Critical theory for library and information science : exploring the social from across the disciplines Michel Aglietta and regulation theory Siobhan Stevenson Roland Barthes : on semiology and taxonomy Hans Dam Christensen Roy Bhaskars 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 Certeaus 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 Heideggers critique of informational modernity Ronald E. Day Bruno Latour: documenting human and non human associations Will Weeler Jean Laves 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 Mouffes 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