Cultural Pervasiveness or Objective Violence?: Three Questions about KOS as Cultural Arbiters

Richard P. Smiraglia

doi:10.7152/acro.v26i1.14981

Cultural Pervasiveness or Objective Violence?: Three Questions about KOS as Cultural Arbiters

Advances in Classification Research Online ◽

10.7152/acro.v26i1.14981 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 26 (1) ◽

pp. 9 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Richard P. Smiraglia

Keyword(s):

Human Experience ◽

Knowledge Organization ◽

Theory Of Knowledge ◽

Sex And Gender ◽

Knowledge Organization Systems ◽

Research Questions ◽

And Gender

Knowledge organization and knowledge organization systems are pervasive in human experience, yet the effect of this pervasiveness is overlooked and little analyzed. Several authors have called for a theory of knowledge organization that embraces cultural and social realities alongside domain-centric ontologies. Examples of leading studies point to pervasive and occasionally oppressive discourses embracing race, sex and gender and economics. Three research questions are presented about how to study knowledge organization systems as cultural arbiters and how to incorporate temporality and atemporality into the methodology of subject ontogeny.

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Cultural Pervasiveness or Objective Violence?: Three Questions about KOS as Cultural Arbiters

Advances in Classification Research Online ◽

10.7152/acro.v26i1.14977 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 26 (1) ◽

pp. 1

Author(s):

Richard P. Smiraglia

Keyword(s):

Human Experience ◽

Knowledge Organization ◽

Theory Of Knowledge ◽

Sex And Gender ◽

Knowledge Organization Systems ◽

Research Questions ◽

And Gender

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Analyzing the network structure and gender differences among the members of the Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) community

International Journal on Digital Libraries ◽

10.1007/s00799-018-0243-0 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 20 (3) ◽

pp. 231-239 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Fariba Karimi ◽

Philipp Mayr ◽

Fakhri Momeni

Keyword(s):

Gender Differences ◽

Network Structure ◽

Knowledge Organization ◽

Knowledge Organization Systems ◽

And Gender

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Cultural Curation as Classification: The Evolution of the Bibliography and Taxonomy for The Encyclopedia of Milwaukee

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of CAIS / Actes du congrès annuel de l'ACSI ◽

10.29173/cais640 ◽

2013 ◽

Author(s):

Ann M. Graf ◽

Richard P. Smiraglia

Keyword(s):

Social Interaction ◽

Human Experience ◽

Knowledge Organization ◽

Human Interaction ◽

Interactions Sociales ◽

Knowledge Organization Systems

Knowledge organization systems can serve as gateways for human experience, mediating human interaction with knowledge. In this study of The Encyclopedia of Milwaukee, we see how concepts arise from literary warrant, but are mediated according to cultural warrant by curatorial activity, including social interaction among the interdisciplinary aggregate of authors.Les systèmes d’organisation de la connaissance peuvent servir de portail pour l’expérience humaine, de médiateur entre l’interaction humaine et la connaissance. Dans cette étude de l’Encyclopedia of Milwaukee, nous étudions comment les concepts naissent de considérations littéraires, mais se façonnent selon des considérations culturelles par le biais d’activités curatoriales, y compris les interactions sociales entre les groupes interdisciplinaires d’auteurs.

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Liberating Knowledge at the Margins

Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship ◽

10.33137/cjal-rcbu.v5.29905 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 5 ◽

pp. 1-23

Author(s):

Michael Dudley

Keyword(s):

Knowledge Organization ◽

Research Paradigm ◽

Race And Gender ◽

Knowledge Organization Systems ◽

Subject Headings ◽

The Creation ◽

And Gender

This paper proposes an LIS research paradigm by which the transactional relationships between knowledge organization systems (KOS) and external scholarly discourses may be identified and examined. It considers subject headings as discursive acts (or Foucauldian “statements”) unto themselves—in terms of their materiality, rarity, exteriority, and accumulation—arising from such discourses, and which, through their usage in library catalogues and databases, produce their own discursive and non-discursive effects. It is argued that, since these statements lead through their existence and discovery (or absence and neglect) to the creation of further texts, then potentially oppressive discursive formations may result where marginalized knowledges are concerned. The paper aims to better understand these processes in scholarly discourses—and the role of libraries therein—by examining recent examples in the LIS literature regarding matters of race and gender, and which are suggestive of this emergent paradigm.

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Discursive Psychological Approaches to the (Un)making of Sex/Gender

10.1093/oso/9780190658540.003.0006 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Ngaire Donaghue

Keyword(s):

Sex Differences ◽

Human Experience ◽

Sex And Gender ◽

Discursive Psychology ◽

Asking Questions ◽

And Gender ◽

Empirical Investigations

Discursive psychologists question the taken-for-granted status of the categories that are used to classify and investigate human experience (Potter & Edwards, 1996). Instead of assuming the “reality” of sex/gender and conducting empirical investigations into the qualities that characterize “each” of the sexes, discursive psychologists investigate how the concepts of “sex” and “gender” are constructed through their use in both scientific and everyday contexts. For discursive psychologists, there are no “pregiven” meanings attached to the categories of sex/gender. What these categories mean, what they signify, is a matter of negotiation and consensus. This chapter concerns how discursive psychologists have challenged the various assumptions underlying traditional sex differences research and considers alternate approaches drawn from discursive psychology to asking questions about sex/gender.

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