The campus after COVID-19: infrastructures of “innovation” have produced new forms of surveillance and compliance that will refigure the post-pandemic campus

Mak, Bonnie;Stevens, Hallam

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[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.

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4 March 2021

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