Articles | Volume 79, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-79-283-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-79-283-2024
Forum contribution
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11 Sep 2024
Forum contribution |  | 11 Sep 2024

Urban geography in crisis times: insights from a feminist project

Linda Peake, Mantha Katsikana, Grace Adeniyi-Ogunyankin, Anindita Datta, Swagata Basu, Karen de Souza, Penn Tsz Ting Ip, Joy Marcus, Carmen Ponce, Nasya S. Razavi, Araby Smyth, and Biftu Yousuf

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In this intervention we ask, “what counts as crisis?” We query the adeptness of Eurocentric epistemologies that conceptualize crises through rupture. We turn to a framing of crisis that builds on continuity, honing in on the everyday violence that women experience. Our research in Cochabamba, Delhi, Georgetown, Ibadan, Ramallah, and Shanghai shows that one in every two women participants had experienced intimate partner violence. We also ask what crises mean for the methodologies we employ.