Citation

Chakraborty P, Daruwalla N, Jayaraman A, Pantvaidya S. Violence Against Women 2017; 23(11): 1336-1360.

Affiliation

Society for Nutrition, Education and Health Action, Mumbai, India.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1077801216659941

PMID

27492927

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.

© The Author(s) 2016.

Language: en