Slow Scholarship - Medieval Research and the Neoliberal University (Hardcover)

A powerful claim for the virtues of a more thoughtful and collegiate approach to the academy today. This book offers a response to the culture of metrics, mass digitisation, and accountability (as opposed to responsibility, or citizenship) that has developed in higher education world wide, as exemplified by the UK's Research Excellence Framework exercise (REF), and the increasing bureaucracy that limits the time available for teaching, research, and even conversation and collaboration. Ironically, these are problems that will be solved only by academicsfinding the time to talk and to work together. The essays collected here both critique the culture of speed in the neoliberal university and provide examples of what can be achieved by slowing down, by reclaiming research and research priorities, and by working collaboratively across the disciplines to improve conditions. They are informed both by recent research in medieval studies and by the problematic culture of twenty-first century higher education. The contributions offer very personal approaches to the academic culture of the present moment. Some tackle issues of academic freedom head-on; others more obliquely; but they all have been written as declarations of theacademic freedom that comes with slow thinking, slow reading, slow writing and slow looking and the demonstrations of its benefits. CATHERINE E. KARKOV is Professor and Chair of Art History at the University of Leeds. Contributors: Lara Eggleton, Karen Jolly, Chris Jones, James Paz, Andrew Prescott, Heather Pulliam

General

Imprint:	D.S. Brewer
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Essays and Studies
Release date:	September 2019
First published:	2019
Editors:	Catherine E. Karkov
Contributors:	Andrew Prescott • Catherine E. Karkov • Chris Jones (ESRR Professor of English) • Heather Pulliam • James Paz • Karen Louise Jolly (Person) • Lara Eggleton
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	182
ISBN-13:	978-1-84384-538-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Ethical issues & debates > General
LSN:	1-84384-538-5
Barcode:	9781843845386

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