As we all celebrate the new year, and make resolutions to break, we thought it would be a good opportunity to revisit the topic of burnout, including ideas for how to avoid it in the year ahead.
Following a new intro from Cian, meandering through new years day thoughts, we are re-run a previous interview with sociologist Laurence Cox to discuss the bane of every activist's existence - burnout. The pair outline where burnout stems from, the ways in which it changes how we organise, and what steps we can take on a personal and organisational level to go about countering and preventing it.
Read some rupture authors' new years resolutions here: https://rupture.ie/articles/new-years-resolutions-for-the-tireless-socialist
Read Lawrence Cox's paper on burnout here: https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/2201/
Check out his previous interview in Rupture issue 6 here: https://rupture.ie/articles/learn-from-each-others-struggles-an-interview-with-laurence-cox and part two in issue 7 here: https://rupture.ie/articles/learn-from-each-others-struggles
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