Full Description
This book aims to examine the nature of and resistance to gendered urban violence among Brazilian women in London and in the favelas of Maré, Rio de Janeiro. Drawing on the conceptualisation of translocational gendered urban violence framework, it highlights the importance of examining direct forms of gender-based violence across private, public and transnational spheres as interlinked with structural, symbolic and infrastructural violence. The book also explores the embodied and spatialised nature of gendered urban violence, considered through artistic engagements and arts-based methods. In developing a translocational feminist tracing methodological and epistemological approach across the social sciences and the arts, the book argues for the importance of a collaborative approach among academic, civil society organisations, artists and creative researchers with a view to engendering empathetic transformation to address gendered urban violence in the long-term.
An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.
Contents
1 Introduction: revealing and resisting the 'painful truths' of gendered urban violence
2 Translocational gendered urban violence conceptual framework
3 Translocational feminist tracing methodological framework
4 Situating gendered urban violence in Rio de Janeiro and London
5 Revealing the painful truths of gendered violence in the private sphere in Rio de Janeiro and London
6 Revealing the painful truths of gendered violence in the public sphere in Rio de Janeiro and London
7 Gendered infrastructural violence and barriers to support in Rio de Janeiro and London
8 Resisting and negotiating gendered urban violence in Rio de Janeiro and London
9 Conclusions: Reframing gendered urban violence from a translocational feminist perspective
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