INFORMATION FOR SOCIAL CHANGE (ISC)
ISSN 1364-694X
CALL FOR PAPERS
The summer 2007 issue of the online journal Information for Social Change (ISC) will focus on the urgent theme of library and information workers as political actors in times of war, civil war, military occupation, and social conflicts worldwide.
ISC seeks both contemporary and historical submissions that address such topics as:
-- Library and information provision during times of war, civil war, military occupation, and social conflict that provide innsights and practical strategies for potential library and information projects in regions of conflict worldwide.
-- Profiles of library and information workers as participants and interventionists in conflicts, as political actors that offfer some new possibilities for strategies of resistance, or that challenge networks of military or civil control worldwide.
-- Access to library and information provision and the information needs of oppressed peoples for empowerment and emancipatioon during times of war, revolution, or social conflict worldwide.
-- Dissemination of information about inside conflicts to the outside world. Here, ISC is particularly interested in exploraations of how to protect the information provider in terms of privacy; confidentiality; freedom of opinion and expression; freedom of thought, conscience and religion; peaceful assembly and association; and protection from torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment as expressed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948).
Note: ISC has a special interest in receiving, publishing, documenting, and giving memory to information about conflicts on which very little information has been recorded to date.
Anyone interested in contributing an article, thought piece, bibliography, review, or other work related to the expressed theme is invited to share their ideas with issue co-editors:
Martyn Lowe - email: martynlowe@usa.net
AND
Toni Samek - email: toni.samek@ualberta.ca
The closing date forsubmission is December 10, 2006 (HUMAN RIGHTS DAY). Word limits are negotiable with Martyn and Toni.
Toni Samek, PhD
Associate Professor
School of Library & Information Studies, Faculty of Education
Chair, Canadian Library Association's Advisory Committee on Intellectual Freedom
3-15 Rutherford South
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta CANADA T6G 2J4
Phone: (780) 492-0179
Fax: (780) 492-2430
E-mail: toni.samek@ualberta.ca
Web: http://www.ualberta.ca/~asamek/toni.htm
For upcoming activities, see: http://www.ualberta.ca/~asamek/talks.htm#upcoming
"A word after a word after a word is power" Margaret Atwood.
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