Millennium For All Alternative Report on Public Library Security

Selman, Brianne; Curnow, Joe; Dobchuk-Land, Bronwyn; Cooper, Sarah; Samson, J.; Kohan, Andrew

doi:10.31229/osf.io/vfu6h

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“…Over a quarter of the municipal budget is spent on the police force, a budget line that is increased year-by-year while public transit, parks, community spaces, and other services get starved for resources (Dobchuk-Land, 2023). Community supports, preventative measures, and holistic approaches to safety are underfunded despite evidence showing they work (Selman et al, 2019).…”

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Using Literature Review to Inform an Anti-Oppressive Approach to Community Safety

Chamberlain,

Cardigan Smith,

Perrott

2024

ESJ

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Literature review is a common piece of any scholarly research, but it is rare for it to be squarely at the centre of a community-based project. In this Report from the Field, the research team critically reflects upon the creation and use of a literature review on grassroots, anti-oppressive approaches to community safety in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Writing in conversation with one another, we explore the tensions of navigating and challenging safety discourse and securitization practices in our city, from our distinct experiences and positions as an academic researcher, community partner, and student research assistant. In the process, we illuminate a collaboration that offers insights for academic and community researchers alike. We reflect on creating an accessible basis for community conversation and planning while doing justice to the sources of anti-oppressive theory and practice, particularly when initially speaking to mostly white and privileged community members. The literature review has generated discussion about what it means to approach safety as a collective resource rather than an exclusive possession, and will inform practical strategies in the neighbourhood and beyond.

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Section: Dagen Perrottmentioning

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Using Literature Review to Inform an Anti-Oppressive Approach to Community Safety

Chamberlain,

Cardigan Smith,

Perrott

2024

ESJ

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“…4). The effect of added security at Millennium was a large drop in library usage, and the exclusion and increased marginalization of already vulnerable populations (Selman, et al, 2019).…”

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Canadian Librarianship and the Politics of Recognition

Popowich

2021

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Recent controversies in Canadian librarianship—the Toronto Public Library room rental to a "gender-critical feminist" group and the institution of “airport-style” security at the Winnipeg Public Library—have exposed divisions within the profession. This article attempts to untangle the relationship of Canadian libraries to state power and explores hegemonic leadership within the library profession. It also investigates the part played by a politics of recognition, both in the reinforcement of professional discipline and in the maintenance of the social, political, and economic status quo regarding the rights and democratic participation of marginalized communities. The paper begins with a brief account of recent controversies, looks at intellectual freedom, and then analyzes the ways in which politics of recognition play out in libraries and settler-colonial societies. Based on Taylor’s theory of recognition and its critique by Coulthard and Fraser, this article argues that, within the context of a needed refoundation of social relations, recognition must be combined with real redistribution of rights and participation.

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Millennium For All Alternative Report on Public Library Security

Cited by 2 publications

References 9 publications

Using Literature Review to Inform an Anti-Oppressive Approach to Community Safety

Using Literature Review to Inform an Anti-Oppressive Approach to Community Safety

Canadian Librarianship and the Politics of Recognition

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