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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Re-making the Library Makerspace: Critical Theories, Reflections, and Practices

Re-making the Library Makerspace: Critical Theories, Reflections, and Practices

Melo, Maggie
Nichols, Jennifer

Paperback

General ReferenceGeneral EducationGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1634000811
ISBN13: 9781634000819
Publisher: Lib Juice Pr
Published: Nov 1 2020
Pages: 334
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The Maker Movement is a social phenomenon that has generated excitement around tech-centric making and learning throughout the world since the mid-2000s. Hailing from Silicon Valley, the Maker Movement has inspired hundreds of libraries across the US to integrate makerspaces into their own ecosystems to further support users' learning and discovery. While the affordances of the Maker Movement have been highlighted extensively over the past decade, the limitations and drawbacks of this movement have been largely overshadowed. The Maker Movement has popularized a narrow, classist, predominantly white, and heteronormative conceptualization of maker culture. Makerspaces, like libraries, are not neutral, but rather are imbued with ideologies stemming from Silicon Valley that consequently dictate who makes, why making occurs, and what is considered making. This edited collection centers the limitations and challenges emerging from this particular brand of 'maker culture, ' and emphasizes the critical work that is being done to cultivate anti-oppressive, inclusive and equitable making environments.

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