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Extending Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan in the 21st Century: Social Justice Laws of Librarianship

Extending Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan in the 21st Century: Social Justice Laws of Librarianship

Bharat Mehra
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 18
ISBN13: 9781799883630|ISBN10: 1799883639|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781799883647|EISBN13: 9781799883654
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8363-0.ch016
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Mehra, Bharat. "Extending Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan in the 21st Century: Social Justice Laws of Librarianship." Handbook of Research on the Role of Libraries, Archives, and Museums in Achieving Civic Engagement and Social Justice in Smart Cities, edited by Mohamed Taher, IGI Global, 2022, pp. 295-312. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8363-0.ch016

APA

Mehra, B. (2022). Extending Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan in the 21st Century: Social Justice Laws of Librarianship. In M. Taher (Ed.), Handbook of Research on the Role of Libraries, Archives, and Museums in Achieving Civic Engagement and Social Justice in Smart Cities (pp. 295-312). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8363-0.ch016

Chicago

Mehra, Bharat. "Extending Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan in the 21st Century: Social Justice Laws of Librarianship." In Handbook of Research on the Role of Libraries, Archives, and Museums in Achieving Civic Engagement and Social Justice in Smart Cities, edited by Mohamed Taher, 295-312. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2022. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8363-0.ch016

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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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