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Articles | Volume 80, issue 2
Articles | Volume 80, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-80-163-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-80-163-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 80, issue 2
Intervention
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25 Jun 2025
Intervention |  | 25 Jun 2025

Who can “slow down” in the neoliberal academy? Reflections on the politics of time as an early-career feminist geographer in Switzerland

Zali Fung

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This intervention examines the fraught relationship between precarious early-career researchers (ECRs) and "slow scholarship" in the neoliberal academy, based on my reflections as a Swiss-based ECR. While ERCs aspire to "slow down" and conduct more caring research, we face pressures to "speed up" outputs in a competitive job market. Precarity unevenly impacts women and shapes personal decisions about the future. Navigating this requires collective efforts that are attuned to social difference.
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