Student geographies and homemaking

Personal Belonging(s) and Identities

Bibliographic Data

ID3978229
AuthorsMilne Holton (0000-0003-0267-3164, University of Plymouth), Mark Holton, Mark Riley (0000-0002-3259-323X, University of Liverpool, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume17
Issue5
Pages623-645
Publication date2016-07-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial & Cultural Geography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1464-9365 • E-ISSN: 1470-1197
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14649365.2015.1126626
OpenAlexW2229444912
LanguageEN
Citations received41
References cited69

Studies of the ‘geographies of students’ have become increasingly prevalent across the social sciences and are particularly concerned with the predilection for young UK University undergraduates to be mobile in their institutional choice. A more recent focus within this work has been upon student identities, with attention given to how the spaces to which students move and in which they settle can have both positive and negative consequences for the evolution of the student identity, and how such identities are often framed within the context of social activities; learning environments; friendship networks; or other sociocultural factors. This paper contributes to these discussions by considering the role of student accommodation – a site which often remains on the periphery of discussions of student identities – in offering students opportunities to construct, adapt and manage their student identities. This adds to the important contemporary geographies of student accommodation, which are currently debating, among others, purpose-built student accommodation and the broad housing ‘careers’ and strategies of students. In contrast, this paper explores the micro-geographies of student accommodation (and more specifically, the bedroom) to highlight its value in providing young, mobile students with an anchor within which they can draw together their learner, social and domestic dispositions into one geographical location

Accommodation · Aesthetics · Context (archaeology · Friendship · Geography · Identity (music · Pedagogy · Social science · Sociocultural evolution · Sociology · Gender Studies · Higher Education Governance and Development · Higher Education Practises and Engagement · Higher Education Research Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology

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