Mapping Gendered Infrastructures: Critical Reflections on Violence Against Women in India. (2nd July 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Datta, Ayona; Ahmed, Nabeela
• Other Names: Samuel Flora guestEditor.; Hatleskog Eli guestEditor.
• Is Part Of: Architectural design. Volume 90:Number 4(2020)
• Page Start: 104
• Page End: 111
• Publication Date: 2020-07-02
• Subjects: Thiruvananthapuram -- Kerala -- India -- King's College London -- 'Intimate Infrastructures: Disconnected Infrastructures and Violence Against Women' -- Safetipin Nite -- geographic information system (GIS) maps -- 100 Smart Cities initiative -- Integrated Command and Control Centre -- 'safety corridor'; 729
• DOI: 10.1002/ad.2597
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0003-8504

Abstract

Abstract: Using geographical information systems and participatory mapping with women from low‐income areas of Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India, revealed their fears of violence against them, but equally the spatiotemporal 'dark spots' where this might occur. This in turn influenced infrastructure policy and provoked the introduction of a 'she corridor'. Ayona Datta, a professor of geography at University College London, and Nabeela Ahmed, postdoctoral research fellow at the Sheffield Institute of International Development, tell us how.