So in the midst of the hurly burly, pain, and pressure, we took a bit of time out yesterday @QMSchoolofLaw for a SLOW research chat. As Mountz et al say in For Slow Scholarship https://acme-journal.org/index.php/acme/article/view/1058 talking about being slow is a first step in claiming back space & decelerating

We talked about what Isobel Roele calls Silly Things and how we might take ourselves and our students for walks when the day comes that it is safe to return to campus. We wondered about Wench Tactics https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10691-017-9355-y & collective occupying of the rhythms of uni governance

And we thought out loud about how slow aesthetics could make space for delay, and taking back capitalist time as @tchowdhury88 said. How might slowness reach out to the mutual aid and decolonising practices of our students as part of anti-racist struggle https://www.readcube.com/articles/10.1007/s10978-018-9232-0

With @BarmesLizzie we reflected on all the ways we as individuals enact, negotiate, and resist the senses of urgency and feelings of never being done. And we wondered if more space for play at work might help remake our institutions-in-crisis https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2826698

Whatever direction our conversation takes, even if it comes to a stop, spending a little time thinking, laughing, and mourning with colleagues in our research spaces was a precious thing.