Building emotional-political communities to address gendered violence against women and girls during COVID-19 in the favelas of Maré, Rio de Janeiro

McIlwaine, Cathy; Krenzinger, Miriam; Ansari, Moniza Rizzini; Resende, Noelle Coelho; Leal, Julia Gonçalves; Vieira, Fernanda

doi:10.1080/14649365.2022.2065697

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“…Our research has connected urban trauma with recent feminist writing on violence and women's resistance in the city (e.g. McIlwaine et al, 2023;Truelove and Ruszczyk, 2022), slow activism and peacebuilding (e.g. Lederach, 2023;Murrey, 2016;Piedalue, 2022;Saunders and Al-Om, 2022) and Latin American popular feminist and social movement theories (Arango-Vargas, 2021;Conway and Lebon, 2021;Gago, 2020;Motta, 2021;Safa, 1990).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…It connects urban trauma with recent feminist writing on violence and women's resistance in the city (e.g. McIlwaine et al, 2023;Truelove and Ruszczyk, 2022), slow activism and peacebuilding (Lederach, 2023;Murrey, 2016;Piedalue, 2022;Saunders and Al-Om, 2022). We draw on participatory action research co-produced with two groups of displaced women in the cities of Medellı´n and Bogota´, Colombia.…”

Section: Volviendo a Vivirmentioning

confidence: 99%

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‘Volviendo a Vivir’ (coming back to life): Urban trauma, activism and building emancipatory futures

Marzi,

Pain

2023

Urban Studies

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This paper engages recent writing on urban trauma, exploring its connection with the gendered forms of activism that displaced women practise as they seek to rebuild more emancipatory urban futures. Their activisms are situated in the context of multiple, ongoing and intersecting forms of violence from intimates, armed groups and the state, including institutional neglect (in and of the city) that is racialised and gendered. We draw on participatory action research undertaken with women in the Colombian cities of Bogotá and Medellín. Using creative audio-visual methods over several months, women co-researchers produced a documentary in which they chart the ways that they claim spaces of the city inside and outside their homes. We draw particular attention here to the temporal dimension of urban trauma as it intersects with migrant women’s spatial biographies; this has consequences for their activisms which also transcend the sites and scales of public and private spheres, national and global crises and individual and community responses. We argue that it is the gradually accruing and multiplying character of violence and trauma which in turn necessitates the gradual and multiscalar development of these activisms. The women used ecological metaphors of rooting and growth to explain how, through these activisms and directly informed by past traumatic events, they ‘come back to life’. Together, they build solidarity networks and alliances, and imagine and practise alternative feminist urban futures and modes of recovery in their new urban homes.

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‘Volviendo a Vivir’ (coming back to life): Urban trauma, activism and building emancipatory futures

Marzi,

Pain

2023

Urban Studies

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“…Eaves and Al‐Hindi point out, “the advent of COVID‐19 means that the time is now for geographers who have not already done so to take up intersectional approaches that prioritize vulnerable lives and places” (Eaves & Al‐Hindi, 2020, p. 134). This includes the analysis of suffering due to inequalities as well as of the self‐organization and protesting of marginalized groups (McIlwaine et al., 2022, p. 7). Self‐organization was also observed in stigmatized informal urban areas.…”

Section: Intersectionality and The Imagining Of Post‐pandemic Ethicsmentioning

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Uneven geographies of COVID‐19: Reviewing geographical research agendas and concepts from a syndemics perspective

Butsch,

Everts,

Bork‐Hüffer

2024

Geography Compass

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Building upon a review of geographic research agendas and concepts related to the uneven geographies of COVID‐19, this first of three articles debates the benefits of geographic analyses to the syndemic approach and, vice versa, of a syndemics perspective to geographic analyses. The syndemics perspective was proposed by critical medical anthropologists. It seeks to deepen the understanding of the structural dimensions and processes that lead to the convergence and cascading of multiple epidemics in specific population groups. Geographers have also highlighted the intersections of multiple health or other crises during COVID‐19, when the pandemic and global health emergency coincided with and escalated existing structural inequalities produced by the climate crisis, environmental degradation, political conflicts and war, socio‐economic disparities and poverty, social divisions, racism, hatred and violence, mental health problems and stress. Geographers have mobilized concepts such as scale, territory, borders and intersectionality to unravel the uneven unfolding and consequences of the global health emergency for diverse population groups. We therefore argue that geography has a lot to contribute to the understanding of the spatial and contextual dimensions of COVID‐19 as a pandemic as well as a syndemic – but it has so far not actively employed the latter concept's analytical lens. Mobilizing the syndemics approach can contribute to more comprehensive accounts of the structural dimensions and processes that continue and cascade in pandemics.

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“…symbolising the state) but their hopes for future success motivates them to continue to navigate the bureaucracy and gain approvals for their small businesses. McIlwaine et al’s (2023) investigation of gender-based violence in Rio de Janeiro during COVID-19 shows how emotions such as loss and desperation can lead to ‘emotional-political community building’ (page 577) that brings about not only immediate responses to crises but also promote longer-term structural change.…”

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Social geography III: Emotions and affective spatialities

2023

Progress in Human Geography

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The emotions and the affective qualities of space (i.e. affective spatialities) have featured prominently in social geography research. This report discusses how recent studies have taken seriously earlier critiques of affect theory, foregrounding intersubjective relations, collectives and the socio-spatial hierarchies of power instead. The emotions can be mobilised to serve entrenched interests or challenge power hierarchies in social life, including through digitally mediated spaces. Whether in real or digital life, emotional labour and emotion work are constitutive of temporality, sociality and spatiality. The report concludes by reflecting on what ‘caring-with’ the emotions means for our institutions and the international academy.

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Building emotional-political communities to address gendered violence against women and girls during COVID-19 in the favelas of Maré, Rio de Janeiro

Cited by 7 publications

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‘Volviendo a Vivir’ (coming back to life): Urban trauma, activism and building emancipatory futures

‘Volviendo a Vivir’ (coming back to life): Urban trauma, activism and building emancipatory futures

Uneven geographies of COVID‐19: Reviewing geographical research agendas and concepts from a syndemics perspective

Social geography III: Emotions and affective spatialities

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