Tumble - Stung Eye - Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Description: Discovery and Web Services Librarian, University of Alberta
For 2021, I’ve decided to refresh my website. As a result, I will no longer be maintaining redlibrarian.github.io as of January 1, 2021. I’m going to leave the blog up so that all the posts remain available. After January 1, 2021 new blog posts, etc, will be available at spopowich.ca....
In political thought — which generally means liberal political thought — there is a tendency to “unmark” or play down political orientations that are unethical, unpopular, or are simply meant to be taken for granted. For example, in John Rawls’ Theory of Justice (1971), a book which revitalized liberal thinking...
I spend a lot of time critiquing the concept of intellectual freedom, but I rarely if ever try to articulate what alternative conception I think would be better suited to librarianship. One of the ways I think intellectual freedom is undertheorized is that, while many commentators and scholars debate the...
Tumble - Stung Eye - Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada