CFP: Evidences, Implications, and Critical Interrogations of Neoliberalism in Information Studies

The Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies has issued a call for papers for an upcoming issue on Evidences, Implications, and Critical Interrogations of Neoliberalism in Information Studies. Edited by Marika Cifor (Bowdoin College) and Jamie A. Lee (University of Arizona), submissions may address:

  • Increasing challenges to information ethics;
  • Shifting practices among community and institutional information environments;
  • The use of private contractors in government archives and public libraries;
  • The entanglement of governmental and educational institutions, libraries and neoliberal policies, worldviews, and values;
  • Information’s relationship to the economic market/political economy of information more broadly;
  • Neoliberal conceptions of information and knowledge;
  • Intellectual and affective labor in contemporary LIS environments;
  • Libraries and archives as sites of resistance;
  • The prevalence of neoliberal discourse in LIS research;
  • The influence of neoliberalism on labor practices in libraries, archives, museums or other information centers; and
  • Economic inequalities and global justice.

Manuscripts are due by April 30, 2018.

Author: Sarah Melton

Sarah Melton is Head of Digital Scholarship at Boston College. Her group explores and documents new tools and supports teaching and research in a variety of areas that utilize broad methodologies in the digital humanities. She is interested in questions of digital infrastructure, the philosophical underpinnings of ”openness,” and the intersection of public history and digital humanities. She has worked with Open Access Button for the past several years. Sarah holds a PhD from Emory University’s Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts.