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Using arts-based and feminist methodologies to slow the wear and tear/s of academic work/life
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Using arts-based and feminist methodologies to slow the wear and tear/s of academic work/life

Alison L. Black
Creative Expression and Wellbeing in Higher Education: Making and Movement as Mindful Moments of Self-care, pp.121-136
Wellbeing and Self-care in Higher Education, Routledge
2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003207863-11
Appears in  UniSC Diversity and Inclusion Research Collection
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feminist methods writing lives neoliberalism arts-based methods breaking points snap UniSC Diversity Area - Gender Equity
This chapter is concerned with the impact of the neoliberal university on experiences of wellness in academic work/life. It highlights how arts-based and feminist methodologies can help explore the distress of toxic workplaces, the breaking points, and history of experience. It offers warnings, too, about turning structural/social/political issues into individualist frameworks of personal strategies or tools for managing the stress and pressure of academic work/life. Without structural interventions, our "making and movement as mindful moments" cannot save us. They can, however, create spaces and expressive channels for viewing the damage, slowing the wear and tear/s, and interrupting the never-ending production demanded by the academy. Illustratively, I use feminist methods and arts-based offerings to attend to slowing down, to making visible the "sap" of my academic experiences, "the hidden injuries" and the bodily impact academic culture has wrought, and to invite/incite a collective and "feminist snap" of revolt, resistance, and reimagining.

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