Resilient or Resistant Librarians?: An Exploration of "Resilience" Discourses In Contemporary Librarianship

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Joel Blechinger

• This presentation explores discourses of "resilience" in contemporary librarianship, analyzing the term using excerpts from "Resilient Life: The Art of Living Dangerously" by Brad Evans and Julian Reid. What might it mean about this historical moment in librarianship - and in society at large - that we expect "resilience" of so many entities and individuals? Are there issues in contemporary librarianship where the profession would be better served by a resistant rather than resilient stance?

• Date created

  2020-02-07

• Subjects / Keywords

  • resistance
  • biopolitics
  • neoliberalism
  • librarianship
  • resilience
  • discourse

• Type of Item

  Conference/Workshop Presentation

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-7tvg-hf62

• License

  Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International