ABSTRACT
Imbricated in the cultural politics of universities, academics shape and are shaped by the institutions to which they belong. Embracing Barnett’s (2011) conception of feasible utopias, we three women academics use poetic collective biography to frame the university as the best of all possible worlds. A celebration of slow scholarship, the chapter provides a poetic account of our work as feminist scholars in the academy, where we excavate and analyse memories to challenge the notion of competitive individualism. We argue that it is possible to immerse ourselves in research acts that address a range of interrelated ecosystems and also transcend the interests of the entrepreneurial university. Feasible utopias, while seemingly enigmatic in their evasiveness can mobilise courage and optimism.
