Walking: Towards a valuable academic life

Catherine Manathunga; Ali Black; Shelley Davidow

doi:10.1080/01596306.2020.1827222

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Walking: Towards a valuable academic life

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Walking: Towards a valuable academic life

Catherine Manathunga, Ali Black and Shelley Davidow

Discourse: Studies in the cultural politics of education, Vol.43(2), pp.231-250

2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2020.1827222

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academic work

academic identities

walking as research

arts-based inquiry

slow writing

post-feminist c/a/r/tographies

UniSC Diversity Area - Gender Equity

Frenetic digital timescapes reduce academic life to the endless achievement of metrics. These forces produce unsustainable work practices that disconnect us from ourselves, from ideas, from the natural world and from each other. While there is a substantial body of literature critiquing this, the use of arts-based inquiry into academic work is less common. In this article, we use slow ‘thinking-in-movement’ practices and arts-based methodologies to argue that beach walking enables us to resist the academic machine. We suggest that beaches act as liminal spaces where we may engage in post-feminist, new materialist c/a/r/tographies. Beach walking enables us to defamiliarize our bodies and interrupt the academic machine so that we might enact more embodied, contemplative ways of working. Written as a performative piece, this article intersperses citations of towards a valuable academic life. Come, join us as we walk …

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Title: Walking: Towards a valuable academic life
Authors: Catherine Manathunga (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Education - Legacy
Ali Black (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast
Shelley Davidow (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Education - Legacy
Publication details: Discourse: Studies in the cultural politics of education, Vol.43(2), pp.231-250
Publisher: Routledge
Date published: 2022
DOI: 10.1080/01596306.2020.1827222
ISSN: 0159-6306
Organisation Unit: School of Education - Legacy; Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; School of Education and Tertiary Access; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99478708502621
Output Type: Journal article

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