OVERDUE: Weeding Out Oppression in Libraries
OVERDUE: Weeding Out Oppression in Libraries
OLA EDI & Antiracism Committee
S3, E5: Escaping the Vocational Awe Trap w/Fobazi Ettarh
1 hour 7 minutes Posted Jul 31, 2024 at 2:00 pm.
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Send us Fan Mail In this episode we are joined in conversation by scholar, academic consultant, librarian and educational game designer, Fobzi Ettarh, who notably coined the concept of "vocational awe" in 2018. Ettarh shares how vocational awe operates at both the micro and macro levels, contributing to problematic hiring, onboarding, and retention practices in the library profession, and illustrates how this concept directly ties to workplace inequities and burnout. Additionally, Ettarh pro...