Resources

Academic articles that influenced Being Lazy and Slowing Down

Shahjahan, R. (2015). Being lazy and slowing down: Toward decolonizing time, our body, and pedagogyEducational Philosophy and Theory. 47 (5) 488-501.

Mayuzumi, K. (2006). The tea ceremony as a decolonizing epistemology: Healing and Japanese womenJournal of Transformative Education (4)1, 8-26.

Books relevant to Being Lazy and Slowing Down

Berg, M. & Seeber, B. (2013). The slow professor: Challenging the culture of speed in the academy. Transformative Dialogues: Teaching & Learning Journal (6)3.

Hanh, T.N. (1992). Peace is every step: The path of mindfulness in everyday life.

Kabat-Zinn, J. (2013). Full catastrophe living: Using the wisdom of your body and mind to face stress, pain, and illness. New York City, NY: Bantam

Kabat-Zinn, J. (1994). Wherever you go there you are: Mindfulness meditation in everyday life. New York City, NY: Hyperion

Levy, D. M. (2016). Mindful tech: How to bring balance to our digital lives. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press

Somé, M. P. (1993). Ritual: Power, healing, and community. New York: Penguin Compass.

Other Resources

Shame/ Scarcity Thinking/ Self-Compassion

Shahjahan, R. A. (2019) On ‘being for others’: time and shame in the neoliberal academy

Brown, B. (2012): Daring greatly: How the courage to be vulnerable transforms the way we live, love, parent, and lead. New York City, NY: Gotham

Brown, B. (2010): The gifts of imperfection: Let go of who you think you’re supposed to be and embrace who you are. Center City, MN: Hazelden.

Brown, B. (2007): I thought it was just me (but it isn’t): Telling the truth about perfectionism, inadequacy, and power. New York: Penguin/Gotham.

Castle, V. (2006). The trance of scarcity: Hey! Stop holding your breath and start living your life. Clinton, WA: Sagacious Press.

Self-Compassion website by Kristin Neff

The Rain of Self-Compassion by Tara Brach

Time/Temporality

Alhadeff-Jones, M. (2017). Time and the rhythms of emancipatory education: Rethinking the temporal complexity of self and society. New York, NY: Routledge.

Rappleye, J. and H. Komatsu (2016). Living on borrowed time: Rethinking temporality, self, nihilism, and schooling. Comparative Education. 1-25.

Shahjahan, R. A. (2019) On ‘being for others’: time and shame in the neoliberal academy

Shahjahan, R. A. (2015). Being lazy and slowing down: Toward decolonizing time, our body, and pedagogy. Educational Philosophy and Theory. 47 (5) 488-501.

Vostal, F. (2015). Academic life in the fast lane: The experience of time and speed in British academia. Time and Society. 24 (1) 71-95.

Ylijoki, O-H. (2014). A temporal approach to higher education research. In Theory and Method in Higher Education Research II. Published online: 22Dec 2014; 141-160.

Imposter Syndrome

Mayuzumi, K & Shahjahan, R (2017). How to navigate shame and imposter syndrome in the academy – Part IBeing Lazy and Slowing Down

Mayuzumi, K & Shahjahan, R (2017). How to navigate shame and imposter syndrome in the academy – Part II: 4 strategies. Being Lazy and Slowing Down

Sin, R (2017). What imposter feelings taught me about my strength: a graduate student’s story on slowing downBeing Lazy and Slowing Down

Revuluri, S (2018). How to overcome imposter syndrome. The Chronicle of Higher Education

Aguilar, S (2015). We are not impostors. Inside Higher Education.

Chris (2015). Imposter syndrome made me want to quit grad school.

Clance, P. R., & Imes, S. A. (1978). The imposter phenomenon in high achieving women: Dynamics and therapeutic intervention. Psychotherapy. Theory, Research & Practice, 15(3), 241.

Kuther, T. (n.d.) The Impostor Syndrome: Are You Fooling Everyone?

Slowing Down/ Self-care /Lifestyles 

King, D. (2012). Toward a feminist theory of letting go. Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, 33(3), 53-70.

Want a Better Night’s Sleep?: Follow these 5 simple rules to sleep better every night. By Michael Breus

Relax! You’ll Be More Productive By Tony Schwartz in the New York Times

The Argentinian Workplace Trend We Should All Try: Fight the post-lunch slump By Shelby Lorman

I Trained Myself to Be Less Busy – And It Dramatically Improved My Life By David Sbarra 

Healers of Color on Why Self-Care is Not Self-Indulgence By Miriam Zoila Pérez

The Abundance of Slowness: Learning to value smart work over hard work requires a paradigm shift, but pays dividends. By Matt Steel

Want To Practice Mindfulness? Start At Work: No particular location required. By HuffPost Partner Studio

The 40-Year-Old Burnout: Why I gave up tenure for a yet-to-be-determined career By Jonathan Malesic 

“You do not exist to be used”: Dismantling the idea of productivity in life purpose. by Gillian Giles

Academic Parents

An academic working dad in The Chronicle of Higher Education

Academic fathers pursuing tenure: A qualitative study of work-family conflict, coping strategies, and departmental culture

Faculty fathers’ in Inside Higher Ed

Papa, PhD: Essays on fatherhood by men in the academy

For Early-Career Academics

ECHER Blog: The Voice of Early-Career Higher Education Researchers

 

 

Modified on April 30, 2020