This paper begins and ends with a provocation: I argue that refusal in librarianship is both impossible and necessary. Reviewing examples of crisis narratives which permeate both American and Canadian universities, I take a materialist perspective on the idea of refusal within academic librarianship. To do so, I draw on the work of Audra Simpson, Kyle Whyte, Eve Tuck, Mario Tronti, and Rinaldo Walcott to examine the sites of impossibility of refusal in the practice of academic librarianship within contemporary neoliberal education institutions. Then, I analyze the totality of capitalism in setting the limit for the practice of refusal through case studies of direct action, including the Icelandic Women’s Strike of 1975 and the 2020 Scholar ...
Presentation. Critical Librarianship & Pedagogy Symposium, November 15-16, 2018, The University of A...
This article looks at librarianship from a Marxist economic perspective, arguing that crises within ...
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the political position of academic librarianship i...
2022 has been a year of overlapping crises. The so-called “Freedom Convoys” paralyzing Canadian comm...
Librarians have responded to the decades-long “serials crisis” with a common narrative and a range o...
2022 has been a year of overlapping crises. The so-called “Freedom Convoys” paralyzing Canadian comm...
Crisis narratives are stories meant to persuade that one exists in a state of emergency. Under extra...
This essay explores the social-psychic toll of prolonged austerity on academic librarians and the ra...
This essay explores the social-psychic toll of prolonged austerity on academic librarians and the ra...
In this paper, we argue that the crisis of teaching can be understood as a crisis of labour that con...
What does it mean to support intellectual freedom under the new administration? How do we uphold our...
Shared professional ethics are an important aspect of North American librarianship; these ethics hig...
In this paper, we consider what we identify as crisis surveillance capitalism in higher education, d...
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the political position of academic librarianship in...
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the political position of academic librarianship in...
Presentation. Critical Librarianship & Pedagogy Symposium, November 15-16, 2018, The University of A...
This article looks at librarianship from a Marxist economic perspective, arguing that crises within ...
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the political position of academic librarianship i...
2022 has been a year of overlapping crises. The so-called “Freedom Convoys” paralyzing Canadian comm...
Librarians have responded to the decades-long “serials crisis” with a common narrative and a range o...
2022 has been a year of overlapping crises. The so-called “Freedom Convoys” paralyzing Canadian comm...
Crisis narratives are stories meant to persuade that one exists in a state of emergency. Under extra...
This essay explores the social-psychic toll of prolonged austerity on academic librarians and the ra...
This essay explores the social-psychic toll of prolonged austerity on academic librarians and the ra...
In this paper, we argue that the crisis of teaching can be understood as a crisis of labour that con...
What does it mean to support intellectual freedom under the new administration? How do we uphold our...
Shared professional ethics are an important aspect of North American librarianship; these ethics hig...
In this paper, we consider what we identify as crisis surveillance capitalism in higher education, d...
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the political position of academic librarianship in...
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the political position of academic librarianship in...
Presentation. Critical Librarianship & Pedagogy Symposium, November 15-16, 2018, The University of A...
This article looks at librarianship from a Marxist economic perspective, arguing that crises within ...
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the political position of academic librarianship i...