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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 TimeI 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 projectGlossary of Key ConceptsMultiple 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
Superhero Librarians
1media/Screen Shot 2021-04-15 at 5.52.16 PM.png2021-04-15T14:42:11-07:00Mikala Narlockdb843c923469f0dadab98d57ee053b00c88a64b1339482plain2021-04-15T14:42:50-07:00Mikala Narlockdb843c923469f0dadab98d57ee053b00c88a64b1The Hero Narrative is nothing new in librarianship. Libraries are engaging in valuable and meaningful work as the sustainers of curated collections and knowledge that will be passed along to future generations. Yet the way generations of librarians uncomfortably wear the mantle of our benignant profession perpetuates a genre of hero narratives all its own. These are stories in which librarians as hero first responders step into the wake of natural disasters, sifting through toppled stacks after earthquakes, salvaging materials after floods, or are required to go in during a literal pandemic to provide access to content under the term "Hero.:
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1media/stopsayinghero_thumb.png2021-04-15T14:32:23-07:00Stop saying hero1Tweet in favor of closing the library because the word hero, in a pandemic, is synonymous to a 'person I’m willing to let die for my own convenience'media/stopsayinghero.pngplain2021-04-15T14:32:24-07:00
