"The books were just the props": public libraries and contested space in the Cape Flats townships in the 1980s.
From: Library Trends
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Date: 1/1/2007
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Author: Dick, Archie L.
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.
INTRODUCTION
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