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Not everything fits neatly into categories. This space is a crossroads where knowledge, power, and memory intersect — a place to unravel the broader tensions between information, politics, society, and culture.
From knowledge suppression to digital dystopias, from Epistemologies of the South to the future of archives, this is a space for reflections that resist easy classification.
Here, ideas collide. Assumptions are challenged. And the role of knowledge in shaping our world is put to the test.
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Series Leaving Green Libraries Behind
Libraries have embraced the sustainability discourse enthusiastically, but how transformative are these initiatives? This set of critical notes explores how the concept of "green libraries" has been co-opted by eco-marketing strategies and greenwashing, diverting attention from the systemic changes the world urgently needs. From "sustainable" architecture and carbon offsetting to degrowth and minimalism, these notes challenge the superficiality of current solutions and propose radical alternatives that question the logic of perpetual growth and the commodification of environmental consciousness.
Keywords: Green libraries | Critical librarianship | Greenwashing | Degrowth | Critical sustainability | Ecological justice | Environmental colonialism
Leaving Green Libraries Behind (07 of 10) [read] [LinkedIn]
Leaving Green Libraries Behind (06 of 10) [read] [LinkedIn]
Leaving Green Libraries Behind (05 of 10) [read] [LinkedIn]
Leaving Green Libraries Behind (04 of 10) [read] [LinkedIn]
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Leaving Green Libraries Behind (02 of 10) [read] [LinkedIn]
Leaving Green Libraries Behind (01 of 10) [read] [LinkedIn]
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