Garfias Royo, Margarita;
Parikh, Priti;
Walker, Julian;
Belur, Jyoti;
(2023)
The response to violence against women and fear of violence and the coping strategies of women in Corregidora, Mexico.
Cities
, 132
, Article 104113. 10.1016/j.cities.2022.104113.
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Abstract
This paper explores women's perceptions of sources of vulnerability to Violence Against Women (VAW) in urban public spaces and their response to this violence. The urban space of Corregidora municipality in Querétaro, Mexico was used as a case study. First-hand data on different types of VAW was gathered through 7 focus group discussions held with 50 women. The Socio-Ecological Framework (SEF) was used to analyse VAW at different levels, using a Social Construction of Space lens as a supportive conceptual framework to explore women's experience of VAW in public spaces. A Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design approach was used to develop targeted recommendations at each level of the SEF. The results show that improvements in infrastructure could be a way forward to prevent VAW in public spaces, such as the provision of lighting, reducing narrow access routes, sidewalks improvement and prioritisation of pedestrian mobility, rather than leaving the burden of responsibility of personal safety and protection to women.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | The response to violence against women and fear of violence and the coping strategies of women in Corregidora, Mexico |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.cities.2022.104113 |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2022.104113 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | This is an Open Access article published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
Keywords: | Violence against women, Fear of violence, Individual coping strategies, Vulnerability to violence, Public spaces |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10160138 |
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