Being Lazy and Slowing Down

Being Lazy and Slowing Down

Be Mindful, Trust the Process, Let Go of Outcomes

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About Yuki Imoto & Tomoko Tokunaga

Yuki Imoto is Assistant Professor at Keio University and Tomoko Tokunaga is Assistant Professor at the University of Tsukuba in Japan. They are anthropologists of education who have lived, studied and worked in the U.S., Europe and Japan. They are searching for alternative pathways that weave together their teaching, research, and socially and spiritually engaged practices.

How Our Collaborative Writing Became a Healing Process: Reflections by Two Transnational Female Academics in Japan

Posted on Author Yuki Imoto & Tomoko TokunagaPosted in academic life & challenges, slow down & healing, writing & planning

By Yuki Imoto and Tomoko Tokunaga  When we met in Tokyo in 2013, I (Tomoko) had just returned from the US as a postdoc, and I (Yuki) had started a faculty post in Japan. We connected through our common interests and shared backgrounds. We have been writing collaboratively since then. It was rare to find a friend who shared similar experiences of crisscrossing linguistic, cultural, and geographic borders. Our disciplinary backgrounds included anthropology, sociology, and…

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