On impersonal justice: libraries' neutrality as an act of change

IF 1.7 3区管理学 Q2 INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE

Journal of Documentation Pub Date : 2023-04-18 DOI:10.1108/jd-10-2022-0227

Antonella Foderaro

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Abstract

PurposeThis study introduces Simone Weil's impersonal justice concept and its relevance to libraries' identity and role in societies. The article presents the constituents of impersonal justice and a theoretical justification for the coexistence of neutrality with libraries' commitment to social causes.Design/methodology/approachConceptual analysis of 3 Weil's works, 13 scientific articles and 12 libraries' official documents was applied, looking at relevant concepts and findings, contexts of use, arguments and types of authority.FindingsFive constituents of impersonal justice were found: universality, concreteness, unicity, inviolability and inappropriability. Impersonal justice, based on the inviolable value of each individual and the universal expectation of good, allows for a more accurate definition of social justice. Besides, it justifies libraries' commitment to climate change, migrants and Black lives matter, among other causes.Originality/valueIn contrast to previous works, this paper focuses on clarifying concepts by applying conceptual analysis to Weil's works, Library and Information Science (LIS) sources in scientific and normative contexts. Additionally, the analysis of arguments and types of authority for justifying claims pro and against neutrality allows the reconstruction of the argumentative discourse beyond the examined sources.

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论客观公正:图书馆的中立性是一种变革行为

目的介绍西蒙娜·韦尔的非人格化正义概念及其与图书馆身份和社会角色的关系。本文提出了客观公正的构成要素，并为图书馆的社会事业承诺与中立共存提供了理论依据。设计/方法/方法:对Weil的3部作品、13篇科学论文和12个图书馆的官方文件进行概念分析，研究相关概念和发现、使用背景、论点和权威类型。发现客观正义的五个构成要素:普遍性、具体性、唯一性、不可侵犯性和不可占有性。基于每个人不可侵犯的价值和对善的普遍期望的非个人正义，允许对社会正义作出更准确的定义。此外，它证明了图书馆在气候变化、移民和黑人生命问题等方面的承诺是合理的。与之前的作品相比，本文侧重于通过对Weil的作品，科学和规范背景下的图书馆与信息科学(LIS)来源进行概念分析来澄清概念。此外，对论证和证明主张支持和反对中立的权威类型的分析，允许在审查的来源之外重建论证话语。

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Journal of Documentation INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE-

CiteScore

4.20

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14.30%

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期刊介绍： The scope of the Journal of Documentation is broadly information sciences, encompassing all of the academic and professional disciplines which deal with recorded information. These include, but are certainly not limited to: ■Information science, librarianship and related disciplines ■Information and knowledge management ■Information and knowledge organisation ■Information seeking and retrieval, and human information behaviour ■Information and digital literacies