Abstract
Extractive practices of colonial land theft and environmental exploitation have produced intolerable global conditions leading to climate collapse. As the information field grapples with its culpability in colonial violence and climate change, Lydia Zvyagintseva and Mary Greenshields’s incisive Land in Libraries: Toward a Materialist Conception of Education draws contributions from practitioners in the United States and Canada to chart a way forward. Through historical analysis, case studies, critical theory, and autoethnography, authors in this volume take up land – and our relation to it – as the epistemological catalyst for systemic change. At once austere critique and lyrical contemplation, Land in Libraries is a gripping collection recommended for anyone in the discipline, especially practitioners of settler and immigrant heritage in North America, searching for meaningful ways to orient their practice toward justice, decoloniality, and climate recovery.
Recommended Citation
Szapiro, Anna Z.
(2026)
"Review of Land in Libraries: Toward a Materialist Conception of Education,"
Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies: Vol. 13, Article 2.
Available at:
https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol13/iss1/2