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<p><em>Journal of Radical Librarianship</em> (ISSN 2399-956X) is an open access journal publishing high quality, rigorously reviewed and innovative scholarly work in the field of radical librarianship. It also publishes non-peer reviewed reports, commentary, and reviews. The scope of the journal is any work that contributes to a discourse around critical library and information theory and practice.</p>
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https://journal.radicallibrarianship.org/index.php/journal/article/view/183
Published: August 30, 2026 20:51
When working in predominantly white institutions (PWIs), many Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) experience daily microaggressions, particularly the conflation of the identities of two BIPOC coworkers of the same race or ethnicity. Using…
Locating the Library in Regimes of Extraction
https://journal.radicallibrarianship.org/index.php/journal/article/view/172
Published: August 30, 2026 01:22
Academic libraries are capitalist institutions. This is not metaphor, analogy, or recent development but structural reality: libraries operate as technologies for transforming land, labor, and knowledge into property, facilitating the accumulation and…
The Enclosure of the Commons: Privatization of Knowledge and the Public Library in an Age of Democratic Fragility
https://journal.radicallibrarianship.org/index.php/journal/article/view/185
Published: August 11, 2026 13:49
The defunding and censorship of public libraries represent not merely a culture-war phenomenon but a phase in the ongoing privatization of public goods and the knowledge commons in America. This paper emphasizes historical context, economic data, and…
Review of Peculiar Satisfaction: Thomas Jefferson and the Mastery of Subjects
https://journal.radicallibrarianship.org/index.php/journal/article/view/184
Published: June 30, 2026 17:14
Review of Adler, M. (2026). Peculiar satisfaction: Thomas Jefferson and the mastery of subjects. Fordham University Press.
Review of Resisting Erasure: Libraries in Palestine and Palestine in Libraries
https://journal.radicallibrarianship.org/index.php/journal/article/view/186
Published: June 9, 2026 18:35
Review of Murad, N. L., & Onorato, M. L. (Eds.). (2026). Resisting Erasure: Libraries in Palestine and Palestine in Libraries. Library Juice Press.
Weird Science
https://journal.radicallibrarianship.org/index.php/journal/article/view/175
Published: June 8, 2026 15:14
Abstract: This piece talks about some of the hidden harms of integrating generative AI tools into academic research. The dangers go beyond fake citations and confabulated facts. GenAI infuses the entire research process with distortions and biases. I…
Academic Libraries in the Age of Vectoralism
https://journal.radicallibrarianship.org/index.php/journal/article/view/140
Published: April 13, 2026 15:00
Vectoralism is a way of understanding class relationships in the twenty-first century. Moving beyond a Marxist understanding of class relationships, McKenzie Wark provides new language to understand the class of which library workers are a part, the hacker…