Drag story hour at public libraries : the reading child and the construction of fear and othering in Swedish cultural policy debate
Engström, Lisa LU
; Carlsson, Hanna
and Hanell, Fredrik
(2024)
In Journal of Documentation
80(7).
p.226-245
- Abstract
- The purpose of the paper is to produce new knowledge about the positions that public libraries both take and are given in the conflicts over politics and identity that play out in contemporary cultural and library policy debates. Using conflicts over drag story hour at public libraries as case, the study seeks to contribute to an emerging body of research that delves into the challenges that public libraries as promoters of democracy are confronting in the conflictual political landscape of today.
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- author
- Engström, Lisa
LU
; Carlsson, Hanna
and Hanell, Fredrik
- organization
- publishing date
- 2024-05-17
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Public libraries, drag story hour, Cultural policies
- in
- Journal of Documentation
- volume
- 80
- issue
- 7
- pages
- 226 - 245
- publisher
- Emerald Group Publishing Limited
- external identifiers
-
- scopus:85194866519
- ISSN
- 0022-0418
- DOI
- 10.1108/JD-02-2024-0026
- project
- Folkbiblioteken i ett förändrat politiskt landskap – ett demokratiuppdrag för en ny tid?
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- a5989125-d770-492f-a3c8-903efb0c6221
- date added to LUP
- 2024-06-05 09:03:09
- date last changed
- 2024-06-20 12:57:10
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