Student Protest in a British University: Some Comparisons with American Research

Blackstone, Tessa; Hadley, Roger

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“…Following the advent of neoliberalism, British universities have been transformed into hubs of consumption that have become driven by the logic of marketisation, consumer capitalism, competition, and profiteering (Carella and Ljungberg, 2017). Furthermore, universities such as BCU once stood as institutions that actively challenged the injustices and exploitations perpetrated under free-market capitalism (Blackstone and Hadley, 1971). Arguably, they now stand as conformers to the logic of consumer capitalism.…”

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Understanding violence on British university campuses through the lens of the deviant leisure perspective

Miles

2023

Journal of Consumer Culture

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This paper examines how the deviant leisure perspective plays a role in explaining encounters of violence across British University Campuses within which a university campus in the Midlands Region will be applied as case study. The deviant leisure framework will be broken down into its ultra-realist, cultural criminological, and zemiological underpinnings, through which violence will be contextualised under the backdrop of neoliberal capitalism. Through primary-based qualitative semi-structured interviews and surveys, two key arguments are made. Firstly, British university campuses are brand-driven spaces whereby under neoliberal capitalism, success is predicated upon excessive acts of consumption, that are capable of transcending into expressive and acquisitive modes of violence to achieve ‘success’. Secondly, consumer holidays are precipitators of violence rather than dark nights. It is argued that whilst dark nights serve as a catalyst for violence, it is instead the surge of consumer holidays including the Black Friday Sales and Christmas that drives violence. This research offers a fresh approach to understanding the correlation between violence and consumer culture. Forward-thinking, it is urged that the harmful subjectivities that are cultivated under liberal capitalism are considered when contesting violence within education settings for future practice.

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Understanding violence on British university campuses through the lens of the deviant leisure perspective

Miles

2023

Journal of Consumer Culture

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“…Some argue that Vietnam was the mobilising force behind student movements (Levitt 1984); it was the common ground on which students of differing views and values could converge and perhaps this external pull drew them together and from this a movement of other issues was born. The importance of Vietnam in relation to the student movements is widely shown in American research, but there exists no comparable research relating to English student protest (Blackstone and Hadley 1971), so once again perhaps, the under‐researched country (England) is being explained without substantiation on the premise that what ‘fits’ in terms of explanations in the USA will ultimately fit in England; thus, the notion of assumed similarity between all student movements is displayed once more. Some authors have argued against the notion that Vietnam can explain the European situation, suggesting that national issues affecting the student group of each country were actually more important within student movements (Anderson 1999–2000).…”

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The English Student Movement: An Evaluation of the Literature

Hanna

2008

Sociology Compass

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This article explores the state of the field of student movement research. I suggest there could be seen to be stagnation within the field of investigation, and resultant under-researching of some countries student movements, and I will make specific reference to the student movement of England in the late 1960s/early 1970s as a case in point of this. I argue that there has been unsatisfactory sole-causalities, such as issues of youth, issues seen as 'triggers', and political factors, attributed to the English student movement, and that this fails both to understand fully the significance and individuality of the English student movement, but also assumes a fit with New social movement (NSM) theory. I argue that we cannot automatically equate NSM's and student movements without thorough empirical research, and that we need to look to a synthesis of social movement theories in order to understand fully student movements. The English Student Movement

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Securitizing the Educated Muslim: Islamophobia, Radicalization and the Muslim Female Student

Saeed

2016

Islamophobia and Securitization

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Student Protest in a British University: Some Comparisons with American Research

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Understanding violence on British university campuses through the lens of the deviant leisure perspective

Understanding violence on British university campuses through the lens of the deviant leisure perspective

The English Student Movement: An Evaluation of the Literature

Securitizing the Educated Muslim: Islamophobia, Radicalization and the Muslim Female Student

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