{"product_id":"critical-theory-for-library-and-information-science-exploring-the-social-from-across-the-disciplines-9781591589389","title":"Critical Theory for Library and Information Science: Exploring the Social from Across the Disciplines","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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 \u003ci\u003eCritical Theory for Library and Information Science: Exploring the Social from Across the Disciplines\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: The Necessity for Theoretically Informed Critique in Library and Information Science (LIS) \u003ci\u003eGloria Leckie and John Buschman\u003c\/i\u003e 1. Michel Aglietta and Regulation Theory \u003ci\u003eSiobhan Stevenson\u003c\/i\u003e 2. Roland Barthes: On Semiology and Taxonomy \u003ci\u003eHans Dam Christensen\u003c\/i\u003e 3. Roy Bhaskar's Critical Realism \u003ci\u003eJohn M. Budd\u003c\/i\u003e 4. Social Capital, Symbolic Violence, and Fields of Cultural Production: Pierre Bourdieu and Library and Information Science \u003ci\u003eLisa Hussey\u003c\/i\u003e 5. Beyond a Signpost for Resistance: The Promise of Michel de Certeau's Practices of Everyday Life for LIS Scholarship \u003ci\u003ePaulette Rothbauer\u003c\/i\u003e 6. Michel Foucault: Discourse, Power\/Knowledge, and the Battle for Truth \u003ci\u003eMichael R. Olsson\u003c\/i\u003e 7. Deconstructing the Library with Jacques Derrida: Creating Space for the \"Other\" in Bibliographic Description and Classification \u003ci\u003eJoseph Deodato\u003c\/i\u003e 8. Transformative Library Pedagogy and Community-Based Libraries: A Freirean Perspective \u003ci\u003eMartina Riedler and Mustafa Yunus Eryaman\u003c\/i\u003e 9. Psychoanalysis as Critique in the Works of Freud, Lacan, and Deleuze and Guattari \u003ci\u003eRonald E. Day and Andrew J. Lau\u003c\/i\u003e 10. Anthony Giddens' Influence on Library and Information Science \u003ci\u003eHoward Rosenbaum\u003c\/i\u003e 11. The Public Library as a Space for Democratic Empowerment: Henry Giroux, Radical Democracy, and Border Pedagogy \u003ci\u003eMustafa Yunus Eryaman\u003c\/i\u003e 12. Hegemony, Historic Blocs, and Capitalism: Antonio Gramsci in Library and Information Science \u003ci\u003eDouglas Raber\u003c\/i\u003e 13. The Social as Fundamental and a Source of the Critical: Jürgen Habermas \u003ci\u003eJohn E. Buschman\u003c\/i\u003e 14. Martin Heidegger's Critique of Informational Modernity \u003ci\u003eRonald E. Day\u003c\/i\u003e 15. Bruno Latour: Documenting Human and Nonhuman Associations \u003ci\u003eWill Wheeler\u003c\/i\u003e 16. Jean Lave's Practice Theory \u003ci\u003eSanna Talja\u003c\/i\u003e 17. Henri Lefebvre and Spatial Dialectics \u003ci\u003eGloria J. Leckie and Lisa M. Given\u003c\/i\u003e 18. Herbert Marcuse: Liberation, Utopia, and Revolution \u003ci\u003eAjit Pyati\u003c\/i\u003e 19. Chantal Mouffe's Theory of Agonistic Pluralism and Its Relevance for Library and Information Science Research \u003ci\u003eJoacim Hansson\u003c\/i\u003e 20. Antonio Negri on Information, Empire, and Commonwealth \u003ci\u003eNick Dyer-Witheford\u003c\/i\u003e 21. Ferdinand de Saussure: Duality \u003ci\u003ePaul Solomon\u003c\/i\u003e 22. Investigating the Textually Mediated Work of Institutions: Dorothy E. Smith's Sociology for People \u003ci\u003eRosamund K. Stooke\u003c\/i\u003e 23. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: Deconstructionist, Marxist, Feminist, Postcolonialist \u003ci\u003eHope A. Olson and Melodie J. Fox\u003c\/i\u003e Index About the Editors and Contributors","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing Plc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51770789560663,"sku":"9781591589389","price":58.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781591589389.jpg?v=1758725838","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/critical-theory-for-library-and-information-science-exploring-the-social-from-across-the-disciplines-9781591589389","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}