ABSTRACT
In recent years, calls for safe spaces have become a recurrent feature in campus politics. As with all the trends explored in this book, the advocacy of safe spaces on campuses resonates with developments in wider society. Numerous professions and campaigning groups, including social workers, psychologists, educators, doctors, sex workers and probation offi cers, have raised support for safe spaces. Safe space is often portrayed as a human right for vulnerable groups such as refugees 1 and has become integrated into the vocabulary of twenty-fi rst-century political protest. Activists for the international Occupy Movement, which emerged in September 2011, argued that safe spaces were vital for helping its supporters gain confi dence.
