DEAR FEMINIST COLLECTIVE: How Does One Take Up Slow Scholarship (in the Midst of Crises)?

Abstract

This chapter explores the relationship between feminist slow scholarship and geographical research methodologies. A group of feminist geographers comprising five graduate students and four tenured faculty across five universities in Canada and the United States came together (virtually) in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and uprisings against racism to reflect on how principles of feminist slow scholarship can inform geographical research methodologies. In the process of our collective writing and reflection, we identified feminist care ethics, attention to temporality, and embodied emotional labour as interconnected elements from feminist slow scholarship that are also fundamental to research. We explore these elements through examples drawn from our own experiences. We conclude that feminist slow scholarship offers a way of doing care-full research as part of collective endeavours to change the university and world around us.