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Prejudices and antipathies: A tract on the LC subject heads concerning people
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Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences
TL;DR: In Sorting Things Out, Bowker and Star as mentioned in this paper explore the role of categories and standards in shaping the modern world and examine how categories are made and kept invisible, and how people can change this invisibility when necessary.
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Queering the Catalog: Queer Theory and the Politics of Correction
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the problem with classification and cataloging decisions that are framed as objective and neutral but are always ideological and worked to correct bias in library structures is identified.
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The Archival Turn in Feminism: Outrage in Order
TL;DR: Eichhorn's The Archival Turn in Feminism: Outrage in Order focuses on Riot Grrrl collections held at Duke University, New York University, and Barnard College.
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Invisible Mediators of Action: Classification and the Ubiquity of Standards
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that although classifications are frequently invisible to us, they are highly political and ethically charged, and they suggest four principles that can together be used to give a picture of their scope and reach: recognizing their ubiquity, analyzing their material texture, examining ways in which they reconfigure our understanding of the past and exploring their practical politics.
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Imagining: Creating Spaces for Indigenous Ontologies
TL;DR: The decolonizing methodology of imagining provides one way that knowledge organization practitioners and theorists can acknowledge and discern the possibilities of Indigenous community-based approaches to the development of alternative information structures as discussed by the authors.