Reducing the drag: creating v formations through slow scholarship and story
Edited book (chapter)
Chapter Title | Reducing the drag: creating v formations through slow scholarship and story |
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Book Chapter Category | Edited book (chapter) |
ERA Publisher ID | 3228 |
Book Title | Producing pleasure within the contemporary university |
Authors | Black, Alison L. (Author), Crimmins, Gail (Author) and Jones, Janice K. (Author) |
Editors | Riddle, Stewart, Harmes, Marcus K. and Danaher, Patrick Alan |
Volume | 59 |
Page Range | 137-155 |
Series | Bold Visions in Educational Research |
Chapter Number | 11 |
Number of Pages | 19 |
Year | 2017 |
Publisher | Sense Publishers |
Place of Publication | Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
ISBN | 9789463511773 |
9789463511797 | |
Web Address (URL) | https://www.sensepublishers.com/catalogs/bookseries/bold-visions-in-educational-research/producing-pleasure-in-the-contemporary-university/ |
Abstract | Every seed destroys its container, or else there would be no fruition (Scott-Maxwell, 1979). We are three women working across two Australian universities. Frustrated at the deadening, withering nature and containment of the neoliberal university, and inspired by the wisdom of slow scholarship and the cooperative reciprocity inherent in the V formations adopted by groups of flying birds to boost vital energy, our chapter encapsulates our efforts to ‘care for self and others’ and ‘count what others don’t’. It follows our attempts to resist the insidious, diminishing drag of metric-based audits and managerialism. Having joyfully discovered we have ‘outgrown’ narrow academic containers of measurement, comparison, and productivity, we are responding to our longing to connect and to ‘be’ differently in academia. Our resistance is characterised by efforts to listen and converse in meaningful ways, ways that speak our lives into the academy. For over a year we have been initiating conversations with a trusted group of colleagues and acquiring responsive, personal and aesthetic ways to address and reconcile our personal/professional lives. Inviting the reader into our deliberate storying and de-storying of our lived experience whilst practicing a politics of care, collaboration and authenticity, we are subverting what it means to be productive and accountable and what it means to be an academic. And in so doing we are seeding new and fruitful ways of working. We are unearthing our individual and collective voice, and creating and expanding safe spaces for scholarly, professional and personal disclosure and meaning-making. |
Keywords | wellbeing in academia; slow scholarship; narrative research; women’s lives in academia; collaborative authorship; performativity; collective voice; meaning making |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 390499. Specialist studies in education not elsewhere classified |
Public Notes | All rights reserved © 2017 Sense Publishers. |
Byline Affiliations | University of the Sunshine Coast |
School of Linguistics, Adult and Specialist Education | |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q3yq3/reducing-the-drag-creating-v-formations-through-slow-scholarship-and-story
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