Libraries Amid Protest : Books, Organizing, and Global Activism

Name: Libraries Amid Protest
Brand: University of Massachusetts Press
SKU: 9781625344915
Price: 4750 KES
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ISBN: 9781625344915

by Sherrin Frances

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book

ISBN-10 1625344910

ISBN-13 9781625344915

Publisher University of Massachusetts Press

Imprint University of Massachusetts Press

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jun 26th, 2020

Print length 216 Pages

Weight 394 grams

Dimensions 15.40 x 22.90 x 2.10 cms

Product Classification: Literature: history & criticism Literature: history and criticism

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Explores how protest libraries - labour-intensive, temporary installations in parks and city squares, poorly protected from the weather, at odds with security forces - continue to arise. In telling the stories of these inspiring spaces through interviews and other research, Sherrin Frances confronts the complex history of American public libraries.

In September 2011, Occupy Wall Street activists took over New York's Zuccotti Park. Within a matter of weeks, the encampment had become a tiny model of a robust city, with its own kitchen, first aid station, childcare services -- and a library of several thousand physical books. Since that time, social movements around the world, from Nuit Debout in Paris to Gezi Park in Istanbul, have built temporary libraries alongside their protests. While these libraries typically last only a few weeks at a time and all have ultimately been dismantled or destroyed, each has managed to collect, catalog, and circulate books, serving a need not being met elsewhere.

Libraries amid Protest unpacks how these protest libraries -- labor-intensive, temporary installations in parks and city squares, poorly protected from the weather, at odds with security forces -- continue to arise. In telling the stories of these surprising and inspiring spaces through interviews and other research, Sherrin Frances confronts the complex history of American public libraries. She argues that protest libraries function as the spaces of opportunity and resistance promised, but not delivered, by American public libraries.

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