eprintid: 10089930
rev_number: 28
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datestamp: 2020-01-21 17:12:33
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creators_name: Datta, A
creators_name: Ahmed, N
title: Intimate Infrastructures: The rubrics of gendered safety and urban violence in India
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: B03
divisions: C03
divisions: F26
keywords: Infrastructure, Violence, Intimate, Gender, Urban, Kerala, India, Safety
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abstract: Urban infrastructures can enable and embody multiple forms of violence against women; from the spectacular and immediate, to the slow, everyday and intimate. Disconnections and absences of infrastructure – such as water and sanitation, to public transport and toilets – fracture peripheries and low-income neighbourhoods from resources, rights and mobility within the city, and in everyday life, enacting some of the largest tolls on women. This 'infrastructural violence' (Rodgers and O’Neill, 2012) is experienced in intimate ways by women in low-income neighbourhoods. While they lack access to adequate resources in urban settlements they simultaneously face all forms of physical violence during access to and use of water, toilets, public transport, energy use and walkways. Drawing from empirical fieldwork in the city of Thiruvanathapuram, Kerala, in southern India, we adopt an expanded notion of infrastructure that is mutually constitututive of gender-based relations of power and violence from the home to the city. Developing the rubrics of gendered safety and urban violence, we argue first, that lack of access to infrastructure is a form of intimate violence and second, that this violence is experienced and constituted through multiple scales, forms, sites and temporalities of infrastructural absence. In doing so, we further contribute to the extension of debates in feminist critical geography to critique binary constructions of gender based violence, by collapsing hierarchies of intimate and structural violence as the violence of infrastructure.
date: 2020-03
date_type: published
publisher: Elsevier
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2020.01.016
oa_status: green
full_text_type: other
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
article_type_text: Article
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elements_id: 1742883
doi: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2020.01.016
lyricists_name: Datta, Ayona
lyricists_id: ADATT87
actors_name: Zahnhausen-Stuber, Petra
actors_id: PMZAH20
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: Geoforum
volume: 110
pagerange: 67-76
citation:        Datta, A;    Ahmed, N;      (2020)    Intimate Infrastructures: The rubrics of gendered safety and urban violence in India.                   Geoforum , 110    pp. 67-76.    10.1016/j.geoforum.2020.01.016 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2020.01.016>.       Green open access   
 
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