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Abstract
This paper develops an innovative “embodied counter-mapping”
methodological, ontological and conceptual approach to capture
how women experience and resist gendered urban violence
perpetrated by men and the state across multiple “bodycommunity–city territories”. Embodied counter-mapping
incorporates cuerpo-territorio or body-territory mapping in
dialogue with participatory territorial mapping to reveal how
women experience gendered urban violence across a complex
spatial and relational continuum that integrates resistance.
Focusing on body-community–city territorial relationships among
women “inside” and “outside” the favelas of Maré in Rio de
Janeiro, the paper highlights how intimate partner, interpersonal,
and police and armed group violence is embodied, intersectional
and spatialized. In turn, women’s resistance across these
territories is rooted in individual and collective ancestral and
transgenerational knowledge, self-care, and deep connections
with nature. The paper makes original contributions to ongoing
feminist urban geographical and decolonial debates in
highlighting the gendered nature of urban violence, asserting the
need to focus on body-nature-territorial relationships among
women in the urban margins, arguing for spatially sensitive
territorial continuum thinking around gendered violence and
resistance, all of which can be achieved through mobilizing our
embodied counter-mapping approach that foregrounds women’s
roles as protagonists rather victims.
methodological, ontological and conceptual approach to capture
how women experience and resist gendered urban violence
perpetrated by men and the state across multiple “bodycommunity–city territories”. Embodied counter-mapping
incorporates cuerpo-territorio or body-territory mapping in
dialogue with participatory territorial mapping to reveal how
women experience gendered urban violence across a complex
spatial and relational continuum that integrates resistance.
Focusing on body-community–city territorial relationships among
women “inside” and “outside” the favelas of Maré in Rio de
Janeiro, the paper highlights how intimate partner, interpersonal,
and police and armed group violence is embodied, intersectional
and spatialized. In turn, women’s resistance across these
territories is rooted in individual and collective ancestral and
transgenerational knowledge, self-care, and deep connections
with nature. The paper makes original contributions to ongoing
feminist urban geographical and decolonial debates in
highlighting the gendered nature of urban violence, asserting the
need to focus on body-nature-territorial relationships among
women in the urban margins, arguing for spatially sensitive
territorial continuum thinking around gendered violence and
resistance, all of which can be achieved through mobilizing our
embodied counter-mapping approach that foregrounds women’s
roles as protagonists rather victims.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Number of pages | 26 |
| Specialist publication | URBAN GEOGRAPHY |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 5 Nov 2024 |
Keywords
- Counter-mapping
- body-territory mapping
- ; gendered urban violence
- resistance
- body-community–city territories
- continuum of violence
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Resisting violence, creating dignity: negotiating Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) through community history-making in Rio de Janeiro
McIlwaine, C. (Primary Investigator)
18/11/2019 → 30/11/2022
Project: Research
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Healthy, Secure and Gender Just Cities: Transnational Perspectives on Violence against Women and Girls (VAWG) in Rio de Janeiro and London
McIlwaine, C. (Primary Investigator)
ESRC Economic and Social Research Council
1/07/2017 → 31/05/2018
Project: Research