A Genealogy of Refusal

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 Natalie K Meyers 4b3948ab8901940da5f2eb884c2cc86b3dc6ac22 Anna Michelle Martinez-Montavon 1459b2fc55591cd9b08a290af468d31b5dfe46a3 Mikala Narlock db843c923469f0dadab98d57ee053b00c88a64b1 Kim Stathers b8f352d1ce6eb714d5242702eaa05362c8eae357 Multimedia project for the The Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship Special Issue on Refusing Crisis Narratives

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