From space invaders to space interpreters: On spatial tactics as boundary work of women academics in the university
基于对比利时五所荷兰语大学50名早期职业女性的深度访谈，研究她们在日常工作中抵抗种族主义和性别主义的三种空间策略，揭示其如何通过边界工作重塑学术空间。
This paper examines the spatial resistance tactics of early career academics (ECAs) against racism and sexism in academia. Drawing on 50 in-depth interviews with ECAs from five Belgian Dutch-speaking universities, I investigate how women ECAs’ everyday enactments of resistance are a way to navigate the exclusionary boundaries of academia. I identify three manifestations of everyday resistance in which women ECAs transgress and reconstitute symbolic and material boundaries: (1) innerspace-tactics occur “inside” the work-space breaking and blurring the symbolic boundaries of who the legitimate occupant can be, (2) outerspace-tactics are tactics to develop Other spaces “outside” the workspace aiming to become the “unencumbered” academic subtly touching the exclusionary boundaries while avoiding the label of a troublemaker, and (3) inner-outerspace blend tactics are tactics to establish counter-spaces developing new exclusionary boundaries on their own terms simulating a space of personal and academic support. I conclude by extending Puwar’s “space invader” concept to “space interpreter,” highlighting women ECAs’ active boundary work in developing an anti-racist-sexist academia.