Gendered urban violence among Brazilians: Painful truths from Rio de Janeiro and London

by Cathy McIlwaine, Paul Heritage, Miriam Krenzinger Azambuja, Moniza Rizzini Ansari, Eliana Sousa Silva

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781526175649
Publisher:	Manchester University Press
Publication date:	06/25/2024
Series:	Global Urban Transformations
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.43(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Cathy McIlwaine is Professor of Geography at King's College London.
Yara Evans is a Research Associate in the Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial College London.
Paul Heritage is Professor of Drama and Performance at Queen Mary, University of London.
Miriam Krenzinger is a Professor in the School of Social Work at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
Moniza Rizzini Ansari is a Researcher at Redes da Maré and postdoctoral research fellow at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
Eliana Sousa Silva is Founding Director of Redes da Maré and Researcher at the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of São Paulo.

Table of 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
Index