Connelly, L. orcid.org/0000-0002-9564-9106, Joseph-Salisbury, R., O'Neill, S. et al. (2 more authors) (2024) The construction of “criminal outsiders”: security services and whitening-securitization in higher education. Ethnic and Racial Studies. ISSN 0141-9870
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.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
Keywords: | Whitening-securitization; Criminal outsiders; Campus security; Institutional racism; Higher education; Racialized criminalization |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Sociological Studies (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 30 Jul 2024 13:06 |
Last Modified: | 15 Aug 2024 08:23 |
Status: | Published online |
Publisher: | Taylor and Francis Group |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/01419870.2024.2386343 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:215009 |