Mak, Bonnie, and Stevens, Hallam (2021) The campus after COVID-19: infrastructures of “innovation” have produced new forms of surveillance and compliance that will refigure the post-pandemic campus. Public Seminar, 4 March 2021.

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Abstract

[Extract] Campuses around the world continue to engage in a dangerous experiment: welcoming students back to class even as Covid-19 and its more infectious variants spread. On campus, just as elsewhere, a successful and sustained reopening relies on those who are among the most vulnerable: custodial and maintenance staff and essential workers. Many of these employees were already experiencing different forms of precarity before the pandemic—including disparities related to race and ethnicity, chronic underemployment, housing and food insecurity, and a lack of adequate medical insurance. But to remain closed entails an untenable long-term economic risk for universities, many having been already destabilized by decades of financial rescissions.

Item ID:	75544
Item Type:	Article (Commentary)
Keywords:	community spirit, Global Economy, Reconfiguration, social engineering
Copyright Information:	Copyright © 2014–2022 The Editorial Board of Public Seminar, All Rights Reserved.
Date Deposited:	09 Nov 2022 01:13
FoR Codes:	46 INFORMATION AND COMPUTING SCIENCES > 4610 Library and information studies > 461004 Information governance, policy and ethics @ 50% 44 HUMAN SOCIETY > 4410 Sociology > 441007 Sociology and social studies of science and technology @ 50%
SEO Codes:	20 HEALTH > 2004 Public health (excl. specific population health) > 200499 Public health (excl. specific population health) not elsewhere classified @ 50% 13 CULTURE AND SOCIETY > 1399 Other culture and society > 139999 Other culture and society not elsewhere classified @ 50%
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