TY - JOUR
T1 - Transgender negotiations of precarity
T2 - contested spaces of higher education
AU - Bonner-Thompson, Carl
AU - Mearns, Graeme
AU - Hopkins, Peter
N1 - This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article: Bonner‐Thompson, C., Mearns, G.W. and Hopkins, P. (2021), Transgender negotiations of precarity: contested spaces of higher education. The Geographical Journal, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12384. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.
PY - 2021/3/8
Y1 - 2021/3/8
N2 - We use feminist and queer theorisations of precarity as emotional and embodied to explore how trans people experience and negotiate university campus spaces in North East England. Through analysis of 15 interviews conducted with university students and staff, we highlight how precarity is lived and felt through an exploration of the ways in which different spaces of the campus become contexts of hope, comfort, and belonging, as well as anxiety, fear, and violence. We detail the specific ways in which university spaces can come to shape feelings of precariousness and how these are relational to experiences of being trans in the wider city. We conclude by highlighting what an emotional and felt approach to precarity can offer geographers interested in power, marginalisation, and place.
AB - We use feminist and queer theorisations of precarity as emotional and embodied to explore how trans people experience and negotiate university campus spaces in North East England. Through analysis of 15 interviews conducted with university students and staff, we highlight how precarity is lived and felt through an exploration of the ways in which different spaces of the campus become contexts of hope, comfort, and belonging, as well as anxiety, fear, and violence. We detail the specific ways in which university spaces can come to shape feelings of precariousness and how these are relational to experiences of being trans in the wider city. We conclude by highlighting what an emotional and felt approach to precarity can offer geographers interested in power, marginalisation, and place.
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U2 - 10.1111/geoj.12384
DO - 10.1111/geoj.12384
M3 - Article
SN - 0016-7398
VL - 187
SP - 227
EP - 239
JO - The Geographical Journal
JF - The Geographical Journal
IS - 3
ER -