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Slow Science Utopia: Privatised Anxieties, Gender and Academic Labour in Contemporary Croatian (Ethno)Musicology

"Science needs time. Bear with us, while we think". The two closing, concise and direct, sentences of The Slow Science Manifesto (2010) seem to resonate with pages upon pages of critical academic publications written in the last decade, reflecting on the crisis of academic labour within the increasingly faster contemporary academia. This vast literature is pregnant with references to ever-increasing institutional demands, precarious conditions of labour, intensification and extensification of work, endangered academic solidarity, increasingly competitive environments, as well as to the hidden and rarely discussed "injuries" that the new neoliberal academia inflicts upon the bodies and minds of those working in it (Gill 2010). Critical reflections on the changing conditions of academic labour in (ethno)musicology are, however, still relatively scarce (cf. Vágnerová & García Molina 2018). In this presentation – based on autoethnography and ethnographic research carried out through interviews, group discussions and solicited personal diaries – the author will try to provide insight into the intricacies of professional lives and challenges of academic labour of early- and mid-career women academics working in the field of (ethno)musicology in Croatia today. Although based on relatively small number of participants, this initial research hopes to offer the starting point for reflection on hitherto unexamined, invisible and underrepresented gendered experiences of "doing (ethno)musicology" in the context of contemporary university/academia.

ethnomusicology ; academic labour ; slow science

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