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Slow Scholarship.pdf
ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies (2015)
  • Alison Mountz, Wilfrid Laurier University
  • Anne Bonds, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  • Becky Mansfield, Ohio State University
  • Jenna Loyd, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  • Jennifer Hyndman, York University
  • Margaret Walton-Roberts, Wilfrid Laurier University
  • Ranu Basu, York University
  • Risa Whitson, Ohio University
  • Roberta Hawkins, University of Guelph
  • Trina Hamilton, University at Buffalo (SUNY)
  • Winifred S Curran
Abstract
The neoliberal university requires high productivity in compressed time frames. Though the neoliberal transformation of the university is well documented, the isolating effects and embodied work conditions
of such increasing demands are too rarely discussed. In this article, we develop a feminist ethics of care that challenges these working conditions. Our politics foreground collective action and the contention that good scholarship requires time to think, write, read, research, analyze, edit, organize, and resist the growing administrative and professional demands that disrupt these crucial processes of intellectual growth and personal freedom. This collectively written article explores alternatives to the fast-paced, metric-oriented neoliberal university through a slow-moving conversation on ways to slow down and claim time for slow scholarship and collective action informed by feminist politics. We examine temporal regimes of the neoliberal university and their embodied effects. We then consider strategies for slowing scholarship with the objective of contributing to the slow scholarship movement. This slowing down represents both a commitment to good scholarship, teaching, and service and a collective feminist ethics of care that challenges the accelerated time and elitism of the neoliberal university. Above all, we argue in favor of the slow scholarship movement and contribute some resistance strategies that foreground collaborative, collective, communal ways forward.
Keywords
  • slow scholarship,
  • neoliberal university,
  • resistance,
  • collective action,
  • feminism
Disciplines
Publication Date
2015
Citation Information
Alison Mountz, Anne Bonds, Becky Mansfield, Jenna Loyd, et al.. "Slow Scholarship.pdf" ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies Vol. 14 Iss. 4 (2015) p. 1235 - 1259 ISSN: 1492-9732
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/winifred_curran/14/