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

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The authors have set forth the following path through this Scalar project. Readers are invited to enter the work in other ways, to consider how the path could be changed: what could be added or removed? What could be restructured? Would this change the message of the work?

This page has paths:

  1. Strategies of Refusal Natalie K Meyers

Contents of this path:

  1. The invocation of crisis narratives is relentless
  2. Crisis narratives frame our response
  3. Bartleby at the Wall
  4. Proud Descendents who "Prefer not to"
  5. A Kinship Diagram of Workplace Refusal
  6. Satire is rich
  7. Dark side of parody
  8. When Expectations Cross the line
  9. Why don't librarians "Just say No"?
  10. I am not your hero
  11. No individual solution to our problems
  12. What Refusal can we take up?
  13. Ways Forward?
  14. Asset Framing
  15. Bibliography
  16. We welcome contributions