NAVIGATING UNIVERSITY SPACES: STUDENTS’ ASPIRATIONS, BOUNDARIES, AND TRANSFORMATIONS IN INDIA AND THE PHILIPPINES

这个项目的目的是探讨学生日益增加的异质性和他们在（学生）生活中机会的差异。在大学的社会空间中，不平等和排斥是如何经历、处理和克服的？研究将在印度和菲律宾这两个亚洲国家的大学进行，这两个国家的学生群体在阶级、性别、种族、民族和其他区分标志方面都出现了明显的异质化。从理论上讲，该项目借鉴了“归属”的新概念，并通过不平等研究、边界制定和（去）分化的概念进行了丰富。在方法上，它通过民族志手段从微观角度进行观察，观察学生的轨迹以及大学校园内社会空间星座的形成和破坏的叙述。对比方法将有助于更好地掌握社会背景、相似和冲突模式的重要性，并概括研究结果。

The aim of this project is to explore the increasing heterogeneity of students and the disparity of their chances in (student) life. How are inequalities and exclusions experienced, tackled and overcome within the social spaces of the university? Research will be conducted at universities in two Asian countries – India and the Philippines – both of which are currently experiencing striking heterogenization of student bodies in terms of class, gender, race, ethnicity, and other differentiating markers. Theoretically, the project draws on new conceptualizations of ‘belonging,’ enriched by inequality research, the concepts of boundary-making and that of (de)differentiation. Methodologically, it engages in micro-perspectives through ethnographic means, observing student trajectories and narratives of the making and un-making of socio-spatial constellations on university premises. The contrasting approach will help to better grasp the importance of social contexts, similar and conflicting patterns, and in generalizing the findings.