Territory and temporality on the university campus

Quinn, Katherine 2026. Territory and temporality on the university campus. Bates, Charlotte and Jackson, Emma, eds. Walking: A sociological field guide, Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, pp. 199-212. (10.7765/9781526184924.00028)

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Abstract

This essay follows a walk between the author’s desk and a research fieldwork site on the ‘other side’ of the university campus, which takes about fifteen minutes. Moving among the rhythms of city and campus, the walk navigates various circulations of (im)permanency through writing –with a constrained creative-academic practice called ‘100s’ – brief moments described in 100-word multiples. The essay describes how the dynamics of academia that it sought to examine at the walk’s destination site were internalized – how the author’s subjectivity shaped the situation of the study. Tensions between ephemerality and permanency, rapidity and stasis, territory and transience played out not only within the physical and political evolution of higher education, but were also refracted through the author’s fledgling steps within it. The essay highlights that both writing and walking have a doubled function – both make thoughts move.

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
Publisher:	Manchester University Press
ISBN:	9781526184917
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	17 February 2026
Last Modified:	17 Aug 2026 14:45
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/184104

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