Gender encounters university-university encounters gender: affective archives Aarhus University, Denmark 1928-1953

This article deals with the encounters between female students and Aarhus University, Denmark during the first twenty-five years of its existence. My goal is to identify the affective processes of female student life as resulting from the intra-actions of immateriality and materiality. The paper off...

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Published in:Women's history review 2020-04, Vol.29 (3), p.413-428
Main Author: de Coninck-Smith, Ning
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
affective methodologies
archive
Archives & records
Bullying
College students
Colleges & universities
halls of residence
men
sexuality
university
Women
youth culture
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Summary:This article deals with the encounters between female students and Aarhus University, Denmark during the first twenty-five years of its existence. My goal is to identify the affective processes of female student life as resulting from the intra-actions of immateriality and materiality. The paper offers an invitation to join me on my research journey into the archives and history of the university. Maria Tamboukou's thinking about the archive as a fragmented, experimental space entangled with the life rhythms of the historian guides this journey. Logbooks from the kitchens in the student halls stand out as holy grails, where affective histories haunt the pages. Affective methodologies are my tools in unlocking a world of seriousness and senselessness, bullying and fun, hate and affection, camaraderie and humiliation.
ISSN:0961-2025
1747-583X
DOI:10.1080/09612025.2019.1611123