Connelly, Laura, Joseph-Salisbury, Remi, O’Neill, Siobhan, Pimlott, Kerry, Taylor, Harry (2024) The construction of “criminal outsiders”: security services and <i>whitening-securitization</i> in higher education. Ethnic and Racial Studies, . pp. 1-23. ISSN 0141-9870. (doi:10.1080/01419870.2024.2386343) (KAR id:106907)
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2024.2386343 |
Abstract
This article examines students’ experiences of security services on university campuses. Drawing on semi-structured interviews and a national survey of UK students, we demonstrate that students’ perceptions of safety often rely on excluding non-student “outsiders” and “criminals” from campus. We argue that neither the figure of “the outsider” nor “the criminal” is race-neutral. Thus, the exclusionary impulses held by students and institutions legitimize securitization practices that disproportionately impact racially minoritised students. On the one hand, these practices (re)produce the deep-rooted association between Blackness and criminality. On the other, they (re)produce the whiteness of the university. We conceptualise whitening-securitization to underscore the previously overlooked role of security services in maintaining whiteness and perpetuating institutional racism. In so doing, we argue for a more comprehensive conceptualization of institutional racism in higher education than that found in existing literature, one that considers the peripheral, more informal spaces where racism is sustained.
Item Type: | Article |
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DOI/Identification number: | 10.1080/01419870.2024.2386343 |
Additional information: | For the purpose of open access, the author has applied a CC BY public copyright licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission. |
Uncontrolled keywords: | Whitening-securitization; Criminal outsiders; Campus security; Institutional racism; Higher education; Racialized criminalization |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research |
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Economic and Social Research Council (https://ror.org/03n0ht308)
University of Manchester (https://ror.org/027m9bs27) |
SWORD Depositor: | JISC Publications Router |
Depositing User: | JISC Publications Router |
Date Deposited: | 16 Aug 2024 10:16 UTC |
Last Modified: | 17 Aug 2024 01:47 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/106907 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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