2022 has been a year of overlapping crises. The so-called “Freedom Convoys” paralyzing Canadian communities, the COVID-19 pandemic continuing to cause excess death and disability, the war in Ukraine, the intensifying effects of climate change, and increasing inflation have all signaled that we find ourselves in a new era, one that can be described as authoritarian capitalism. In this article, we view the restructuring of Canadian universities as yet another facet of authoritarian capitalism, which uses overlapping crises to further proletarianize library labour and fully subsume it into the “learning factory.” Using Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson’s theorization of the politics of capital’s operations, we examine the library restructuring...
AbstractA cacophony of crises challenges neoliberalism and marks a fundamental reversal in capitalis...
To learn about the experiences of librarians working through COVID-19, we conducted semi-structured ...
This book chapter argues that Canadian academic libraries have largely failed to maximize the opport...
2022 has been a year of overlapping crises. The so-called “Freedom Convoys” paralyzing Canadian comm...
This paper begins and ends with a provocation: I argue that refusal in librarianship is both impossi...
Librarians have responded to the decades-long “serials crisis” with a common narrative and a range o...
In this paper, we consider what we identify as crisis surveillance capitalism in higher education, d...
This article looks at librarianship from a Marxist economic perspective, arguing that crises within ...
In this paper, we argue that the crisis of teaching can be understood as a crisis of labour that con...
Crisis narratives are stories meant to persuade that one exists in a state of emergency. Under extra...
This article analyzes current trends in academic librarianship from the perspective of Italian auton...
Canadian academic libraries are unionized environments, requiring collective organization and action...
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 March and April of 2021, my co-investigators and I conducted semi-structured interviews with acad...
AbstractA cacophony of crises challenges neoliberalism and marks a fundamental reversal in capitalis...
To learn about the experiences of librarians working through COVID-19, we conducted semi-structured ...
This book chapter argues that Canadian academic libraries have largely failed to maximize the opport...
2022 has been a year of overlapping crises. The so-called “Freedom Convoys” paralyzing Canadian comm...
This paper begins and ends with a provocation: I argue that refusal in librarianship is both impossi...
Librarians have responded to the decades-long “serials crisis” with a common narrative and a range o...
In this paper, we consider what we identify as crisis surveillance capitalism in higher education, d...
This article looks at librarianship from a Marxist economic perspective, arguing that crises within ...
In this paper, we argue that the crisis of teaching can be understood as a crisis of labour that con...
Crisis narratives are stories meant to persuade that one exists in a state of emergency. Under extra...
This article analyzes current trends in academic librarianship from the perspective of Italian auton...
Canadian academic libraries are unionized environments, requiring collective organization and action...
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 March and April of 2021, my co-investigators and I conducted semi-structured interviews with acad...
AbstractA cacophony of crises challenges neoliberalism and marks a fundamental reversal in capitalis...
To learn about the experiences of librarians working through COVID-19, we conducted semi-structured ...
This book chapter argues that Canadian academic libraries have largely failed to maximize the opport...