Alexander Samuel Popowich

• BA (Manitoba)
• MLIS (Dalhousie)
• MA (Carleton)

• Popowich, S. (2021). “Compound brain or general intellect? Paolo Virno’s transindividuality”, New Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Inquiry 11(3).
• Popowich, S. (2021). ‘Canadian librarianship and the politics of recognition’, Partnership, 16(1), pp. 1-23.
• Popowich, S. (2021). ‘Wittgenstein and intellectual freedom’, Journal of Radical Librarianship, 7.
• Popowich, S. (2019). Confronting the democratic discourse of librarianship. Sacramento: Library Juice Press.
• “Libraries, Labour, Capital: On Formal and Real Subsumption”, Journal of Radical Librarianship 4 (2018).
• "Ruthless Criticism of All that Exists": Marxism, Technology, and Library Work”, in Karen P. Nicholson and Maura Seale (eds.) The Politics of Theory and the Practice of Critical Librarianship (Sacramento: Library Juice Press, 2018). 

• The Onus of Explationation (Future Information Professionals keynote, 2021)
• What Do We Mean by ‘Structural’ Oppression? (CAPAL 2021)

Born in Winnipeg, Popowich became a librarian in 2007, working at the University of Manitoba, University of Ottawa, and University of Alberta libraries. He is interested in the intersection of Marxism, technology, and library work.

• Marxism
• Political Theory
• Cultural Studies
• Library and Information Studies
• Politics of Technology

• Canadian Association of Professional Academic Librarians
• Canadian Political Science Association

Sam Popowich is a member of the Canadian Association of Professional Academic Librarians, and is the Chair of the Programme Committee for the 2019 Annual Conference.