Session Description:
Information literacy is often considered an essential goal, and evokes commitments to critical thinking and informed decision-making. But what does information literacy mean when it is taught in a society plagued by inequities? Is information literacy instruction a form of neoliberal indoctrination, or a mechanism for critical exchange? Find out how academic information literacy is intertwined with capitalism, and in particular, how information literacy instruction promotes information commodification and the production of capitalist subjects. Attendees will reconsider the narrative of this cornerstone of academic librarianship, and be inspired to reimagine information literacy as a site of critical resistance.
