Abstract
This paper explores our journey as three female academics as we collaboratively engage in the process of writing for scholarly publication. We read our experience through Tronto’s (2013) political Ethic of Care (EoC), Slow scholarship (Bozalek, 2017) and Sympoiesis (Haraway, 2016). Informed by Barad’s (2007) relational ontology of space~time~mattering we explore our process of collaborative writing. We trace our journey as emerging scholars in different environments and through different modalities and material entanglements. The paper contributes to an understanding of how emerging academics can find and create opportunities to develop their scholarly practice through collaborative sympoietic relationships. We show that through an engaged and sustained Slow scholarship we were able to claim space and time to enliven our creativity and joy. This empowered us to meaningfully assert ourselves within the context of a neoliberal academic environment. Furthermore this enabled us to reimagine how socially just practices of scholarly writing could be realised in the ‘belly of the beast’.
Highlights
Connecting and context ‘An ontological turn to say something anew to see something anew intelligibility no longer human touch and feeling... becoming through multiple connections...’ (CHEC, 2018: 20)
We explore our journey of collaboratively developing our capacity for scholarly publication within the challenges of a neoliberal university
We draw on Barad’s (2007) relational ontology of space~time~mattering which refers to the material entanglements which emerge in and through relationships between space, time and matter
Summary
We drew on each other's strengths and took on different leadership roles at different times. We started compartmentalising things and moving back to do individual work and it means that we are not engaging with one another and reading together As soon as this started, we could feel that things were slipping and we were pressuring ourselves and starting to resist this way of doing. These insights and our own feelings of collective and individual mourning forced us to begin to pay attention to the need to hold the space for Slow scholarship. These include asking the right questions, keeping the focus on the process of readingwritingbecoming, mindfulness and attentiveness to the personal and professional, actively practicing Slow scholarship, working in creative ways and through different spaces, standing in solidarity and working collectively, and finding joy and pleasure through scholarship What are the key practices, values and processes we need to expand on, in order to open spaces for a flourishing sympoietic Slow scholarship? These include asking the right questions, keeping the focus on the process of readingwritingbecoming, mindfulness and attentiveness to the personal and professional, actively practicing Slow scholarship, working in creative ways and through different spaces, standing in solidarity and working collectively, and finding joy and pleasure through scholarship
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