‘Gendered urban violence among Brazilians’ aims to understand the ‘painful truths’ of gendered violence in the city and how women challenge it through resistance and creative practices.

Drawing on collaborative research with women in the favelas of Maré in Rio de Janeiro and among Brazilian migrants in London, this book conceives gendered urban violence as multidimensional, multiscalar and deeply embedded within structural and intersectional power relations.

In centring the painful truths of gendered urban violence as revealed by women, the book contributes to a range of important debates that include acknowledging such violence as direct and indirect ranging from the body to the global from a translocational perspective, and the role of the arts in capturing these relationships.

Join us for a discussion with Professor Cathy Mcllwaine and her co-authors including Dr Yara Evans , with a performance by Gaël Le Cornec, and interactive workshop activities by Migrants in Action to understand how creative engagements are crucial for understanding and resisting gendered urban violence and generating empathetic change.

Refreshments will be available from 5pm, with the event starting at 5:30pm

Speakers

Professor Cathy Mcllwaine

Cathy is Professor of Geography, Vice Dean (Research) for the Faculty of Social Sciences and Public Policy (SSPP), and co-convenes the Visual Embodied Methodologies (VEM) Network at King’s.

Cathy’s research revolves around issues of gender, poverty and violence in cities, especially in Latin America, and among migrants in London. The latter focuses on low-paid migrant workers in general and specifically the Latin American community in relation to transnational livelihoods, citizenship and gendered violence.

Cathy also works with arts and theatre organisations, such as the People’s Palace Projects, CASA Latin American Theatre Festival, Footprint Productions, and Migrants in Action. She has collaboratively produced (with Gaël le Cornec) a verbatim theatre play (Efêmera), a short film based on this (Ana), a sound-performance installation (Believe), and a multi-media video installation We Still Fight in the Dark, all based on her research on violence against women and girls.

Suzanne Hall

Suzanne is Director of Engagement at the Policy Institute at King’s, and highly skilled qualitative researcher with 20 years of public policy research experience. She represents the Policy Institute on the Ageing Research at King's (ARK) Committee.

Suzanne’s work encompasses embedding qualitative and deliberative methods in the work of the Policy Institute. She is developing new, innovative approaches to involving citizens in policy making, and is currently co-investigator on the project ‘Intersectional Gendered Violence’ with the VEM Network.

Suzanne is using findings from the project strands in policy labs to explore ways of shaping policy and influencing policy makers in their understanding of gendered violence.

Dr Yara Evans

Yara is a Research Associate at the Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial College London and has over 15 years of expertise in social research, having participated in research that examined the use and management of natural resources in rural areas, sustainable livelihoods, and community participation in development initiatives and sustainable development in the Global South.

Yara has also developed expertise in social research methods, including surveys, workshops, stakeholder engagement tools, and participatory rapid appraisal. She has also collaborated in various EU-funded projects (i.e., Horizon2020, BBJU), carrying out a social-economic assessment, social sustainability assessment, and examining stakeholder engagement in projects relating to the bioeconomy and renewable energy, particularly bioenergy.

Migrants in Action (MinA), with Carolina Cal Angrisani

Migrants in Action are an organisation dedicated to creating a platform where migrant women from the Global Majority in the UK can share their narratives through diverse art forms. Through participatory arts approaches in research and engagement, they create a dynamic platform for collaborative projects where women are active co-creators, having their voices and experiences as the bedrock in their artistic endeavors.

Gaël Le Cornec

Gaël explores themes of gender, identity, displacement and environmental issues through women’s voices. She makes theatre & films as a solo artist and with communities - often collaborating with women’s rights agencies, young adults and migrants - bringing unheard voices to audiences across the globe with her company Footprint Productions.