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"The books were just the props": Public Libraries and Contested Space in the Cape Flats Townships in the 1980s

Dick, Archie L.

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Title
"The books were just the props": Public Libraries and Contested Space in the Cape Flats Townships in the 1980s
Author(s)
Dick, Archie L.
Issue Date
2007
Keyword(s)
  • Libraries and society
  • Public Libraries
  • Libraries in South Africa
Abstract
This article examines the relationship between public libraries and social change in South Africa during the 1980s. It focuses on libraries in selected townships on the Cape Flats. It concludes that debates about the public library’s success or failure as an instrument of social change cannot overlook the idea of contested space in which the live discussion, debate, and circulation of ideas precludes and includes the use of books and libraries.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
ISSN
0024-2594
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/3702
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Copyright 2007 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois.

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Library Trends 55 (3) Winter 2007: Libraries in Times of War, Revolution, and Social Change PRIMARY
Library Trends 55 (3) Winter 2007: Libraries in Times of War, Revolution, and Social Change. Edited by W. Boyd Rayward and Christine Jenkins.