Information and Liberation

Information and Liberation PDF Author: Shiraz Durrani
Publisher: Library Juice Press, LLC
ISBN: 0980200407
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 385

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"A collection of the writings of Shiraz Durrani, British-Kenyan library science professor and political activist"--Provided by publisher.

Information and Liberation

Information and Liberation PDF Author: Shiraz Durrani
Publisher: Library Juice Press, LLC
ISBN: 0980200407
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 385

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Book Description
"A collection of the writings of Shiraz Durrani, British-Kenyan library science professor and political activist"--Provided by publisher.

Information Politics

Information Politics PDF Author: Tim Jordan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781783712977
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
A critical look into how far our lives are controlled by modern digital systems, and how digital information is used by the powerful.

Geographies of Liberation

Geographies of Liberation PDF Author: Alex Lubin
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469612887
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 251

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Book Description
Geographies of Liberation: The Making of an Afro-Arab Political Imaginary

Love for Liberation

Love for Liberation PDF Author: Robin J. Hayes
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295749067
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 253

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During the height of the Cold War, passionate idealists across the US and Africa came together to fight for Black self-determination and the antiracist remaking of society. Beginning with the 1957 Ghanaian independence celebration, the optimism and challenges of African independence leaders were publicized to African Americans through community-based newspapers and Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Inspired by African independence—and frustrated with the slow pace of civil rights reforms in the US—a new generation of Black Power activists embarked on nonviolent direct action campaigns and built alternative institutions designed as spaces of freedom from racial subjugation. Featuring interviews with activists, extensive archival research, and media analysis, Robin Hayes reveals how Black Power and African independence activists created a diaspora underground, characterized by collaboration and reciprocal empowerment. Together, they redefined racial discrimination as an international human rights issue requiring education, sustained collective action, and global solidarity—laying the groundwork for future transnational racial justice movements, such as Black Lives Matter.

Cold War Liberation

Cold War Liberation PDF Author: Natalia Telepneva
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469665875
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 302

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Cold War Liberation examines the African revolutionaries who led armed struggles in three Portuguese colonies—Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau—and their liaisons in Moscow, Prague, East Berlin, and Sofia. By reconstructing a multidimensional story that focuses on both the impact of the Soviet Union on the end of the Portuguese Empire in Africa and the effect of the anticolonial struggles on the Soviet Union, Natalia Telepneva bridges the gap between the narratives of individual anticolonial movements and those of superpower rivalry in sub-Saharan Africa during the Cold War. Drawing on newly available archival sources from Russia and Eastern Europe and interviews with key participants, Telepneva emphasizes the agency of African liberation leaders who enlisted the superpower into their movements via their relationships with middle-ranking members of the Soviet bureaucracy. These administrators had considerable scope to shape policies in the Portuguese colonies which in turn increased the Soviet commitment to decolonization in the wider region. An innovative reinterpretation of the relationships forged between African revolutionaries and the countries of the Warsaw Pact, Cold War Liberation is a bold addition to debates about policy-making in the Global South during the Cold War. We are proud to offer this book in our usual print and ebook formats, plus as an open-access edition available through the Sustainable History Monograph Project.

Knowledge Justice

Knowledge Justice PDF Author: Sofia Y. Leung
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262043505
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 359

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Book Description
Black, Indigenous, and Peoples of Color--reimagine library and information science through the lens of critical race theory. In Knowledge Justice, Black, Indigenous, and Peoples of Color scholars use critical race theory (CRT) to challenge the foundational principles, values, and assumptions of Library and Information Science and Studies (LIS) in the United States. They propel CRT to center stage in LIS, to push the profession to understand and reckon with how white supremacy affects practices, services, curriculum, spaces, and policies.

Information Liberation

Information Liberation PDF Author: Brian Martin
Publisher: Freedom Press (CA)
ISBN: 9780900384936
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 181

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Book Description
Strategies for freeing information from the distortions of power in mass media, bureaucracies, intellectual property, surveillance, research and the like.

Literacy Is Liberation

Literacy Is Liberation PDF Author: Kimberly N. Parker
Publisher: ASCD
ISBN: 1416630929
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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Book Description
Literacy is the foundation for all learning and must be accessible to all students. This fundamental truth is where Kimberly Parker begins to explore how culturally relevant teaching can help students work toward justice. Her goal is to make the literacy classroom a place where students can safely talk about key issues, move to dismantle inequities, and collaborate with one another. Introducing diverse texts is an essential part of the journey, but teachers must also be equipped with culturally relevant pedagogy to improve literacy instruction for all. In Literacy Is Liberation, Parker gives teachers the tools to build culturally relevant intentional literacy communities (CRILCs) with students. Through CRILCs, teachers can better shape their literacy instruction by * Reflecting on the connections between behaviors, beliefs, and racial identity. * Identifying the characteristics of culturally relevant literacy instruction and grounding their practice within a strengths-based framework. * Curating a culturally inclusive library of core texts, choice reading, and personal reading, and teaching inclusive texts with confidence. * Developing strategies to respond to roadblocks for students, administrators, and teachers. * Building curriculum that can foster critical conversations between students about difficult subjects—including race. In a culturally relevant classroom, it is important for students and teachers to get to know one another, be vulnerable, heal, and do the hard work to help everyone become a literacy high achiever. Through the practices in this book, teachers can create the more inclusive, representative, and equitable classroom environment that all students deserve.

Liberation Technology

Liberation Technology PDF Author: Larry Diamond
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421405687
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 205

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Book Description
Liberation Technology brings together cutting-edge scholarship from scholars and practitioners at the forefront of this burgeoning field of study. An introductory section defines the debate with a foundational piece on liberation technology and is then followed by essays discussing the popular dichotomy of liberation'' versus "control" with regard to the Internet and the sociopolitical dimensions of such controls. Additional chapters delve into the cases of individual countries: China, Egypt, Iran, and Tunisia.

Progressive Librarianship

Progressive Librarianship PDF Author: Durrani, Shiraz
Publisher: Vita Books
ISBN: 1869886208
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 447

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Book Description
Public spending is under threat and public libraries are suffering. At a time when libraries can play a critical role in supporting people facing difficult economic and social situations, the dominant conservative model of librarianship has nothing meaningful to say about the role and relevance of libraries. It offers more of the same, but no qualitative change so necessary today. It continues to maintain the myth that there is no alternative to its own policies and practices. There is thus an urgent need to alternative ideas and practices to address people’s needs. The progressive librarianship movement is taking up this challenge. It has also been active in Kenya and Britain but its work is not widely know. The Kenyan movement differed from the others in that it grew within the underground political movement in the 1980s - the December Twelve Movement/Mwakenya. Using original documents, this book records this hidden history. In the process, it examines key concepts such as the role of libraries and the relevance of service. Linking library work with the wider social and political concerns, the book explores issues such as politics of information, the role of activism and “neutrality” in library work. It offers an alternative approach to librarianship, to the training of librarians and to organisational change to make libraries more relevant to people’s lives.