Chelsea Kirkland's List: LIBR 285 05

• Curry, Ann (1997) The limits of tolerance: censorship and intellectual freedom in public libraries. London: Scarecrow. A careful examination of the uneasy relationship between the practice of public librarianship and the philosophy of intellectual freedom.
• Mcrobbie, Angela (1994) Postmodernism and popular culture. London: Routledge. An engagement with everyday life as an eclectic context for the interplay of different cultures and identities using new ways of thinking introduced with the advent of postmodernism.

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  Maguire, P. (1987) Doing participatory research: A feminist approach. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts.

   

  An early approach to critical theory research from a feminist perspective.

• Ritzer, George. (1997) Postmodern social theory. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.

   

  An excellent survey of postmodernism - highly recommended but unfortunately out of print.

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  Smith, L.T. (1999) Decolonizing methodologies: Research and indigenous peoples. London: Zed Books. University of Otago Press. 

   

  A postmodern approach to critical theory from the position of an indigenous Maori academic. Appealing.

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