Gender and Public Space

Volume 32, Issue 1&2 | March-July 2024

 
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This collection brings together multiple theoretical approaches to gender and public space and foregrounds the experiences of marginalised groups across religion, caste, sexuality and gender, class, race, ethnicity, and citizenship status, all of which shape engagements with public spaces.  Articles in this collection explore urban, suburban, and rural public spaces, neighbourhoods, parks, streets, digital platforms, university campuses, plazas, sugarcane fields, and more. Contributions reflect on the transformative potential of reclaiming public spaces through movement, writing, art, and protest by historically marginalised groups who assert their right to exist and thrive within spaces historically designed to exclude them. Importantly, articles in this special issue stress that community, care, and ecological sustainability must be integrated into the planning and design of public spaces in order to challenge neoliberal and extractive logics, oppression, and violence that constitute the making of urban publics, and reinscribe newer meanings to publics, public spaces, and publicness.

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Articles

Introduction- Gender and Public Space 
Pumla Dineo Gqola, Iromi Perera, Shilpa Phadke, Nazanin Shahrokni, Sofia Zaragocin, Shivani Satija & Anandita Ghosh

Gendered urban cycling and the ethics of caring: coming to voice in the streets of Tijuana and Oaxaca amidst the patriarcarro
María Ávila & Alejandro Zamora

Imagining black feminist geographies of Johannesburg through Senzeni Marasela’s creative (un/re)mapping of Johannesburg’s mine slopes 
Jana Vosloo

Public spaces, street art, and the challenges of feminist ecological citizenship in Chile
Daniela Vicherat Mattar

The (un)tenable flaneuse: an inquiry into the politics of women walking in war-entrenched Kabul
Anuska Paul

Plaza las Pioneras: an urban feminist space and the politics of the commons
Charmain Levy & Lilian Celiberti

A decolonial feminist inquiry into women’s agency in the urban landscape in 19th-century Iran
Mahbubeh Moqadam

Engendering migrant counterpublics: fun, care, solidarity, and resistance among Ethiopian domestic workers in Lebanon
Bina Fernandez

Women’s search for public space and leisure in Agra: cots, courtyards, and riverbank
Mahima Taneja

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
Garyfallia (Fyllio) Katsavounidou

‘There’s nowhere for us’: spatial and scalar experiences of judgement amongst young women in the UK
Olivia Theocharides-Feldman & Julia King

Making money moves: rural women, returnees, and renegotiations of sex work through the street in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Elizabeth Dessie

Transient spaces, temporary alliances: harvesting breathing spaces in India’s sugarcane fields
Reetika Revathy Subramanian

Navigating the city: gendered work experiences in urban spaces
Belén Martínez Caparrós

Reclaiming public spaces: experiences of social exclusion of female sanitary workers in public spaces in Lahore, Pakistan
Khadija Aftab, Fouzia Sadaf, Abida Sharif & Ayesha Aqeel Ahmed

COVID-19 violence and the re-making of urban space through solidarity networks among transgender women in Lima, Peru
Amaya Perez-Brumer, Ernesto Cuba, Mariangela Castro-Arteaga, Julien Brisson, Alfonso Silva-Santisteban & Leyla Huerta

A campus far removed: affect, genders, and space at Argentina’s largest public university
Griselda Flesler & Carolina Spataro

Pride and the politics of activism in South and South-East Asia: a transdisciplinary conversation
Wikke Jansen, Hamzah Faraz Karamat, Kai Mata & Chandrika Yogarajah

Intimate life-making and infrastructures of trans masculine desire
Noah Lubinsky & B Lee-Harrison Aultman

Moving along, stopping at: the gendering of the public spaces in Al Wehdat Camp in Amman, Jordan
Nama’a Qudah

‘Just like being back in Ethiopia’: gender, ethnicity, and belonging in Footscray
Hanna Moges Lemma & Ceridwen Spark

Relations of tolerance: Syrian women, internal boundaries, and public space
Buket Özdemir Dal & Itır Aladağ Görentaş

Articulating a framework for safe/r spaces with young women in Kenya
Judyannet Muchiri

‘Thinna’ as a quasi-public space: the case of leather homeworkers in Southern India
Iswarya Priya Jagannathan

Urban Pakistan and women’s mobility in securitised Lahore
Angbeen Abbas

Asking for solidarity: embodied feminist practices in digital space
Heba Sigurdardottir, Majid Imani & Zahra Edalati

‘Solidarity Across Borders’: online gender activism and the construction of a Middle East and North African regional public space
Bronwen Mehta

Subversive visibility: Gender, feminist protests, and public spaces in Argentina
Anna Bednarczyk

Resources

Here you can find additional materials related to the issue. These are compiled by Anandita Ghosh and Shivani Satija.

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Book Reviews

Superheroes in the Streets: Muslim Women Activists and Protest in the Digital Age by Kimberly Wedeven Segall. Reviewed by Himalika Mohanty

Patriarchy in Practice: Ethnographies of Everyday Masculinities edited by Nikki van der Gaag, Amir Massoumian and Dan Nightingale. Reviewed by Deborah Eade

Gender, Digitalization, and Resilience in International Development: Failing Forward by Julia Bello-Bravo, John William Medendorp, Anne Namatsi Lutomia and Barry Robert Pittendrigh. Reviewed by Nidhi Tandon

Migration and Development in India: The Bihar Experience by Amrita Datta. Reviewed by Pushpendra