%0 Journal Article
%T Blue
%A Elizabeth Ellcessor
%J International Journal of Cultural Studies
%@ 1460-356X
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1367877918820336
%X In recent years, movements such as #metoo, Slutwalk, and others have drawn attention to women¡¯s experiences of a lack of safety in public, professional, and educational spaces. This article steps back to an earlier era of such activism, tracking the context in which blue-light emergency phones were installed on college and university campuses in the United States. I argue that blue-light phones constitute an infrastructure of feeling, drawing on Raymond Williams¡¯ classic formulation of the ¡®structure of feeling¡¯. They served not only to address emergent understandings of campus safety (particularly sexual assault), but to produce affective experiences of ¡®safety¡¯ among students, parents, and administrators. The infrastructure of blue-light emergency phones then concretized that structure of feeling in such a way as to render it more dominant, more persistent, and more tightly intertwined with local campus cultures, not only at the time, but through to the present day
%K activism
%K affect
%K archive
%K campus
%K feminism
%K infrastructure
%K safety
%K telephony
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1367877918820336