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    For the likes of us? Retelling the classed production of a British university campus

    Rogaly, B. and Taylor, Becky (2015) For the likes of us? Retelling the classed production of a British university campus. ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies 14 (1), ISSN 1492-9732.

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    Abstract

    This paper contributes to recent critical geographical writing on university campuses by setting their physical production and reproduction centre stage and taking an historical perspective. Focusing on a single case study campus in the UK we revisit the archival record on its planning and early years, revealing gaps between stated intentions of increasing equality between social classes and discourses and practices which reinforced middle and upper class cultural hegemony. We then draw on oral history interviews with residents of the social housing estates immediately adjacent to the campus, including its former builders and cleaners, to explore the spatialized subjectivities of people who were generally absent from the consultations conducted by the university’s planners, and whose perspectives are not found in its official history. The findings confirm the idea of university campuses as paradoxical spaces for their working-class neighbours, at once excluding and, in unexpected ways, potentially transformational.

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    Item Type: Article
    Keyword(s) / Subject(s): Class, higher education, community, place, exclusion
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Historical Studies
    Research Centres and Institutes: Contemporary Literature, Centre for
    Depositing User: Rebecca Taylor
    Date Deposited: 28 Jul 2015 10:02
    Last Modified: 02 Aug 2023 17:11
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/9986

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