Dan Grace
Information School
PhD researcher
Full contact details
Information School
Regent Court (IS)
211 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
- Profile
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Dan is part of the Libraries and information society research group.
PhD project
Title: "Creating a convivial library: crisis, the commons and community resilience."
We live in a time of intertwined economic, environmental, and political crises. This project seeks to understand what place a library has in addressing these crises.
It comprises an autoethnographic account of the praxis of creating a convivial library. The project seeks to investigate this process of praxis (the flow from theory to practice and back again) through my own attempts to realise a convivial library in Sheffield.
Specifically, the theoretical perspectives engaged with are primarily drawn from the work of Ivan Illich on convivial institutions and the commons, and Jason W. Moore's work on world-ecology.
Supervisors
Research interests
- Public libraries
- Convivial tools
- Information as a commons
- Theories of knowledge/information
- Critical theory
- World-ecology
- Marxism
- Anarchism
Funding and awards
WRoCAH PhD studentship
- Publications
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Journal articles
- Community Resilience and the Role of the Public Library. Library Trends, 61(3), 513-541. View this article in WRRO
Chapters
- View this article in WRRO
Conference proceedings papers
- View this article in WRRO
- Community Resilience and the Role of the Public Library. Library Trends, 61(3), 513-541. View this article in WRRO