Mapping Students’ Everyday Life at Makerere University, Kampala
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Space Ontology, Campushood, Dispositionality, Makerere University, Spatial Capital, Student DwellingAbstract
This research examines how places are produced through students' everyday spatial practices at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda—a rapidly urbanizing city with a booming youth population. Situated at the intersection of colonial-postcolonial history and coexisting formal and informal urban development, Makerere University presents a context that demands approaches beyond Western-centric or structuralist frameworks. Adopting a theoretically driven case study approach, this study employs "campushood" as its primary analytical lens, encompassing both students and the campus environment to enable a holistic, thick description of students' lifeworlds. Through mixed methods, including multi-vocal archival research, place-based interviews, mental mapping, time-budget surveys, and ethnography, this study conducts a multi-layered analysis of spatial practices.
Theoretically, this study proposes a space ontology that understands place as a network of spatial practices, drawing on Theodore Schatzki’s flat ontology and Michel de Certeau’s theory of spatial practices. The proposed urban (ab)normalist framework further supports a contextual and practice-oriented research methodology. Methodologically, the study combines interdisciplinary research methods with ethnomethodology to examine how students navigate and make sense of everyday environments.
The empirical findings reveal three key dimensions: students are active place-producing agents rather than passive consumers of urban space; their practices reflect communal values, blurring boundaries between private and public space; and the emergence of campushood challenges existing studentification discourses by connecting students' lifeworlds across temporal and spatial dimensions. Ultimately, this study contributes to debates on spatial justice by conceptualizing “spatial capital” and foregrounding students’ voices and spatial practices in urban discourses.
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