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Gendered urban violence among Brazilians
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23 June 2026

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Human geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Violence and abuse in society, Gender studies: women and girls, Urban communities
Cathy McIlwaine is Professor of Geography at King's College London.
Yara Evans is a Research Associate in the Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial College London.
Paul Heritage is Professor of Drama and Performance at Queen Mary, University of London.
Miriam Krenzinger is a Professor in the School of Social Work at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
Moniza Rizzini Ansari is a Researcher at Redes da Maré and postdoctoral research fellow at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
Eliana Sousa Silva is Founding Director of Redes da Maré and Researcher at the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of São Paulo.
1 Introduction: revealing and resisting the ‘painful truths’ of gendered urban violence
2 Translocational gendered urban violence conceptual framework
3 Translocational feminist tracing methodological framework
4 Situating gendered urban violence in Rio de Janeiro and London
5 Revealing the painful truths of gendered violence in the private sphere in Rio de Janeiro and London
6 Revealing the painful truths of gendered violence in the public sphere in Rio de Janeiro and London
7 Gendered infrastructural violence and barriers to support in Rio de Janeiro and London
8 Resisting and negotiating gendered urban violence in Rio de Janeiro and London
9 Conclusions: Reframing gendered urban violence from a translocational feminist perspective
Index