Response Paper: An Embodied Reflection of/to/about Slow Scholarship (Or How to Practise Care and Resistance in Neoliberal Academia)

Abstract

Departing from the resonances between “finding a unicorn in the woods” and my politics and daily practices of living and working inside the university, this piece engages with issues of speed, competition, and individualism in the neoliberal university. More importantly, it looks at the possibilities for resistance in and around contemporary academia, through the lens of slow scholarship and slowness, as a mode of feminist activism and of activating feminist care.