[Upd-discuss] New issue Information for Social Change, No. 22, Winter 2005/2006

[Zapopan Martin Muela-Meza]

Information for Social Change
ISSN 1364-694X 
No. 22, Winter 2005/2006 (all in PDF Format)

Information for Social Change Issue 22

Information for Social Change
"an activist organisation that examines issues of censorship, freedom and
ethics amongst library and information workers..."

ISC 22, Winter 2005/2006
The newspaper industry and the powerful effect of language; Cuba –
libraries and computers; globalisation – health, libraries, information
and education; social exclusion and colonialism; social class and public
libraries; academic freedom; Social Action in Library and Information work
worldwide; the UK Government’s Education White Paper; Quebec and
writing for the information sector 

CONTENTS

Editorial by Ruth Rikowski and John Pateman
<http://www.libr.org/ISC/issues/ISC22a.pdf>

Cuba and Computers by Dana Lubow 1
<http://www.libr.org/ISC/issues/isc22/22-1.pdf>

Shaping our future: Library Services for Youth by Miguel Viciedo Valdes 6
<http://www.libr.org/ISC/issues/isc22/22-3.pdf>

The Culture of Comfort by Annette de Faveri 13
<http://www.libr.org/ISC/issues/isc22/22-2.pdf>

“IN” versus “WITH” the Community: Using a Community Development Approach
to Public
Library Service – Brian Campbell
15
<http://www.libr.org/ISC/issues/isc22/22-2b.pdf>

Mind the Gap by John Pateman 20
<http://www.libr.org/ISC/issues/isc22/22-4.pdf>

The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and health care: an
introduction and annotated bibliography by Keith Nockels
24
<http://www.libr.org/ISC/issues/isc22/22-5.pdf>

Traditional Knowledge and TRIPS by Ruth Rikowski 29
<http://www.libr.org/ISC/issues/isc22/22-6.pdf>

Sexy words, Iconic Phrases and slippery terms – it’s all newspaper talk: a
theoretical analysis of the language used by the newspaper industry to
manifest and perpetuate discourse by Alpesh Maisuria 38
<http://www.libr.org/ISC/issues/isc22/22-7.pdf>

Tracking Social Action in Library and Information Work Worldwide – Toni
Samek 65
<http://www.libr.org/ISC/issues/isc22/22-8.pdf>

Academic Freedom Post 9-11:An Issues Report – Toni Samek 69
<http://www.libr.org/ISC/issues/isc22/22-9.pdf>
          
Discussion on the education White Paper for England and Extensions of the
Commodification Process in Libraries and Schools – Ruth Rikowski and Glenn
Rikowski 75
<http://www.libr.org/ISC/issues/isc22/22-10.pdf>

Starting to write for the information sector: some experiences – Paul
Catherall 83
<http://www.libr.org/ISC/issues/isc22/22-11.pdf>

Quebec’s heart of darkness: a review article of Daniel Poliquin’s essay on
Quebec Nationalism, In the name of the father by Julian Samuel
86
<http://www.libr.org/ISC/issues/isc22/22-12.pdf>

Room at the Top: Cultural bodies in Quebec lack any meaningful minority
representation - an article on racism re French and Canada by Julian
Samuel 91
<http://www.libr.org/ISC/issues/isc22/22-13.pdf>

Quebec's Minorities: Trapped Between Two Solitudes – an article on racism
re French and Canada by Julian Samuel 94
<http://www.libr.org/ISC/issues/isc22/22-14.pdf>

Book Reviews

The Battle in Seattle: its significance for education by Glenn Rikowski 96
Reviewed by Paul Catherall
<http://www.libr.org/ISC/issues/isc22/22-15.pdf>

The New Rulers of the World, by John Pilger 98
Reviewed by Julian Samuel
<http://www.libr.org/ISC/issues/isc22/22-16.pdf>

The Constant Gardener by John Le Carré 100
Reviewed by Julian Samuel
<http://www.libr.org/ISC/issues/isc22/22-17.pdf>

White Teeth, by Zadie Smith 101
Reviewed by Julian Samuel
<http://www.libr.org/ISC/issues/isc22/22-18.pdf>

When We Were Orphans, by Kazuo Ishiguro 102
Reviewed by Julian Samuel
<http://www.libr.org/ISC/issues/isc22/22-19.pdf>

Experience, by Martin Amis 103
Reviewed by Julian Samuel
<http://www.libr.org/ISC/issues/isc22/22-20.pdf>

The Fact of Blackness: Frantz Fanon and Visual Representation 103
Edited by Alan Read Reviewed by Julian J. Samuel - ‘Ignoring the role of
violence in Fanon: playing with the bones of an exhumed hero’
<http://www.libr.org/ISC/issues/isc22/22-21.pdf>

Fanon for Beginners by Deborah Wyrick, 107
Reviewed by Julian J. Samuel
<http://www.libr.org/ISC/issues/isc22/22-22.pdf>

Film Reviews
Shooting Imperialism: Three Film Documentaries - The Raft of the Medusa,
Into the European Mirror and City of the Dead and the World Exhibitions
109 by Julian Samuel A review article by Cecilia Morgan
<http://www.libr.org/ISC/issues/isc22/22-23.pdf>

Bowling for Columbine, USA, directed by Michael Moore 116
Reviewed by Julian Samuel
<http://www.libr.org/ISC/issues/isc22/22-24.pdf>

The Tree that Remembers, Directed by Masoud Raouf 118
Reviewed by Julian Samuel
<http://www.libr.org/ISC/issues/isc22/22-25.pdf>

The Tree that Remembers, directed by Masoud Raouf 119
Reviewed by Pat Dillon
<http://www.libr.org/ISC/issues/isc22/22-26.pdf>


Zapopan Muela
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"Tiranos y autócratas han entendido siempre que el alfabetismo, 
el conocimiento, los libros y los periódicos son un peligro 
en potencia. Pueden inculcar ideas independientes e incluso
de rebeldía en las cabezas de sus súbditos.
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"Tyrants and autocrats have always understood that literacy, 
learning, books and newspapers are potentially dangerous. 
They can put independent and even rebelious ideas to the heads 
of their subjects."
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-- Sagan, Carl (1997). The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle
in the Dark : El mundo y sus demonios: La ciencia como una luz en la 
oscuridad. México: Planeta, p. 390; New York: Ballantine Books, p. 362.

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