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Narrative Expansions - Interpreting Decolonisation in Academic Libraries (Paperback)
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Narrative Expansions - Interpreting Decolonisation in Academic Libraries (Paperback)
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The demand to decolonise the curriculum has moved from a protest
movement at the margins to the centre of many institutions, as
reflected by its inclusion in policies and strategies and numerous
initiatives in libraries and archives that have responded to the
call, and are critically examining their own historic legacies and
practices to support institutional and societal change. Narrative
Expansions: Interpreting Decolonisation in Academic Libraries
explores the ways in which academic libraries are working to
address the historic legacies of colonialism, in the context of
decolonising the curriculum and the university. It acknowledges and
explores the tensions and complexities around the use of the term
decolonisation, how it relates to other social justice aims and
approaches, including critical librarianship, and what makes this
work specific to decolonisation. The book is international in
scope, and considers the contextual nature of decolonisation, with
discussion of the impacts of settler colonialism, and post-colonial
contexts with authors from Canada, the United States and Kenya, as
well as universities and the British Library in the UK. Split into
two sections, the book first addresses experiential contexts,
discussing the environment in which the academic library is
enmeshed: legacy knowledge systems, the neo-liberal university, the
pervasive Whiteness of the higher education sector, the global
publishing industry – how these structures are constitutive of
coloniality and how they can be challenged. It then brings together
theory and practice featuring case studies interpreting what it
means to 'decolonise' in information literacy, collection
management, inclusive spaces, LIS education, research methods and
knowledge production through the lens of critical pedagogy,
critical information literacy and Critical Race Theory (CRT). The
book also addresses the impact and implications of the Whiteness of
university library staffing. Bringing together the theory and
practice of an area of critical concern to the academy, this book
is an important reference for academic librarians, educators and
researchers in LIS, education and sociology.
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