On Wednesday September 26th 2018, Professor Tamsin Bradley, the academic lead for the two projects currently featured on this website: ‘Women, Work and Violence in South Asia’, and ‘Narratives of violence: the impact of internal displacement on violence against women in Nepal and Myanmar’. Her lecture gave an informative and wide-sweeping account of her journey and experience so far working as an academic on issues related to women’s experience of violence. The coverage is best summed up in the following abstract:
From Rural Rajasthan to Urban Khartoum: Women tell their Stories of Violence, Agency and Resilience.
Abstract:
This lecture will explore how women in different parts of the world experience and respond to violence. Specifically it will reflect on how, even in the most challenging of circumstances, women use agency to challenge and build what resilience they can. Violence against women and girls is a global epidemic. Estimates published by the World Health Organisation claim that 35% of all women have experiences either physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence in their lifetime. Resilience to the constant presence of violence in everyday life for many women comes through strong peer networks and role models. This lecture will offer stories and reflections from a number of powerful change agents whose determination to see an end to violence against women has brought greater understanding into how and why it persists. They have also demonstrated what can be achieved if agency is nurtured and supported at all levels from the local through to global feminist movements.
Full Lecture:
You can read the full transcript of Tamsin’s lecture by clicking on the link below
Lecture: Rural Rajasthan to Urban Khartoum (word file)
Alternatively the video links that follow provide some recordings from the lecture.
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4