Introduction: The Necessity for Theoretically Informed Critique in Library and Information Science (LIS) Gloria Leckie and John Buschman 1. Michel Aglietta and Regulation Theory Siobhan Stevenson 2. Roland Barthes: On Semiology and Taxonomy Hans Dam Christensen 3. Roy Bhaskar's Critical Realism John M. Budd 4. Social Capital, Symbolic Violence, and Fields of Cultural Production: Pierre Bourdieu and Library and Information Science Lisa Hussey 5. Beyond a Signpost for Resistance: The Promise of Michel de Certeau's Practices of Everyday Life for LIS Scholarship Paulette Rothbauer 6. Michel Foucault: Discourse, Power/Knowledge, and the Battle for Truth Michael R.
Olsson 7. Deconstructing the Library with Jacques Derrida: Creating Space for the "Other" in Bibliographic Description and Classification Joseph Deodato 8. Transformative Library Pedagogy and Community-Based Libraries: A Freirean Perspective Martina Riedler and Mustafa Yunus Eryaman 9. Psychoanalysis as Critique in the Works of Freud, Lacan, and Deleuze and Guattari Ronald E. Day and Andrew J. Lau 10. Anthony Giddens' Influence on Library and Information Science Howard Rosenbaum 11. The Public Library as a Space for Democratic Empowerment: Henry Giroux, Radical Democracy, and Border Pedagogy Mustafa Yunus Eryaman 12.
Hegemony, Historic Blocs, and Capitalism: Antonio Gramsci in Library and Information Science Douglas Raber 13. The Social as Fundamental and a Source of the Critical: Jürgen Habermas John E. Buschman 14. Martin Heidegger's Critique of Informational Modernity Ronald E. Day 15. Bruno Latour: Documenting Human and Nonhuman Associations Will Wheeler 16. Jean Lave's Practice Theory Sanna Talja 17. Henri Lefebvre and Spatial Dialectics Gloria J.
Leckie and Lisa M. Given 18. Herbert Marcuse: Liberation, Utopia, and Revolution Ajit Pyati 19. Chantal Mouffe's Theory of Agonistic Pluralism and Its Relevance for Library and Information Science Research Joacim Hansson 20. Antonio Negri on Information, Empire, and Commonwealth Nick Dyer-Witheford 21. Ferdinand de Saussure: Duality Paul Solomon 22. Investigating the Textually Mediated Work of Institutions: Dorothy E. Smith's Sociology for People Rosamund K.
Stooke 23. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: Deconstructionist, Marxist, Feminist, Postcolonialist Hope A. Olson and Melodie J. Fox Index About the Editors and Contributors.