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 Multimedia project for the The Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship Special Issue on Refusing Crisis Narratives

Table of Contents

33948 Table of Contents A straightforward list of the main pages in the "Genealogy of Refusal" project. This path has been curated and ordered by the authors.

This page has paths:

  1. Strategies of Refusal Natalie K Meyers
  2. Multiple Paths Anna Michelle Martinez-Montavon

Contents of this path:

  1. Crisis narratives frame our response
  2. Bartleby at the Wall
  3. Proud Descendants who "Prefer not to"
  4. A Kinship Diagram of Workplace Refusal
  5. Satire is rich
  6. Dark side of parody
  7. When Expectations Cross the line
  8. Why don't librarians "Just say No"?
  9. Feminized Labour
  10. Superhero Librarians
  11. I am not your hero
  12. The invocation of crisis narratives is relentless
  13. No individual solution to our problems
  14. What refusal can we take up?
  15. Manifest NO
  16. Asset Framing
  17. Bibliography
  18. Glossary of Key Concepts
  19. Multiple Paths
  20. Genealogy of Refusal Timeline
  21. About the Authors
  22. We welcome contributions