Project Updates

New Blog Post: The Infrastructures of Gendered Violence Reading Group

7 October 2020

With a lively and flexible format—we do not follow a specific set of readings but rather decide what to read during our sessions—the Infrastructures of Gendered Violence (IGV) reading group at the Department of Sociology has allowed us to think about different frameworks and entry points to discuss the complexities of...

Solidarity statement on the caste and gender based violence in Hathras, India

15 September 2020

On 14th September 2020, a 19 year old woman of the Dalit Valmiki caste was gangraped and mutilated by four men of the upper Thakur caste in a village named Hathras, in the state of Uttar Pradesh in north India. She was left severely paralyzed and fought for her life in the hospital for two weeks before finally succumbing...

New Blog Post: Performing Masculinities and Class in Contemporary India and South Africa

7 September 2020

Dr. Shannon Philip interviews Prof. Langa from the University of Wits about his book: 'Becoming Men: Black Masculinities in a South African Township', and the paralells and differences in their work on masculinities in India and South Africa: Recently I had the pleasure of interviewing Professor Malose Langa from the...

The GendV Project's Co-investigator Sanjay Srivastava speaks about his article on 'Sexuality, Masculinity, the City and ‘Indian Traditions’ in the Contemporary Hindi ‘Detective’ Novel’

1 September 2020

Watch Prof Sanjay Srivastava speak about his article for Taylor & Francis: ‘Thrilling Affects: Sexuality, Masculinity, the City and ‘Indian Traditions’ in the Contemporary Hindi ‘Detective’ Novel’ from Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. You can watch the video below, or read the full article...

New Blog Post: Rethinking Domestic Violence Laws in South Africa

11 June 2020

The GendV Project’s Lisa Vetten has recently contributed some recommendations to South Africa’s Domestic Violence Amendment Bill, 2020. The recommendations from Lisa and her colleagues cover a range of definitions as well as the need to include new terms, services and mechanisms for the safety and wellbeing of people...

New Blog Post: Global Crisis and Gendered Lives

4 May 2020

The GendV Project has begun amid the global COVID-19 pandemic. As with many other research projects, the pandemic has forced the research team to innovate and find new ways of working and thinking. We will soon begin a preliminary round of interviews with our NGO partners and other organisations on the ground to assess the...

New Blog Post: The Infrastructures of Gendered Violence Reading Group

Solidarity statement on the caste and gender based violence in Hathras, India

New Blog Post: Performing Masculinities and Class in Contemporary India and South Africa

The GendV Project's Co-investigator Sanjay Srivastava speaks about his article on 'Sexuality, Masculinity, the City and ‘Indian Traditions’ in the Contemporary Hindi ‘Detective’ Novel’

New Blog Post: Rethinking Domestic Violence Laws in South Africa

New Blog Post: Global Crisis and Gendered Lives

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