Gender-based violence in an urban world

TY - CHAP

T1 - Gender-based violence in an urban world

AU - McIlwaine, Cathy

AU - Rizzini Ansari, Moniza

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © Linda Peake, Anindita Datta and Grace Adeniyi-Ogunyankin 2024. All rights reserved.

PY - 2024/10/15

Y1 - 2024/10/15

N2 - Gender-based violence in cities tends to be examined in isolation from urban violence and from wider structures of power across multiple city spaces. Likewise, much research on urban violence tends to be gender-blind or implies that gender is a variable rather than a process embedded within complex relations of power. However, urban violence and gendered violence against women are not individualised or exceptional processes, but rather fundamentally interlinked, intersectional, embedded and embodied within the very being of cities. This chapter addresses gender-based violence in cities through a feminist, intersectional and translocal lens, focusing on women’s experiences of marginalisation in the city through the concept of ‘gendered urban violence’. In addition, the chapter underscores women’s agency in building their own tactics of resistance through coping practices as well as longer-term strategies for transformation, especially during times of COVID-19.

AB - Gender-based violence in cities tends to be examined in isolation from urban violence and from wider structures of power across multiple city spaces. Likewise, much research on urban violence tends to be gender-blind or implies that gender is a variable rather than a process embedded within complex relations of power. However, urban violence and gendered violence against women are not individualised or exceptional processes, but rather fundamentally interlinked, intersectional, embedded and embodied within the very being of cities. This chapter addresses gender-based violence in cities through a feminist, intersectional and translocal lens, focusing on women’s experiences of marginalisation in the city through the concept of ‘gendered urban violence’. In addition, the chapter underscores women’s agency in building their own tactics of resistance through coping practices as well as longer-term strategies for transformation, especially during times of COVID-19.

KW - Gendered urban violence

KW - urban margins

KW - translocal

KW - resistance

KW - gender-based violence

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85212019497&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.4337/9781786436139.00049

DO - 10.4337/9781786436139.00049

M3 - Chapter

SN - 9781786436122

SP - 366

EP - 375

BT - Handbook on Gender and Cities

A2 - Peake, Linda

A2 - Datta, Anindita

A2 - Adeniyi-Ogunyankin, Grace

PB - Edward Elger

CY - Cheltenham

ER -