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The role of rituals and cultural heritage in post-disaster social resilience: the case of Antakya

12/02/2025

19 pages long

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The role of rituals and cultural heritage in post-disaster social resilience: the case of Antakya

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This study is based on the role of rituals and cultural practices which shaped the recovery process after the earthquake in Hatay, Türkiye. We observed that those who had to leave Hatay after the earthquake tried to continue the rituals in their hometowns or only came to Hatay during ritual times and participated in this […]

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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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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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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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‘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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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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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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Gendered Urban Cycling and the Ethics of Caring: Coming to voice in the streets of Tijuana and Oaxaca amidst the patriarcarro

19/09/2024

20 pages long

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Gendered Urban Cycling and the Ethics of Caring: Coming to voice in the streets of Tijuana and Oaxaca amidst the patriarcarro

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This article explores grassroots organisations and collectives of women cyclists in the cities of Tijuana and Oaxaca, Mexico. Taking a narrative approach, it delves into the idea of public space that emerges from their life histories, chronicles, and talk groups. It contends that the narratives of their urban practices and interventions, and of their lives […]

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Imagining Black Feminist Geographies of Johannesburg Through Senzeni Marasela’s Creative (Un/Re)mapping of Johannesburg’s Mine Slopes

19/09/2024

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Imagining Black Feminist Geographies of Johannesburg Through Senzeni Marasela’s Creative (Un/Re)mapping of Johannesburg’s Mine Slopes

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Part of the project of philosophy is to problematise how the world is known, including destabilising geography as one of the dominant imperialist discourses. In the Afropolis, legacies of colonialism and Apartheid still work to uphold spatial inequality within urban spaces in ways that are both racialised and gendered. Black feminist scholar, Katherine McKittrick, provides […]

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Public Spaces, Street Art, and the Challenges of Feminist Ecological Citizenship in Chile

19/09/2024

20 pages long

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Public Spaces, Street Art, and the Challenges of Feminist Ecological Citizenship in Chile

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While considerable literature examines the intersection between feminism and ecology, as well as the intersection between feminism and urbanism, few studies address the intersection between feminism and ecology by looking at aesthetic activism in the city. This essay explores the synergies and potential connections between the idea of body/territory and feminist ecological citizenship through the […]

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