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Accepted Paper:
"Anything can happen": How female students experience safety concerns and realities during habitual walking at a South African university
Siyathokoza Mtolo
(University of the Witwatersrand)
Paper short abstract:
In this paper I will be looking at the female experience of safety in a university campus. The paper focuses on a South African university with its context being the greater environment's much discussed gender-based violence.
Paper long abstract:
Habitual walking to experience places is an understudied area of phenomenological experience. Furthermore, habitual walking as one of the ways to experience the tertiary education landscape's numerous built up and decorated environments is close to non-existent. However, events such as the 2015 #MustFall moment in South Africa have highlighted the need to study the experience of places through habitual walking as such moments bring forth what may be thought of as the phenomenological experience of walking the university as a place. This is a study of how female students at a South African university phenomenologically experience safety realities and concerns as part of their experience of the university campus.
This study draws from the in-depth mobile interviewing of 10 female students from Rhodes University. The study finds that females at the university experience safety in a highly targeted manner that brings to the fore the subjective realities of the area of emplacement in a manner that is both present and reflexive as individuals are also always present, engaging and engaged by the environment within which they are habitually walking. Safety concerns and realities are catered to each individual and the individual must use resources (physical and psychological) in their negotiation of
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Accepted Paper:
Paper short abstract:
Paper long abstract:
Habitual walking to experience places is an understudied area of phenomenological experience. Furthermore, habitual walking as one of the ways to experience the tertiary education landscape's numerous built up and decorated environments is close to non-existent. However, events such as the 2015 #MustFall moment in South Africa have highlighted the need to study the experience of places through habitual walking as such moments bring forth what may be thought of as the phenomenological experience of walking the university as a place. This is a study of how female students at a South African university phenomenologically experience safety realities and concerns as part of their experience of the university campus.
This study draws from the in-depth mobile interviewing of 10 female students from Rhodes University. The study finds that females at the university experience safety in a highly targeted manner that brings to the fore the subjective realities of the area of emplacement in a manner that is both present and reflexive as individuals are also always present, engaging and engaged by the environment within which they are habitually walking. Safety concerns and realities are catered to each individual and the individual must use resources (physical and psychological) in their negotiation of
safety concern and reality.
Gendered Violence and Urban Transformations in the Global South II
Session 1 Thursday 7 July, 2022, -