Negotiating the Quicksand's of Gender Toward More Inclusive Families and Communities How do women “go missing” not just from police records but from our collective narratives? Can the idea of “family” as we know it hold space for women’s autonomy and independence? What happens when a town or locality is marked a “crime hub” and young men and women begin to be marked by it too? Can masculinities also marked by the spaces they are embedded in, soften, shift, include? For over four decades, Gamana Women’s Collective, in partnership with Society for Informal Education and Development Studies (SIEDS), has been part of the feminist struggle for justice — not only responding to gender-based violence but also unravelling the structural forces that sustain it. A few years ago, in collaboration with the Centre for Budget and Policy Studies (CBPS), and in partnership with several local organisations and institutions we undertook two action-research studies in Kolar and Anekal — two rapidly t...
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