Returning a stare: people's struggles for political and social inclusion (Social exclusion: an international perspective part 1)

Durrani, Shiraz . Returning a stare: people's struggles for political and social inclusion (Social exclusion: an international perspective part 1)., 2000 In: Open to All? : the Public Library and Social Exclusion. London: Resource: The Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries, pp. 87-110. [Book chapter]

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This is the first of two linked working papers analysing social exclusion at an international level (the second being by John Pateman). It reviews struggles against exclusion and poverty in different societies, emphasising the role of information, and the potential of role of libraries. Social exclusion is described in the context of global capitalism. The process of exclusion is seen as having intensified with the rise of the ‘information age.’ The paper then looks at resistance to this exclusion. The following examples of the role of information and communications in this resistance are described: film in Chile; video activism; the Alternative Davos; various protest and campaign movements; the Adivasis in Tamil Nadu; political communications in Kenya; the Kurdish people and the Zapatistas in Mexico. Lessons for public libraries are drawn throughout. It is concluded that if libraries are to be relevant to those who are excluded, then information workers need to purposively support people’s struggles against exclusion (April, 1999).

Item type: Book chapter
Keywords: global capitalism, information workers, public libraries, political exclusion, social exclusion, social inequalities, United Kingdom, working class resistance to capitalism
Subjects: E. Publishing and legal issues. > ED. Intellectual property: author's rights, ownership, copyright, copyleft, open access.
E. Publishing and legal issues. > EE. Intellectual freedom.
B. Information use and sociology of information > BC. Information in society.
E. Publishing and legal issues. > EF. Censorship.
B. Information use and sociology of information > BF. Information policy
D. Libraries as physical collections. > DC. Public libraries.
Depositing user: Zapopan Martín Muela-Meza
Date deposited: 06 May 2005
Last modified: 02 Oct 2014 12:01
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/6285

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