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This chapter shares autoethnographic accounts as three women academics describe how they are rewriting the rules of the finite career games that permeate the academy and reimagining academia through their mentoring relationships with one another. At different points in their academic careers, they are approaching ‘mentoring’ in ways that resist and speak back to the mentoring discourses and career games that objectify outputs and outcomes and magnify hierarchical power differences. Through the cultivation of their mentoring relationship as ‘a time of friendship’ (Nixon, Hannah Arendt and Karl Jaspers: The time of friendship. Journal of Educational Administration and History, 48(2), 160–170, 2016), they are disrupting the hierarchy of ‘mentor’ and ‘mentee’, their work together fuelled by trust and commitment to slow scholarship and the infinite game (Harre et al., The university as an infinite game: Revitalising activism in the academy. Australian Universities Review, 59(2), 5–13, 2017). |
