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Introduction: (En)countering sexual violence in the Indian city
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posted on 2023-06-09, 17:38 authored by Atreyee Sen, Raminder KaurRaminder Kaur, Emilija ZabiliuteOver the past few decades, incidents of rape, sexual discrimination, honour killing, acid attacks and sex-related murders in Indian cities have come under much media and public scrutiny, significantly impacting conceptions of gender, risk and women’s safety in urban spaces. The city itself has become a dominant trope for underscoring the anxieties, discourses and exegesis of sexual violence, as exemplified in the oft-cited designation of Delhi as the ‘rape capital of India’. This introduction to the themed section critically engages with ‘the urban’ in attempts to understand sexual violence in India, and focuses on the multiple public (workplace, leisure, street lives) and private (domestic, intimate) arenas of urban life where sexual violence is encountered, and the resources they provide to counter it. The co-editors engage with the interdisciplinary research papers by contributing authors, that show how sexual violence is ‘(en)countered’ in women’s right-wing politics, processes of cultural production, community health activism, experiences of violent relationships, and men’s growing anxieties about women’s self-determination in Indian cities. With a specific ethnographic emphasis on women’s experiences of rhetoric, representation and resistance to harassment, the themed section analyses sexual violence through the lens of urban social and spatial transformation in the region.
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Gender, Place and CultureISSN
0966-369XPublisher
Taylor & FrancisExternal DOI
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- Anthropology Publications
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2019-04-26First Open Access (FOA) Date
2020-05-28First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2019-04-25Usage metrics
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