In his latest publication, Daniel P Jones reflects on the current trends in the academic use of zines, and traces some of the influential factors behind the reasons that zines are having 'their moment' within the academy. The article considers the influence of research funders, and attentiveness to inclusivity in teaching and assessment, and considers the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has left people longing for more analogue approaches to their work.
Through reflecting on previous work on the politics of refusal, the anti-disciplinary nature of zines, and his own zine practice as geographer he calls for a shift to the focus on the more active verb of zineing as process and urges us to not look for the 'new frontiers', but rather back to the activist roots of zineing in order to resist neoliberal, capitalist agendas.
Daniel P Jones works on anti-ableist research as a part of the WAARC: Anti-Ableist Research Culture project, with a specific focus on inclusive research methods and accessible event facilitation, and more broadly as a disability scholar with a focus on Tourette Syndrome, public space, and solidarity.
