Blog – Page 2 – Transnational Perspective On Violence Against Women

Migrants in Action (MinA)

Blog Series: reposting Latin America Bureau and King’s College London partnership As part of our ongoing collaborative Women Resisting Violence project in partnership between LAB and King’s College London, we are spotlighting Latin American grassroots campaigns and organisations that counter violence against women and girls. Read on to learn about Migrants in Action, a community theatre group led by

Understanding violence against women and girls in Brazil

Blog Series: reposting Latin America Bureau and King’s College London partnership As part of our ongoing collaborative Women Resisting Violence project in partnership between LAB and King’s College London, we are also reposting content on violence against women and girls and resistance strategies in Latin America. Read on to learn about the intersectionality of violence against women and girls

LAWRS | Step Up Migrant Women Campaign

Blog Series: reposting Latin America Bureau and King’s College London partnership As part of our ongoing collaborative Women Resisting Violence project in partnership between LAB and King’s College London, we are spotlighting Latin American grassroots campaigns and organisations that counter violence against women and girls. Read on to learn about the #StepUpMigrantWomen campaign, led by the Latin American Women’s

Redes da Maré and Casa das Mulheres, Rio de Janeiro

Blog Series: reposting Latin America Bureau and King’s College London partnership As part of our ongoing collaborative Women Resisting Violence project in partnership between LAB and King’s College London, we are spotlighting Latin American grassroots campaigns and organisations that counter violence against women and girls. Read on to learn about Redes da Maré, who feature in our Women Resisting

Focus groups and creativity for understanding gender-based violence against women

Blog Series: Methodological engagements for understanding violence against women and girls in cities * by Cathy McIlwaine & Moniza Rizzini Ansari Exploring the multi-layered and intersectional complexity of gender-based violence against women in contexts of poverty and urban armed violence is no simple task. It requires interdisciplinary and multi-method approaches to capture the multiple forms

Practical and ethical challenges of international fieldwork during a pandemic

* by Cathy McIlwaine and Moniza Rizzini Ansari The effects of COVID-19 are reverberating throughout the academic world of research and teaching. While universities everywhere switch to various models of online delivery with an accompanying array of support materials being shared, less has been said about research in international settings. Certainly, there has been UKRI

Women in favelas are the backbone of responses to the coronavirus crisis in Rio de Janeiro

Favela communities have been severely affected by the coronavirus crisis intensifying existing inequalities *by Cathy McIlwaine Not a day goes by without a news story about the catastrophe of the coronavirus pandemic in Brazil as cases and deaths increase alarmingly and the severity of the political mishandling of the situation by President Jair Bolsonaro and

New research: Resisting violence, creating dignity: negotiating Violence Against Women and Girls through community history-making in Rio de Janeiro

Funded by the British Academy’s Heritage, Dignity and Violence programme as part of the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF), this new research is led by King’s College (Professor Cathy McIlwaine), with co-investigation led by Queen Mary University of London (Professor Paul Heritage) and Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Prof. Miriam Krenzinger) and Redes da

How useful is a transformative gender justice for understanding gender-based violence among migrant women through the arts? Reflections from Efêmera and Ana by Gaël le Cornec – By Cathy McIlwaine

“It’s difficult to know what to say. I want to applaud the bravery, but that feels trite. This needs to be seen, to be heard, to be felt. Because, in a way, everyone needs to know this hurt, to feel this pain, until nobody does. I count my blessings that I have never suffered this

The Future of Cities is Female – By Cathy McIlwaine

On the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, URBANET features an article by Cathy McIlwaine that discusses the question of gender-based violence in cities. Read more: