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Women’s Search for Public Space and Leisure in Agra: Cots, courtyards, and riverbank

19/09/2024

20 pages long

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Women’s Search for Public Space and Leisure in Agra: Cots, courtyards, and riverbank

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Historians have often highlighted the centrality of bazaars and the streets in urban public life in India as a space for politics and mobilisation. Historically, these bazaars and streets have been the domain of men, while spaces created by dominant urban planning logics like sequestered parks and enclosed marketplaces are marked by exclusion across various […]

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Where and How Girls Play When They Are Too Old For Playgrounds? Young girls and the space of the Greek neighbourhood in urban, suburban, and rural childhood memories

19/09/2024

21 pages long

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Where and How Girls Play When They Are Too Old For Playgrounds? Young girls and the space of the Greek neighbourhood in urban, suburban, and rural childhood memories

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Gendered experience of public space during childhood and adolescence, both in the global North and in the global South, creates asymmetries and inequalities between girls and boys in terms of levels of autonomy, opportunities for play and socialising, and sense of social safety. Young Architecture students, who grew up in a variety of settlements in […]

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‘There’s Nowhere For Us’: Spatial and scalar experiences of judgement amongst young women in the UK

19/09/2024

21 pages long

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‘There’s Nowhere For Us’: Spatial and scalar experiences of judgement amongst young women in the UK

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Public space and youth

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This paper addresses girls and young women’s experiences of spatial forms of judgement in the public spaces of their local areas. It posits the feminist question: what is the relationship between judgement, gender, youth, and the material realities that make up the public realm? Findings are derived from two seven-week long peer research projects on public space […]

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Making Money Moves: Rural women, returnees, and renegotiations of sex work through the street in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

19/09/2024

19 pages long

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Making Money Moves: Rural women, returnees, and renegotiations of sex work through the street in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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Feminist research has highlighted both the emancipatory components of sex work on women’s lives, as well as the problematic nature of an overly romanticised reading of women’s sexual labour. In Ethiopian cities, including the capital, Addis Ababa, rural migrant women and returnee women from the Gulf States are confronted with layered forms of structural disadvantage […]

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Transient Spaces, Temporary Alliances: Harvesting breathing spaces in India’s sugarcane fields

19/09/2024

22 pages long

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Transient Spaces, Temporary Alliances: Harvesting breathing spaces in India’s sugarcane fields

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Marathwada is a historically drought-affected and caste-ridden region in Maharashtra, and a reflection of India’s story of exclusionary economic growth. Poor rainfall, extractive agrarian practices, and social exclusion have forced nearly one million marginal farm families and landless communities to harvest sugarcane in neighbouring districts. They are recruited in pairs, as a koyta, almost universally comprising […]

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Navigating the City: Gendered work experiences in urban spaces

19/09/2024

20 pages long

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Navigating the City: Gendered work experiences in urban spaces

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Women around the world experience much higher levels of fear of crime, profoundly impacting their perceptions of safety and influencing their interactions with public spaces. This fear prompts women to alter their behaviour, such as avoiding specific urban areas and public transport, especially after dark. While many amend their habits and limit their exposure to […]

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Reclaiming Public Spaces: Experiences of social exclusion of female sanitary workers in public spaces in Lahore, Pakistan

19/09/2024

21 pages long

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Reclaiming Public Spaces: Experiences of social exclusion of female sanitary workers in public spaces in Lahore, Pakistan

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This research explores the challenges faced by female Christian sanitary workers in the public spaces of Lahore, Pakistan, utilising Nancy Fraser’s analytical framework of redistribution, recognition, and representation to uncover multifaceted factors contributing to their societal marginalisation. Through in-depth interviews with 19 participants, the study sheds light on significant economic, sociocultural, and political barriers, including […]

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COVID-19 Violence and the Re-making of Urban Space Through Solidarity Networks Among Transgender Women in Lima, Peru

19/09/2024

22 pages long

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COVID-19 Violence and the Re-making of Urban Space Through Solidarity Networks Among Transgender Women in Lima, Peru

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Extreme instances of COVID-19 policy-related violence against transgender (trans) communities in Latin America highlight the imperative to better understand how gender, power, and rights are entwined within public spaces. Peru is a useful vantage point to explore the intersections between gendered power asymmetries, violence, and access to safe public spaces, given the brief COVID-19 public […]

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A Campus Far Removed: Affect, genders, and space at Argentina’s largest public university

19/09/2024

24 pages long

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A Campus Far Removed: Affect, genders, and space at Argentina’s largest public university

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Extreme instances of COVID-19 policy-related violence against transgender (trans) communities in Latin America highlight the imperative to better understand how gender, power, and rights are entwined within public spaces. Peru is a useful vantage point to explore the intersections between gendered power asymmetries, violence, and access to safe public spaces, given the brief COVID-19 public […]

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Pride and the Politics of Activism in South and South-East Asia: A transdisciplinary conversation

19/09/2024

15 pages long

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Pride and the Politics of Activism in South and South-East Asia: A transdisciplinary conversation

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The notion of pride in the context of queer activism and community organising has been questioned by South and South-East Asian scholars and practitioners regarding its Eurocentric genealogies, its emphasis on visibility, and its reliance on capitalist and consumerist practices. This article builds on an online public panel discussion hosted at Heidelberg University on 15 […]

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