The Library in the Lives of Latino College Students

Libraries share a perception of embracing and providing for all users. However, they also share a common philosophical stance shaped by librarians' individual discursive formations and the dominant cultural hegemony that values some users over others. Latinos constitute one of the fastest-growing, nondominant populations in the United States, and the literature suggests that libraries do not always serve them adequately. This was reinforced by interviews with seven Latino undergraduate students that suggest ambiguous feelings toward libraries and a strong need for some sort of cultural reinforcement. This study of users' perceptions of libraries may help librarians and policy makers consider more pluralistic approaches to library services.Publisher's PDF (Embargo Over)Includes bibliographical references

Experimenting with Wellbeing: Basic Income, Immaterial Labour and Changing Forms of Productivity

This article is concerned with the recent (2017-2018) basic income experiment in Finland. This experiment attracted global attention, not least because of its break from the conditionalities and sanctions associated with social security payments in workfare states. This article stresses, however, that it is critical to understand how the Finnish basic income experiment was part of a broader programme of government-led reform in Finland. As well as establishing the experiment as a preferred mode of policymaking, this programme contained a range of strategies aimed at restructuring labour supply. The article shows how the basic income experiment should be understood as a behavioural intervention designed to enhance the wellbeing of unemployed populations at a time when wellbeing is emerging as a value-producing capacity

Economizing the political: Workfare reform in strategic management mode

The focus of this article is a recent round of workfare reform in Finland. Departing from many existing analyses of workfare, it focuses on issues of governance. Drawing on policy documents and interviews with key policy actors, it shows how this reform and attempts at implementation took place along the lines of a specific form of managerial governance, namely strategic governance, involving the enrolment of strategic management into policy making. The article details how this mode of policy making enabled an intensification and depoliticization of workfare policies via the replacement of political concerns with economic imperatives and in so doing contributed to the broader process of economization of the state. While the latter is often located as central to the project of neoliberalism, the practices through which it is instantiated often remain hazy. This article therefore contributes knowledge on how the process of the economization of the political operates in practice

Concert recording 2018-02-20b

[Track 1]. Se tu m\u27ami / Alessandro Parisotti -- [Track 2]. Feldeinsamkeit / Johannes Brahms -- [Track 3]. Im abendrot / Franz Schubert -- [Track 4]. Les chemins d\u27lamour / Francis Poulenc -- [Track 5]. Oh, glory! / Hall Johnson, arranger -- [Track 6]. Heiss mich nicht reden / Robert Schumann

Concert recording 2018-04-16

[Track 1]. Music for a while / Henry Purcell -- [Track 2]. Lachen und Weinen / Franz Schubert -- [Track 3]. Sebben crudele / Antonio Caldara -- [Track 4]. Money, o! / Michael Head -- [Track 5]. Les Berceaux / Gabriel Fauré -- [Track 6]. Music I heard with you / Richard Hageman -- [Track 7]. Die Forelle / Schubert -- [Track 8]. Take, o take those lips away / Roger Quilter -- [Track 9]. La pastorella delle Alpi / Gioachino Rossini -- [Track 10]. Pastorale / Georges Bizet -- [Track 11]. Laudamus te from Mass in C minor, K. 427 / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- [Track 12]. Winter / Dominick Argento -- [Track 13]. From Canciones clásicos españos. I. La mi sola, Laureola II. Al amor III. ¿Corazón porqué pasáis IV. Chiquitita la novia / Fenando Obradors -- [Track 14]. From Lieder und Gesänge aus Wilhelm Meister, op. 98a. Kennst du das Land Nur Wer die Sehnsucht kennt Heiss mich nicht reden, heiss mich schweigen / Robert Schumann -- [Track 15]. Non t\u27accostar all\u27urna / Schubert Non t\u27accostar all\u27urna / Giuseppe Verdi -- Плач об умершем младенце / Dmitri Shostakovich -- [Track 16]. Airs Chantés. I. Air Romantique II. Air Champêtre III. Air Grave IV. Air Vif / Francis Poulenc