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Libraries amid protest : books, organizing, and global activism / Sherrin Frances.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Frances, Sherrin, author.
- Series:
- Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Libraries--Political aspects--Case studies.
- Libraries.
- Libraries and society--Case studies.
- Libraries and society.
- Libraries and community--Case studies.
- Libraries and community.
- Libraries--Political aspects.
- Protest camps.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (256 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst, Massachusetts : University of Massachusetts Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One. Definition of a Protest Library
- Chapter 1. Origins: BiblioSol, Madrid
- Chapter 2. Materiality And Virtuality: BiblioSol, Madrid
- Chapter 3. Behavior in Space: Occupy Wall Street People's Library, New York
- Chapter 4. Visual Spectacle: Occupy Wall Street People's Library, New York
- Chapter 5. Library As A Democratic Institution: NYPL Main Branch, New York
- Part Two. Libraries and Undercurrents
- Chapter 6. Carnegie's Influence: Biblioteca Popular Victor Martinez, Oakland
- Chapter 7. Library As Social Space: Biblioteca Popular Victor Martinez, Oakland
- Chapter 8. Borders And Barricades: Gezi Park Library, Istanbul
- Chapter 9. Engaging in Nation-Building: Maidan Library, Kiev
- Chapter 10. A Library Without Books: Library of Ukrainian Literature, Moscow
- Part Three. Reinvention
- Chapter 11. The New Shape of Space: BiblioDebout, Paris
- Chapter 12. Phases of the Protest Library: BiblioDebout, Paris and Lyon
- Chapter 13. Reinvention as Collective: Freedom Square Library, Chicago
- Chapter 14. Circling Back: Bibliosol Reinvented as Tres Peces Tres, Madrid
- Notes
- Index
- Back Cover.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-62534-490-2
- OCLC:
- 1204310965
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