Music, middle childhood and agency:The value of an interactional-relational approach

This article considers the implications of children’s out-of-school musical experiences and activities for conceptualisations of child agency. In particular, it engages with differing approaches to relational agency and considers their value for understanding music-related practice during middle childhood. Accounts from children (n = 111) living in three parts of England are explored, and the subsequent analysis provides the basis for proposing the potential of an interactional–relational approach for approaching questions about children’s agency within such domains of practice and beyond

Children’s agency in the modern primary classroom

This paper examines where and how children achieve agency in the primary classroom, drawing on a multimodal ethnography of the Year One classroom. It utilises a relational conceptualisation of agency, where children act purposively to achieve outcomes of educational relevance. It demonstrates that children achieve agency performing ‘good’ and ‘clever’ child subject positions, helping to make classroom life more liveable, although this form of agency is limited when dealing with unexpected challenges. Children also deviate, finding moments to pursue desires and ways of knowing not provided for within the classroom, insinuating a political critique of the current education system

Volvariella (Pluteacae, Basidiomycota) en el Norte de la Argentina

Fil: Niveiro, Nicolás. Universidad Nacional del Nordeste. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales y Agrimensura; Argentina.Fil: Niveiro, Nicolás. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Instituto de Botánica del Nordeste; Argentina.Fil: Ramírez, Natalia Andrea. Universidad Nacional del Nordeste. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales y Agrimensura; Argentina.Fil: Ramírez, Natalia Andrea. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Instituto de Botánica del Nordeste; Argentina.Fil: Popoff, Orlando Fabián. Universidad Nacional del Nordeste. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales y Agrimensura; Argentina.Fil: Popoff, Orlando Fabián. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Instituto de Botánica del Nordeste; Argentina.Fil: Albertó, Edgardo Omar. Universidad Nacional de San Martín; Argentina.Fil: Albertó, Edgardo Omar. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Instituto de Investigaciones Biotecnológicas; Argentina.Se describen e ilustran tres especies de Volvariella para el Norte de la Argentina: V. taylorii, conocida para las selvas de Yungas y Paranaense; V. subxerophytica, conocida exclusivamente para los bosques xerófilos de la región chaqueña y V. pusilla encontrada en las provincias del Chaco y Tucumán. Las dos primeras se caracterizan por poseer volva castaña grisácea y superficie del píleo fibrillosa mientras que la última se caracteriza por su volva blanca grisácea y superficie del píleo glabra a muy delicadamente fibrillosa. Se registra por primera vez para Argentina a V. taylorii y se amplía el área de distribución de V. subxerophytica para el sector oriental de la región chaqueña. Es importante destacar que V. subxerophytica era conocida sólo por el material tipo y mediante los nuevos ejemplares hallados fue posible mejorar la descripción original.Three species of Volvariella from Northern Argentina are illustrated and described. Volvariella taylorii, known from the Yungas and the Paranaense Rain Forests; V. subxerophytica, known exclusively from the xerophytic forest from “chaqueña” region, and V. pusilla which was found in Chaco and Tucumán provinces. The two former species are characterized by having brownish-grayish volva and the fibrillose pileus, and the later by its whitish-grayish volva and the finely and delicately fibrillose surface of the pileus. Volvariella taylorii is recorded for the first time from Argentina and the area of distribution of V. subxerophytica is expanded towards the oriental area of the “chaqueña” region. It is important to mention that V. subxerophytica was only known by the type material and that in this work the original description is improved with data obtained from new specimens

Social welfare versus transnational social protection regimes: the changing roles of church and state

peer-reviewedThe full text of this article will not be available in ULIR until the embargo expires on the 06/09/2022In this article we argue that transnational social protection (TSP) is becoming the norm in the context of globalisation, heightened mobility and neoliberalism, but cannot be understood without addressing its religious components. TSP differs significantly from national welfare state regimes, which place the responsibility for providing social support firmly on the shoulders of the state. In contrast, TSP regimes involve multiple actors and opportunities in origin and receiving states and place most of the onus for social protection on individuals and families. This article investigates church and state interaction in the development of TSP across the Italian, Mexican and Filipino contexts. It advances scholarship in three key ways: first, it showcases how TSP is replacing state social welfare arrangements and brings to light those shifting church-state entanglements that are central to this shift; second, it highlights the historically rooted trajectories of church-state entanglements that these three cases have in common; and third, it shows that as TSP becomes a state tool in governing non-resident citizens, the church's critical stance in relation to state provisioning is central to TSP as a mode of migration government.peer-reviewe