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\nDuring my PhD at Cambridge, I developed the nervous habit of tying knots in my hair. Sitting in the library, I\u2019d twist clumps of it around and around my fingers into a tight, fist-sized tangle. The procedure was very satisfying \u2013 until the knot wouldn\u2019t undo and I\u2019d have to cut it out. At the hairdresser\u2019s, I\u2019d say I\u2019d gone to a fancy-dress party with a beehive up-do and couldn\u2019t brush it out; that felt less freakish than admitting to wilful self-mutilation.<\/p>\n

I wasn\u2019t worried, though, as all my friends had their thing. One developed such a violent eye twitch she was sent for brain scans in case it was a tumour. The real problem was stress. Day in, day out, you had to excel. Write another paper, go to yet another conference, run this workshop, follow that training, say yes to every opportunity that comes your way. You were constantly asking yourself: am I good enough? Am I doing enough?<\/p>\n

Worse, you were (or felt as though you were) surrounded by people whose first-year thesis work led to meetings with Bill Gates and Barack Obama. And these were the people you\u2019d be competing with for academic jobs \u2013 mere mortals were never going to get a look in.<\/p>\n

One of the perks of Cambridge life is that \u2018bedders\u2019 came into your room every day to empty your bin, but rumour had it the real aim was to check you hadn\u2019t killed yourself.<\/p>\n

Slow Academia<\/strong><\/p>\n

The pressures of academic life are by no means exclusive to top-notch institutions, nor to the PhD experience. Far from it. And so, almost inevitably, people have begun calling for a \u201cSlow Academia\u201d. Something akin to its cousins in the\u00a0Slow Movement<\/a>, like Slow Food or Slow Travel or Slow Parenting.<\/p>\n

But recently, critics have come out of the woodwork. Slow academia represents privilege, they say:\u00a0 it\u2019s for those who can afford it, who have already reached the scholarly summit, and it comes at a cost to those below them on the academic food chain.<\/p>\n

The ethics of slow<\/strong><\/p>\n

Slow Academia is a response to the\u00a0university as anxiety machine<\/a>. To a creeping, aggressive brand of academic capitalism, characterised by rampant managerialism and an insidious audit culture.<\/p>\n

Proponents of\u00a0Slow Scholarship<\/a>,\u00a0Slow Science<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0Slow Universityb<\/a>\u00a0believe resisting\u00a0Neoliberal U<\/a>\u00a0means embracing the ethics of slow.<\/p>\n

Letting ideas ripen and brewing papers gradually, rather than submitting them half-baked. Striving for quality, not quantity. Connecting with students and spending time on well-crafted, inspiring lectures.\u00a0Taking care of ourselves and others<\/a>. Making time to think, digest, reflect (\u201cBear with us, while we think\u201d, write the authors of the\u00a0Slow Science Manifesto<\/a>).<\/p>\n

The key is, according to the\u00a0authors of The Slow Professor<\/a>, to \u201cremind ourselves of why we went into teaching, and what it is we love about scholarship\u201d.<\/p>\n

Slow Academia as privilege<\/strong><\/p>\n

It all sounds lovely, but not everyone is impressed. As one\u00a0critic<\/a>\u00a0of The Slow Professor writes,<\/p>\n

I have never seen such a grotesque example of tenured faculty privilege [\u2026] Poor darlings [\u2026] Let\u2019s hope we don\u2019t see the \u201cSlow Nurse\u201d, or \u201cSlow Doctor\u201d movements picking up amongst the professions. Why should academia bathe in this self-indulgence?<\/em><\/p>\n

At issue is that not everyone has the luxury of\u00a0taking 17 years to write a book<\/a>. Not everyone can labour over the composition of\u00a0\u201cslogs\u201d (slow blogs) and \u201csleets\u201d (slow tweets)<\/a>. Moreover, some see avoiding social media (\u201cWe are scientists. We don\u2019t blog. We don\u2019t twitter. We take our time<\/a>\u201d) as an\u00a0abdication of role of public intellectual<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Not everyone can afford to resist by publishing in places that don\u2019t count when it comes to metrics. Not everyone feels they can risk treating research targets as a\u00a0pirate code<\/a>\u00a0(\u201cmore what you\u2019d call guidelines than actual rules\u201d). As\u00a0Liz Morrish<\/a>\u00a0points out, \u201cthe slow, careful writer who wishes to do scrupulous and yes, pleasurable work\u201d faces being subjected to \u201ccapability procedures\u201d. And of course, not everyone can afford to work as a part time or self-funded academic (as \u2013 full disclosure \u2013\u00a0I do<\/a>).<\/p>\n

On the backs of others<\/strong><\/p>\n

One important argument runs that those who embrace slow do so\u00a0on the backs of others<\/a>. Mark Carrigan and Filip Vostal\u00a0write<\/a><\/p>\n

those already at the summit of the academic career structure [\u2026 ] enjoy a security being systematically denied to ever greater swathes of their younger colleagues. [\u2026] \u201cslow professorship\u201d only makes sense when such decelerating professors can take it for granted that junior associates will accelerate to pick up the slack.<\/em><\/p>\n

In this sense, Slow Academia can be seen as conservative and exclusionary; see for example this thoughtful\u00a0piece<\/a>\u00a0by Heather Mendick:<\/p>\n

Slow academia is becoming a conservative movement \u2013 harking back to a \u2018golden age\u2019 of higher education that never was.<\/p>\n

The past privileged space of academia was premised on the exclusion of others [\u2026] Spending time in the ethereal domains of the Slow university, requires the unpaid and unacknowledged material labour of others, be they cooking and cleaning for us, caring for our children, or otherwise servicing our needs.\u00a0We need to interrogate slow, by asking:\u00a0<\/em>Who<\/em>\u00a0can go slow? \u00a0And, what difference does it make which university you\u2019re at, which contract you\u2019re on and what other responsibilities you have?<\/p>\n

We could go further still and say that slow risks acquiring the stink of self-righteousness. Not everyone is equally well equipped to fight the culture of fear. Not everyone has the wherewithal to stand up to managerial bullying. Simply surviving rather than politicking shouldn\u2019t become a badge of shame.<\/p>\n

All academia is privilege<\/strong><\/p>\n

Slow Academia is privilege, but then no one is denying that. As Agnes Bosanquet at\u00a0The Slow Academic<\/a>\u00a0points out, \u201cMany tenured and tenure-track academics have been casuals themselves, and I think they are keenly aware of their privilege.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is privilege in the manner of all slow movements. Take\u00a0Slow Food<\/a>: \u201csomething to be carefully prepared, with fresh ingredients, local when possible, and enjoyed leisurely over conversation around a table with friends and family.\u201d This is privilege itself, but that doesn\u2019t make it any less desirable for many of us.<\/p>\n

And at the end of the day, isn\u2019t academia already privilege, even for those at the bottom of the university food chain? For starters, the luxury of being a knowledge worker at all means you were born in a time and place where you could get an education. Nobody becomes even an adjunct without the right degree, probably several of them.<\/p>\n

I grew up not certain university was on the cards, however desperately I wanted it. To this day I thank my lucky stars I was born in a country (Australia) that made it possible through student loans. After undergrad I worked for several years before I could pay for a master (part time, alongside work).<\/p>\n

Then it took a few more years of working two jobs and saving, working and saving, to afford the PhD. I was lucky to get a scholarship that covered my fees, and continued working throughout; always on the sly because Cambridge doesn\u2019t condone dividing one\u2019s precious attention (unless of course it\u2019s by teaching for them).<\/p>\n

But however hard the slog, however many sleepless nights and anxious days, however many nervous knots I managed to tie my hair, I\u2019m aware that even the chance to pursue that path was a privilege. The coal mine was my grandfather\u2019s only option. I get to read and think and discuss and write, however hurriedly at times. Yes, Slow Academia is a privilege. But so is all academia.<\/p>\n

Author Bio:<\/strong> Alison Edwards (PhD Cantab) is based in Amsterdam, where she works as a writer, translator, editor and independent scholar. Her latest research focuses on English in continental Europe and its role in local identity construction. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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