UNESCO and the Global Information System

UNESCO and the Book in the Developing World

by Sarah Brouillette
Brouillette’s article, in Representations 127, establishes the importance of UNESCO’s role within the global history of the book. Its focus is the research on the book in the developing world that UNESCO sponsored in the 1960s and 1970s, and how that research supported claims that government should intervene in book and media industries in order to shift the disastrous imbalance in the global media system. It shows how these claims were undermined by the interests of the developed world and sidelined by the emerging discipline of book history.

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SARAH BROUILLETTE is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Carleton University. She is the author of Postcolonial Writers in the Global Literary Marketplace (Palgrave, 2007) and of Literature and the Creative Economy (Stanford, 2014).

New Issue, Representations 127

Representations 127, featuring a special forum on SEARCH

Edited and introduced by Kent Puckett

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FREDERIC KAPLAN  Linguistic Capitalism and Algorithmic Mediation
TED UNDERWOOD  Theorizing Research Practices We Forgot to Theorize Twenty Years         Ago
LISA GITELMAN  Searching and Thinking About Searching JSTOR
DANIEL ROSENBERG  Stop, Words
LEAH PRICE  Response

Plus:

ERIC BULSON
Ulysses by Numbers

SARAH BROUILLETTE
Unesco and the Book in the Developing World

And:

FIELD NOTES: Catherine Malabou, The King’s Two (Biopolitical) Bodies