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Beyond agency and passivity: Situating a gendered articulation of urban violence in Brazil and El Salvador

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  • Mo Hume

    (University of Glasgow College of Social Sciences, UK)

  • Polly Wilding

    (University of Leeds, UK)

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This paper argues for a situated politics of women’s agency in enduring intimate partner violence (IPV) in contexts of extreme urban violence. We contend that interrogating agency as dynamic and lived facilitates an acknowledgement of the multi-scalar entanglements of violence across urban spaces. Recognising the complexities in human agency holds the potential for a radical gendered urban politics to emerge whereby people are neither simplistically victims nor pawns of violent processes, but located within dynamic ‘webs of social relations’ (Cumbers A, Helms G and Swanson K (2010) Class, agency and resistance in the old industrial city. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography 42(1): 54). Drawing on feminist theory, our conceptualisation of agency serves as a lens through which we can examine the dynamic and gendered nature of urban violence as rooted in multiple social relations (McNay L (2010) Feminism and post-identity politics: The problem of agency. Constellations 17(4): 512–525). The paper draws on research in the urban peripheries of Rio de Janiero and San Salvador.

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  • Mo Hume & Polly Wilding, 2020. "Beyond agency and passivity: Situating a gendered articulation of urban violence in Brazil and El Salvador," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 57(2), pages 249-266, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:urbstu:v:57:y:2020:i:2:p:249-266
    DOI: 10.1177/0042098019829391
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