Infrastructuring the Social: Public Libraries and their Transformative Capacity in Austerity Urbanism: presentation of the research project ILIT

Activity: Talk or presentationInvited talk

Description

ILIT investigates the (in)formal practices (or ‘infrastructuring’) that library staff, patrons, policy-makers and other stakeholders employ to provide, perform and maintain public libraries as important socio-cultural infrastructures, particularly in Austrian, Swedish and Dutch communities that struggle with systemic challenges such as unemployment, loneliness and segregation. Funded by FORMAS/Energimyndigheten
Period2022 Nov 16
Held atUniversity of Copenhagen: Department of Communication, Denmark
Degree of RecognitionInternational

UKÄ subject classification

  • Information Studies