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Articulating a Framework for Safe/r Spaces with Young Women in Kenya

19/09/2024

18 pages long

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Articulating a Framework for Safe/r Spaces with Young Women in Kenya

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Using feminist approaches, I explore the relationship between safe/r spaces and young women’s civic participation in Kenya. Young women’s standpoints enable us to understand how young women are positioned in relation to institutions, structures, and resources and, in turn, how those relations shape their lives. Using this approach, for example, we can interrogate how power […]

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‘Thinna’ as a Quasi-Public Space: The case of leather homeworkers in Southern India

19/09/2024

17 pages long

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‘Thinna’ as a Quasi-Public Space: The case of leather homeworkers in Southern India

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Homeworkers form a significant part of the informal economy in the global South, are over-represented by women, and are defined by their place of work, that is, their ‘home’. As production and social reproduction intersect in the private sphere of the home, a woman’s mobility and access to public spaces is limited and gendered. Within […]

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Introduction: Gender and Public Space

19/09/2024

25 pages long

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Gender and public space

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This document introduces the Gender and Development journal's March-July 2024 special issue on 'Gender and Public Space'.

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A decolonial feminist inquiry into women’s agency in the urban landscape in 19th-century Iran

19/09/2024

25 pages long

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A decolonial feminist inquiry into women’s agency in the urban landscape in 19th-century Iran

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Proposing a socio-historical and decolonial analytical lens, I challenge the current dominant discourses surrounding Iranian women’s agency in emerging public spaces in the late 19th century. I scrutinise the urban landscape in late 19th-century Iran, drawing from a variety of archival data, such as first-hand memoirs, travelogues, and official reports, to situate Iranian women in […]

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Relations of tolerance: Syrian women, internal boundaries, and public space

19/09/2024

18 pages long

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Relations of tolerance: Syrian women, internal boundaries, and public space

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Since the early days of the Syrian Civil War, the presence of Syrians in Turkey has garnered considerable attention. Together with the European Union’s efforts to externalise the perceived problem of incoming Syrians and the consequential positioning of Syrians as unwanted, Turkish official policy labelling Syrians as temporary guests has had profound implications in society. […]

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Urban Pakistan and Women’s Mobility in Securitised Lahore

19/09/2024

11 pages long

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Urban Pakistan and Women’s Mobility in Securitised Lahore

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This article examines how policing affects women’s mobilities in the context of Lahore, Pakistan, and how it shapes sense of belonging and citizenship in the wider public sphere. Research on urban Pakistan is sparse to begin with, even more so with regards to surveillance of public space and the intersection of class, gender, and ethnicity […]

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Asking for Solidarity: Embodied feminist practices in digital space

19/09/2024

22 pages long

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Asking for Solidarity: Embodied feminist practices in digital space

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The Woman, Life, Freedom movement, beginning in September 2022, is a key chapter in the ongoing process of women’s rights activism in Iran. Social media has constituted a significant arena for asking for global solidarity with women in Iran since the initial days of this movement. The overall aim of this paper is to understand […]

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‘Solidarity Across Borders’: Online gender activism and the construction of a Middle East and North African regional public space

19/09/2024

26 pages long

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‘Solidarity Across Borders’: Online gender activism and the construction of a Middle East and North African regional public space

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Academic discourse frequently speaks of a gender violence in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), suggesting a distinctive gender violence that is tied to a geographic location. Within the framework of a digital ethnography, this research examines whether gender activists operating in digital spaces themselves conceptualise and mobilise around their struggle using a regional lens, combining observations, a […]

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Subversive Visibility: Gender, feminist protests, and public spaces in Argentina

19/09/2024

19 pages long

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Subversive Visibility: Gender, feminist protests, and public spaces in Argentina

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The paper explores the intricate character of public urban spaces, unveiling their almost contradictory nature as both a source of gendered fear and as potential spaces where subjects gain political visibility through collective interventions. Globally, nearly 90 per cent of young women below 30 years of age report feeling unsafe in public spaces. Despite the fear […]

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Resources: Gender and Public Space

19/09/2024

16 pages long

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This is the Resources section of the special issue on 'Gender and Public Space'.

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