What sets this book apart is its direct confrontation of the status quo and aggressively re/claims intellectual space for "others". This is the only book to critique the entire discipline of Information Science from as many angles as possible in one volume and as far outside of the traditional organizations.
A Critical Look at Information Science and Librarianship in a New Age: Constellation of Insanity fosters a platform for information scientists to engage in reflection and contemplation regarding the profound questions of our era. By drawing insights from pioneers in the field whose contributions were once marginalized or, in some instances, overlooked within the realm of information science, chapter authors strive to re/center the field's focal point.
Chapter authors draw from a diverse array of frameworks including critical theory, deconstruction, queer theory, borderlands, among others. What sets this book apart is its direct confrontation of the status quo and aggressively re/claims intellectual space for "others". This is the only book to critique the entire discipline of Information Science from as many angles as possible in one volume and as far outside of the traditional organizations.
Section
1. Pirates
Chapter
1. Visible Threats and Hidden Practices: Embodied Information and the
Policing of Biker Identity; Joe Sánchez
Chapter
2. Man, Becky, Bear! Surviving White Mediocrity and Striving Towards
Anti-Racism (STAR) in LIS; Nicole A. Cooke and Rachel D. William
Chapter
3. An Epistle to the iPostles: A Sermon on the Mount(anious) Journey
from Ph.D. Student to LIS Professor; Joseph Winberry
Chapter
4. A Pirates Critique from Social Justice Imperatives: A Manifesto
of Decolonizing actions to Resist Entrenched Dysfunctions in LIS Scholarship;
Bharat Mehra
Section
2. Ghosts
Chapter
5. Everything I Need To Know About Information Science I Learned from
the L Word: What the Field Needs to Recognize about Everyday Information;
Vanessa Kitzie
Chapter
6. Who feels like they belong at the library?; Heather Hill
Chapter
7. The future has a Past: On Information, Memory, and the Black
Feminist Hereafter; LaVerne Gray
Chapter
8. The More Than Three-Body Problem: Embodiment as a Persistent
Challenge to Information Science; Travis L. Wagner
Chapter
9. Unclaimed Baggage: Facets of Fragility; Wade Bishop
Section
3. Unexplored Spaces
Chapter
10. DEIAThe Final Frontier? Going Where No One Has Gone Before?;
Renate L. Chancellor and Deirdre Michael Sullivan
Chapter
11. Crossing the (Scientific) Borders: Redefining Disciplinary
Boundaries and Bridging the Divides in ISL; Ly Dinh
Chapter
12. Toward a New AI Literacy; Peter Organisciak and Emily Gillette
Chapter
13. A Virgos Guide to Surviving the Aquarian Shift: Reimagining
Information Systems with Precision and Purpose; Siobahn Day Grady
Wade Bishop is a Professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, USA. He is the Director of Graduate Studies as well as the Research Data Management Certificate Coordinator.
Renate L. Chancellor is Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA). She is recipient of the 2014 Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Excellence in Teaching Award and the 2012 ALISE Leadership Award. She is an affiliated faculty member with the Lender Center for Social Justice.
Joe Sánchez is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies at Queens College (CUNY), USA. He is a Mellon Fellow and a Google/ALA fellow in the Libraries Ready to Code Program, a founder of the iSchool Inclusion Institute (i3), and on the advisory board of the ALA Spectrum Doctoral Fellows program.
