, and Capitalism: Antonio Gramsci in Library and Information
Science Douglas Raber 13. The Social as Fundamental and a Source of the
Critical: Jürgen Habermas John E. Buschman 14. Martin Heidegger's Critique
of Informational Modernity Ronald E. Day 15. Bruno Latour: Documenting
Human and Nonhuman Associations Will Wheeler 16. Jean Lave's Practice
Theory Sanna Talja 17. Henri Lefebvre and Spatial Dialectics Gloria J.
Leckie and Lisa M. Given 18. Herbert Marcuse: Liberation, Utopia, and
Revolution Ajit Pyati 19. Chantal Mouffe's Theory of Agonistic Pluralism
and Its Relevance for Library and Information Science Research Joacim
Hansson 20. Antonio Negri on Information, Empire, and Commonwealth Nick
Dyer-Witheford 21. Ferdinand de Saussure: Duality Paul Solomon 22.
Investigating the Textually Mediated Work of Institutions: Dorothy E.
Smith's Sociology for People Rosamund K. Stooke 23. Gayatri Chakravorty
Spivak: Deconstructionist, Marxist, Feminist, Postcolonialist Hope A. Olson
and Melodie J. Fox Index About the Editors and Contributors