The incompatibility of neoliberal university structures and interdisciplinary knowledge: A feminist slow scholarship critique

Bergland, Brita

doi:10.1080/00131857.2017.1341297

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“…Movements of this kind -that prioritize the local over the global or at least a located approach to global connections and affiliations (Pink and Lewis 2014) have precedents in other practices related to sustainability, such as slow towns, local food and energy production and local currencies and trading schemes. The 'slow scholarship' movement is actually gaining circulation in some academic circles as a way to resist the pressures of an increasingly fast-paced and competitive profession (Hartman and Darab 2012;Harland et al 2015;Mountz et al 2015;Bagelman and Bagelman 2016;Evans 2016;Bergland 2017;Carr and Gibson 2017). Implicit here is a call to arms for academics to travel overseas less and to contemplate and connect at home more, suggesting an embedded critique of the normative role of air travel in universities today.…”

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The unsustainability of academic aeromobility in Australian universities

Glover

Strengers

Lewis

2017

Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy

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This article analyzes how certain forms of unsustainable hypermobility -primarily air travelare embedded in the institutional orientations of Australian universities, and hence, into the professional practices of academics in the country. Academic air travel is commonly recognized as a key component of a scholar's ability to cultivate and maintain international collaborations, achieve high-impact journal publications and win large research grants. Despite the environmental sustainability implications that regular international and domestic air travel entails, a normative system of 'academic aeromobility' has developed. We discuss the results of a qualitative textual analysis of Australian university-sustainability policies as well as research and internationalization strategies. We find that the ambitions of academic institutions to reduce carbon emissions from air travel are discordant with broader policies and strategic orientations around international mobility. These findings foreground the paradoxical relationship between many university-sustainability policies and the sector's broader strategic aims of internationalization and mobility of staff and students, suggesting the limits to piecemeal approaches to organizational policy and practices pertaining to sustainability. We conclude by discussing the role of technology and 'slow scholarship' as a means to reduce academic aeromobility. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Section: Conclusion: Reorienting Internationalization Reframing Mobmentioning

confidence: 99%

The unsustainability of academic aeromobility in Australian universities

Glover

Strengers

Lewis

2017

Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy

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“…Feminist ethics of care is based on the claim that care and support are just as important functions and outcomes in the university as are efficiency and more measurable outcomes. It is argued that by building strong relations and engaging with each other as full human beings, we can create better and more meaningful processes, results, and impacts (Bergland, 2018).…”

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“…In this paper, I aim to link Noddings' ethics of care to the role universities can play in human and sustainable development. A number of authors have done interesting fieldwork using an ethics of care perspective in university settings (see e.g., McBee, 2007;Bozalek, McMillan, Marshall, November, Daniels, & Sylvester, 2014;Scott, 2015;Done, Murphy & Knowler, 2016;Cantini, 2017;Motta & Bennett, 2018;Bergland, 2018;Lu, 2018). The paper poses the question of whether or not care ethics is something to be added to university policies.…”

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Care Ethics in Universities: Beyond an Easy “Add and Stir” Solution

Verdera

2019

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El trabajo de Nel Noddings ha representado un profundo desafío para el pensamiento androcéntrico en filosofía de la educación. El documento plantea la cuestión de si la ética del cuidado podría agregarse a las políticas universitarias. Para lograr este objetivo, se explora si la incorporación de la ética del cuidado en las políticas universitarias transformaría la orientación de la investigación, la administración universitaria y la experiencia de aprendizaje en tu totalidad. Más adelante, el documento analiza las implicaciones del significado de la ética del cuidado de Noddings como un vía para abordar la moralidad aplicada a los entornos universitarios. Finalmente, el artículo concluye ofreciendo la ética del cuidado como una alternativa a las teorías éticas tradicionales en base a sus puntos fuertes que convergen en la posibilidad real de formar mejores adultos.

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“…To stay with the trouble, as Haraway (2016) notes, is to embrace nonlinear, slow scholarship lived out through crip time (Kafer, 2013); resistance to colonial pacing (Stanton, 2014); concepts of the “future-perfect” (Rice et al, 2017); queer disruption of popular, positivist knowledge systems (Halberstam, 2005); and the possibilities of speculative design. Slowness is rooted in a radical realigning of values, including giving more weight to traditionally undervalued types of work within university systems (Bergland, 2018). As we engage in slow, online story-making, TallBear (2014) urges us to think about the ethics of accountability in digital worldmaking: “whose lives, lands, and bodies are inquired into and what do they get out of it?” (p. 7).…”

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Slow Story-Making in Urgent Times

Rice

Jones

Mündel

2022

Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies

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In the context of an alarmingly sped up “slow death” for disabled people living under emergency COVID-19 medical triage protocols in Ontario, Canada, that produce, naturalize, and weaponize our vulnerability, we assert that slow digital story-making opens a threshold space filled with complex, relational, lively collaborative worldmaking. Here, we analyze videos made by three digital/multimedia story-makers, known as experimenters, who express the turbulence they lived through via storywork that described their unique yet entwined vantage points. Following Rosi Braidotti’s caution against capitalizing on tragedy, we offer Donna Haraway’s “compost writing” as an alternative to building theory. By compos(t)ing online multimedia stories that straddle digital/human/more-than-human realms, we take up “digital composting” as an unfinished methodology wherein we move collectively, even from the isolation of our own homes. We posit slow digital story-making as a way of “staying with the trouble” as we find ourselves worldmaking at the complex threshold between life/death, vulnerability/resistance, individual/relational, human/nonhuman. To compost digital multimedia stories is to leave them to ruminate in the complex entanglements of posthuman existences in urgent times.

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The incompatibility of neoliberal university structures and interdisciplinary knowledge: A feminist slow scholarship critique

Cited by 24 publications

References 14 publications

The unsustainability of academic aeromobility in Australian universities

The unsustainability of academic aeromobility in Australian universities

Care Ethics in Universities: Beyond an Easy “Add and Stir” Solution

Slow Story-Making in Urgent Times

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