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What is Social Justice and Social Equity in LIS

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Handbook of Research on the Role of Libraries, Archives, and Museums in Achieving Civic Engagement and Social Justice in Smart Cities
A social justice and social equity perspective in library and information science leans toward strong activism and advocacy to support fairness, justice, equity/equality, change agency, and community development via information-related work, with, and on behalf of all people, especially those considered on society’s margins.
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Extending Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan in the 21st Century: Social Justice Laws of Librarianship
Bharat Mehra (University of Alabama, USA)
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 18
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8363-0.ch016
Abstract
This chapter traces the actualities and possibilities of representing social justice and social equity concerns in LIS via extending Ranganathan's five laws of librarianship within today's contemporary neoliberal and geopolitical realities. Blinders in librarianship are identified in its resistance to intentional, systematic, action-oriented, community-engaged, and impact-driven strategies of social justice and real change owing to its White-IST (white + elitist) roots. These are speculated in relation to the profession's undervaluing of Ranganathan's contributions because of his South Asian (i.e., East Indian) origins as a result of the pedestalizing of its Anglo/Eurocentric components within the legacies of a colonized and imperialistic world order. A manifesto of social justice laws of librarianship is proposed to address past and recent lapses in LIS.
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