Transgression or Stasis? Challenging Foucault in LIS Theory
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Transgression or Stasis? Challenging Foucault in Lis Theory
Michel Foucault (1926–84) is a primary thinker informing the construction of a critical theory of library and information science (LIS), or librarianship. He is widely cited and is adapted in various ways that focus on LIS forms of power, discourse, and so on. Others have addressed Foucault’s topics, but he remains central. Librarianship has taken up a prior challenge to more fully explore his ...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Library Quarterly
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0024-2519,1549-652X
DOI: 10.1086/512954