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A Genealogy of Refusal : Walking away from crisis and scarcity narrativesMain MenuCrisis narratives frame our responseBartleby at the WallHow 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 lineageA Kinship Diagram of Workplace RefusalSatire is richComedic instances of workplace refusal are especially powerfulDark side of parodyMore SatireWhen Expectations Cross the lineWhy don't librarians "Just say No"?Do we prefer to suffer in silence because its a vocation and not "just a job"Feminized LabourSaying Yes all the TimeSuperhero LibrariansIt’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a librarian!I am not your heroMurderbot: the alternate patron saint for librariansThe invocation of crisis narratives is relentlessNo individual solution to our problemsDebunking myths that hold us back to enable collective ways of moving forwardWhat refusal can we take up?A Cosmic GiftManifest NOBecoming fluent in hearing and saying NoAsset FramingBibliographyWorks cited, featured, mentioned and consulted for Genealogy of Refusal projectMultiple PathsA compendium of paths through the Genealogy of Refusal content: a choose-your-own-adventure approach to this companion piece.Genealogy of Refusal TimelineWe welcome contributionsLearn how to contribute to this projectAbout the AuthorsNatalie K Meyers4b3948ab8901940da5f2eb884c2cc86b3dc6ac22Anna Michelle Martinez-Montavon1459b2fc55591cd9b08a290af468d31b5dfe46a3Mikala Narlockdb843c923469f0dadab98d57ee053b00c88a64b1Kim Stathersb8f352d1ce6eb714d5242702eaa05362c8eae357Multimedia project for the The Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship Special Issue on Refusing Crisis Narratives
Glossary
12021-09-14T12:41:42-07:00Anna Michelle Martinez-Montavon1459b2fc55591cd9b08a290af468d31b5dfe46a3339483plain2021-09-14T13:05:35-07:00Anna Michelle Martinez-Montavon1459b2fc55591cd9b08a290af468d31b5dfe46a3Learn more about the key concepts of this project, with links to key sources and connections to the main text of the genealogy.
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1media/network.png2021-04-12T11:11:43-07:00Natalie K Meyers4b3948ab8901940da5f2eb884c2cc86b3dc6ac22Multiple PathsAnna Michelle Martinez-Montavon14A compendium of paths through the Genealogy of Refusal content: a choose-your-own-adventure approach to this companion piece.visual_path10430302021-09-14T13:30:18-07:00Anna Michelle Martinez-Montavon1459b2fc55591cd9b08a290af468d31b5dfe46a3
1media/network.png2021-04-12T11:11:43-07:00Multiple Paths17A compendium of paths through the Genealogy of Refusal content: a choose-your-own-adventure approach to this companion piece.visual_path10430302021-09-14T13:34:12-07:00 The authors have set forth a straightforward table of contents path through this Scalar project. But, readers are especially invited to enter the work in other ways. Here are a few different ways to enter and interact with the project, that in turn lead to others.
Explore the connections between pages, paths, and media.
Readers are invited to consider what in the below network could be simplified? What could be restructured? Does what you encounter first, or last, or by happenstance change the message of the work?