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Author Frances, Sherrin, author.

Title Libraries amid protest : books, organizing, and global activism / Sherrin Frances.

Publication Info. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2020]

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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
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 kitchens, first aid stations, 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 destroyed by police, 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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Libraries and society.
Libraries and society.
Libraries and society -- Case studies.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Subject Libraries and community.
Libraries and community.
Libraries and community -- Case studies.
Libraries -- Political aspects.
Libraries -- Political aspects.
Libraries -- Political aspects -- Case studies.
Protest camps.
Protest camps.
Libraries.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
Bibliotheques -- Aspect politique.
Bibliotheques -- Aspect social.
Relations bibliotheque-collectivite.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Case studies.
Other Form: Print version: 9781625344908 1625344902 (DLC) 2019042780 (OCoLC)1129173722
ISBN 9781613767368 (electronic book)
1613767366 (electronic book)
9781625344908
1625344902
9781625344915
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