These are challenging times - times for courage and care. Whilst it's not business as usual (and I'm not convinced we're a business anyway) I did want to give a shout out to some papers that came online during the #ucustrikebacks and so weren't shared earlier.
They are from an upcoming special issue on #gentlegeographies with @J_Sellick that's been in the works now for at least five years. This really is #slowacademia(!) and we've been trying to acknowledge that productive contributions come at different paces and in different forms.
This is now even more readily apparent in our current times - whatever our household, family and friends formulation, employment type, dis/abilities and more.
I'd like to mention Laura Smith's @hayduke75 piece on 'The quiet politics and gentle literary activism behind the battle for Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument' rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…
And Jon Cinnamon's @joncinnamon piece on 'Power in numbers/Power and numbers: Gentle data activism as strategic collaboration' rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…
This is in additon to John Horton's @CCYNorthampton piece 'For diffident geographies and modest activisms: Questioning the ANYTHING‐BUT‐GENTLE academy
John Horton' rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ar…
And Suzanne Hocknell's @SuzeHocknell piece 'CoPSE: A methodological intervention towards gentle more‐than‐human relations' rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ar…
Many of us are feeling time differently and it may not be possible to read these. If you find you are, I hope you discover in them something of humanity and solace, and things which embolden you for today and tomorrow - quiet and modest as our actions/activisms may be.
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