Critical theory for library and information science
Subtitle: exploring the social from across the disciplines
By: Gloria J. Leckie, Lisa M. Given, and John E. Buschman, editors
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9781591589389; 9781591589402
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Michel Aglietta and regulation theory / Siobhan Stevenson; title: Roland Barthes : on semiology and taxonomy / Hans Dam Christensen; title: Roy Bhaskar's critical realism / John M. Budd; title: Social capital, symbolic violence, and fields of cultural production : Pierre Bourdieu and library and information science / Lisa Hussey; title: Beyond a signpost for resistance : the promise of Michel de Certeau's practices of everyday life for LIS scholarship / Paulette Rothbauer; title: Michel Foucault : discourse, power/knowledge, and the battle for truth / Michael Olsson; title: Psychoanalysis as critique in the works of Freud, Lacan, and Deleuze and Guattari / Ronald E. Day and Andrew J. Lau; title: Transformative library pedagogy and community-based libraries : a Freirean perspective / Martina Riedler and Mustafa Yunus Eryaman; title: Anthony Giddens' influence on library and information science / Howard Rosenbaum; title: The public library as a space for democratic empowerment : Henry Giroux, radical democracy, and border pedagogy / Mustafa Yunus Eryaman; title: Hegemony, historic blocs, and capitalism : Antonio Gramsci in library and information science / Douglas Raber; title: The social as fundamental and a source of the critical : Jürgen Habermas / John Buschman; title: Martin Heidegger's critique of informational modernity / Ronald E. Day; title: Bruno Latour : documenting human and non-human associations / Will Wheeler; title: Jean Lave's practice theory / Sanna Talja; title: Henri Lefebvre and spatial dialectics / Gloria J. Leckie and Lisa M. Given; title: Herbert Marcuse : liberation, utopia, and revolution / Ajit Pyati; title: Chantal Mouffe's theory of agonistic pluralism and its relevance for library and information science research / Joacim Hansson; title: Antonio Negri on information, empire, and commonwealth / Nick Dyer-Witheford; title: Ferdinand de Saussure : duality / Paul Solomon; title: Investigating the textually-mediated work of institutions : Dorothy E. Smithś sociology for people / Rosamund K. Stooke; title: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak : deconstructionist, Marxist, feminist, postcolonialist / Hope A. Olson and Melodie J. Fox.