title: "You Are a Part of the Solution": Negotiating Gender-Based Violence and Engendering Change in Urban Informal Settlements in Mumbai, India.
abstract: This article explores how women front-line workers engage with domestic and gender-based violence in the urban informal settlements of Dharavi in Mumbai, India. We conducted in-depth interviews with 13 voluntary front-line workers, along with ethnographic fieldwork in Dharavi, as a part of a pilot study. Our findings contribute to literature on context-specific approaches to understanding gender-based violence and "models" to prevent domestic violence in urban micro-spaces. Furthermore, we also discuss notions of "change" ( badlaav) that the front-line workers experience. Finally, this article presents implications for socially engaged ethnographic research, as well as contextual and grounded insights on ways to reduce gender-based and domestic violence.
authors: 1 Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium.|2 Independent Researcher, Mumbai, India.
authors: Proshant
authors: P
authors: Chakraborty
authors: 3 Society for Nutrition, Education and Health Action, Mumbai, India.
authors: Nayreen
authors: N
authors: Daruwalla
authors: 3 Society for Nutrition, Education and Health Action, Mumbai, India.
authors: Anuja
authors: A
authors: Jayaraman
authors: 3 Society for Nutrition, Education and Health Action, Mumbai, India.
authors: Shanti
authors: S
authors: Pantvaidya
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D019513:Feminism; D000074386:Gender-Based Violence / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D008393:Marriage / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D017008:Negotiating / Q000379:methods*; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011204:Poverty Areas; D036301:Qualitative Research; D012111:Residence Characteristics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014505:Urban Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data
keywords: Dharavi; domestic violence; gender-based violence; negotiation and change; urban informal settlements; women front-line workers