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A Genealogy of Refusal : Walking away from crisis and scarcity narratives
Main Menu
Crisis narratives frame our response
Bartleby at the Wall
How can fiction and popular culture inform the way we promulgate or refuse crisis & scarcity narratives in librarianship?
Proud Descendants who "Prefer not to"
Some recent gems from Bartleby's lineage
A Kinship Diagram of Workplace Refusal
Satire is rich
Comedic instances of workplace refusal are especially powerful
Dark side of parody
More Satire
When Expectations Cross the line
Why don't librarians "Just say No"?
Do we prefer to suffer in silence because its a vocation and not "just a job"
Feminized Labour
Saying Yes all the Time
Superhero Librarians
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a librarian!
I am not your hero
Murderbot: the alternate patron saint for librarians
The invocation of crisis narratives is relentless
No individual solution to our problems
Debunking myths that hold us back to enable collective ways of moving forward
What refusal can we take up?
A Cosmic Gift
Manifest NO
Becoming fluent in hearing and saying No
Asset Framing
Bibliography
Works cited, featured, mentioned and consulted for Genealogy of Refusal project
Glossary of Key Concepts
Multiple Paths
A compendium of paths through the Genealogy of Refusal content: a choose-your-own-adventure approach to this companion piece.
Genealogy of Refusal Timeline
We welcome contributions
Learn how to contribute to this project
About the Authors
Natalie K Meyers
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Anna Michelle Martinez-Montavon
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Mikala Narlock
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Kim Stathers
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Multimedia project for the The Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship Special Issue on Refusing Crisis Narratives
Common Ground
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