…until the next National Librarian’s Day (April 16, 2009), but if you need a fix of your favorite Local Librarian before then, I’ve got a couple of options for you: (1) Emily has a piece in Radical Catologing, a new collection on the politics and possibilities of library practices, with articles addressing “the implications behind [...]
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12-May-08Neoliberalism and Conscription
21-Apr-08One of the best articles I’ve read recently is Deborah Cowen’s Fighting for Freedom: The End of Conscription in the United States and the Neoliberal Project of Citizenship. It’s a really tight, focused read on the relationship between the restructuring of welfare programs in the U.S. and the end of the draft/launch of an all-volunteer [...]
New State Spaces
14-Jan-08My digging into the history of welfare states and state theory has led me to New State Spaces: Urban Governance and the Rescaling of Statehood, by Neil Brenner. The book offers an incredible synthesis of writing on the state and globalization from the past several decades towards a theory and method of scale analysis. Brenner [...]