Could Slow Be Beautiful? Academic Counter-Spacing Within and Beyond “The Slow Swimming Club”
基于对“慢游泳俱乐部”的自我民族志研究，提出一种学术反空间形式，以对抗大学中由市场化、新公共管理和新自由主义驱动的快节奏，并借助注意力恢复理论分析其个人恢复与集体抵抗的双重作用。
This article proposes a specific form of academic counter-spacing, based on an autoethnographic account of an initiative called the “Slow Swimming Club.” The justification for this initiative is to contest what is contextualized as the pervasive fast pace of universities, driven by contemporary marketization, new public management, and neoliberalism. The proposed counter-spacing is analyzed here through a conceptual lens, inspired by recent research from the environmental psychology discipline around Attention Restorative Theory (ART), along with its central four principles. By using such a conceptual frame, it allows a way of exploring the impact beyond the personal day-to-day micro-restorative counter-spacing opportunities, such as the Slow Swimming Club (which take place outside the university space), toward counter-spacing back on campus. It thereby endeavors to explore how such counter-spacing not only reflects and disconnects through a restorative coping mechanism, but also collectively resists and challenges the fast agendas on campus.