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Offers an arts-based, storying, textual and visual lens on gender-based violence in the UK and Mexico.
This book is a unique image-based bilingual (English and Spanish) book of textual and visual narratives of gender-based violence (GBV) in the UK and Mexico, framed with a critical commentary that sets these stories in the context of GBV in both countries.
Visual and textual stories convey the 'felt' experience of GBV, engaging readers and audiences in the apparently mundane as well as the shocking. Such stories help contest the prominence of crime statistics in evidencing GBV, statistics which often distort experience and reflect and maintain exclusionary policies and practices, particularly for minoritised communities.
The transnational project on which this book is based invited artists and creative writers from diverse backgrounds in the UK and Mexico to respond to lived accounts of GBV in comic stories, short stories, poems, 3D installations, fine art photography, painting and film. This book brings together these visual and textual stories and sets out a series of readings and analyses that seek to further knowledge on GBV in different cultural contexts.
This book is open access under a CC BY licence.
Lesley Murray is Professor of Spatial Sociology at the University of Brighton, UK. Her most recent book is Sensory Transformations: Environments, Technologies, Sensobiographies (Routledge 2023).
Jessica Moriarty is a principal lecturer at the University of Brighton, UK where she is course leader on the Creative Writing MA. Her latest book, Conversations on Creative Process, Methods, Research and Practice, looks at feminist approaches to supporting the creative self.
Paula Soto Villagrán is Professor and Researcher of Sociology at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico. Her latest book is Una mirada de género a las prácticas de movilidad cotidiana en la Ciudad de México Aportes para la construcción de ciudades cuidadoras e inclusivas, published in 2021.
Olga Sabido Ramos is Professor and Researcher of Sociology at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico. Her latest edited book is Los sentidos del cuerpo. Un giro sensorial en la investigación social y los estudios de género (CIEG, 2019).
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
The Artworks
Chapter 1. Lesley Murray, Jessica Moriarty, Paula Soto Villagrán and Olga Sabido Ramos: Introduction
Chapter 2. Lesley Murray and Jessica Moriarty: The Immobilities of Gender-Based Violence in the Covid-19 Pandemic in the UK
Chapter 3. Olga Sabido Ramos: Trans-Sensory Storying
Chapter 4. Paula Soto Villagrán and Olga Sabido Ramos: Spaces that Listen, Feel and Resist. Spatial, Temporal and Emotional Experiences of Gender Violence in Mexico and the UK
Chapter 5. Lesley Murray: Streetwalking the Visual Narratives of Violent and Mobile Spaces
Chapter 6. Olga Sabido Ramos and Paula Soto Villagrán: Arrows of Suffering and Resistance: Situations of Gender Violence, Senses and Emotions
Chapter 7. Vicki Painting and Jessica Moriarty: Storytelling as an Agent of Change: A Duoethnographic Response to the Trans-Sensory Mobilities Project
Chapter 8. Jessica Moriarty, Lesley Murray, Olga Sabido Ramos and Paula Soto Villagrán: Stories as Social Change
Index