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• 1 media/Genealogy of Refusal.png 2021-02-14T17:04:04-08:00 A Kinship Diagram of Workplace Refusal 56 plain 2022-04-04T15:44:11-07:00
  Why bother doing a genealogy of refusal from literature, science fiction, and popular culture? If we want to confront the options for workplace refusal it helps if we acquaint ourselves with some common stories and the worlds they explore, exploit, and create. Likewise, it requires us to collaborate, commiserate, and co-create with our fellow workers. This project grew out of weekly discussions and a shared bibliography, where we explored the interplay between the theory we were reading, our lived experiences, and the media we were consuming. This ultimately culminated in the short essays and content selections that substantiate our multimedia project and our kinship diagram, a lighthearted visualization inspired by the Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship Special Issue: Refusing Crisis Narratives. We know this genealogy is, by virtue of its motivation, bound to be arbitrary, incomplete, inaccurate, and always a work in progress, open to argument, revision, and criticism. We are okay with that. Here we look at workplace refusal through art, music, dance, film, sit-coms, games, literature, and science fiction, from Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener" to Doctorow's Walkaway. We juxtapose broader cultural lineages of workplace refusal with the library profession’s specific inheritance of vocational awe.  If we have conversations about scenarios that illustrate the ways vocational awe stands in the way of our refusals, we create cultural touchstones that can illuminate our way(s) ahead.
   

  
  The above genealogy diagram was created by the authors to visualize the genealogy of refusal. To cite, please use: Natalie Meyers, Anna Michelle Martinez-Montavon, Mikala Narlock, & Kim Stathers. (2021). Genealogy of Refusal Family Tree. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4698931
  
  In "The Dangers of Cynical Sci-Fi Disaster Stories," Cory Doctorow (2020) describes how “Made-up stories, even stories of impossible things, are ways for us to mentally rehearse our responses to different social outcomes." He remarks on how Daniel Dennett’s conception of an intuition pump—“a thought experiment structured to allow the thinker to use their intuition to develop an answer to a problem”—suggests that fiction (which is, after all, an elaborate thought experiment) isn’t merely entertainment (Doctorow 2020). While science fiction authors often engage in world-building, creating entire universes with rules that differ from those their audience are accustomed to, these thought-experiments often reflect current reality, even if shrouded in metaphor. As described by Ursula K Le Guin (1979), science fiction does not work “to predict the future… but to describe reality, the present world. Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive” (156). Philip Jose Farmer (2008) wrote that "...Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury and many others, write parables. These are set in frames which have become called, for no good reason, science fiction. A better generic term would be 'future fairy tales.'" We can begin our own exercise in professional foresight by examining dystopian, utopian, satiric, and humorous workplace scenarios observed in our kinship diagram. We explore workplace refusal as depicted in satire and comedy for much the same reasons, to look at our present-day situation through the lens of popular culture. The extremes presented in this type of media help us develop an appreciation for the language of refusal.
  
  This genealogy is a launching point for understanding the librarian's role in crisis narratives in the workplace. It lets us connect the librarian's role not just to the characteristics accredited through the award of a Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) or other degree or credential, but also to other memorable characters in popular culture, and to labour and feminist work. It helps if we have a common narrative history and timeline to refer to that exists alongside of and yet "outside" the profession. We hope it spurs discussion, maybe laughter, and another way of positioning the ways librarians can say and hear "NO" as a complete sentence.
  
  Just as Bartleby lives on (and has been taken up by filmmakers, artists, literary theorists, and even RPGs), libraries and librarians don't exist apart from the culture we curate. We exist in that self-same idiosyncratic, imperfect, self-reflective culture of books, film, comics, music, history, and theory.

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• 1 2021-04-17T22:05:53-07:00 The Shock Doctrine : The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. 1 Klein, Naomi. 2007. The Shock Doctrine : The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Toronto, Canada: AA Knopf. 978-0-676-97800-1. https://naomiklein.org/the-shock-doctrine/ plain 2021-04-17T22:05:53-07:00 2007 In THE SHOCK DOCTRINE, Naomi Klein explodes the myth that the global free market triumphed democratically. Exposing the thinking, the money trail and the puppet strings behind the world-changing crises and wars of the last four decades, The Shock Doctrine is the gripping story of how America’s “free market” policies have come to dominate the world-- through the exploitation of disaster-shocked people and countries. Klein, Naomi. 2007. The Shock Doctrine : The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Toronto, Canada: AA Knopf. 978-0-676-97800-1. https://naomiklein.org/the-shock-doctrine/