The GendV Project

05/05/2023

We are hosting two very exciting events next week in Cambridge, and we would love for you to join us!

Join us in Cambridge at 5pm Thurs 11 May for the The GendV Project keynote address by Professor Sylvia Walby OBE, Royal Holloway. Further details and registration here: https://lnkd.in/en22aNKr

Join us in Cambridge 9am - 5pm on Friday 12 May for Urban Transformation and Gendered Violence in India and South Africa: The GendV Project Conference. Further details and registration here: https://lnkd.in/e54eCdjc

Please join us for The GendV Project Conference: Urban Transformation and Gendered Violence in India and South Africa

13/04/2022

Willing to Share | Pain is Love. An exhibition held at University of Johannesburg by our wonderful Artist-in-Residence, Philiswa Lila, in February 2022.
Here Philiswa shared her reflections on gendered violence through her artwork, and engaged with University students about their feelings and experience of gendered violence in Joburg. Read more via the link in our bio 📖
📸 All images by

25/01/2022

Do you live in ? If so, would like to hear from you. You can share your story anonymously on www.womensgurgaon.com ✨🏙

13/10/2021

⭐️PANEL EVENT⭐️ we are hosting a two-part online panel event, presenting field reflections on gendered violence and urban transformations from South Africa and India.
Our team of researchers will present some initial ideas, reflections and insights for critical engagement with respondents and audience members.
We welcome you to join both panels! Link for registration in our bio, or via www.eventbrite.co.uk

15/09/2021

⭐️ We have a fantastic online event coming up this Friday with Graça Machel and Devaki Jain ⭐️
Registration is still open if you would like to join - link in our bio!

13/09/2021

We are so excited to announce our upcoming webinar this Friday 17th September at 10am BST: 'Intergenerational Feminist Reflections with Graça Machel and Devaki Jain'. The two feminist stalwarts will reflect on a transforming South Africa and the many contributions of the women’s movements from the Global South to this process. The speakers will be in conversation with two younger feminists to think about the intergenerational gains South Africa and the Global South have made around gender justice and the many challenges that remain.

You can register for the event here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/intergenerational-feminist-reflections-with-graca-machel-and-devaki-jain-tickets-171048429457

Intergenerational Feminist Reflections with Graça Machel and Devaki Jain

06/07/2021

WILLING TO SHARE & PAIN IS LOVE
We invite you to explore these online exhibitions by our Artist-in-Residence Philiswa Lila: Willing to Share and Pain is Love. These exhibitions are part of the creative platform for story sharing and community engagement in Johannesburg. The exhibition speaks to themes of gender, violence, family structures, emotion and story sharing, and we invite you to share with us your thoughts and impressions.
You can access the exhibition on www.mylifeourstories.co.za or by scanning the image barcode 📖🎨

01/07/2021

Live now - When behaviour change is not enough: geographies of violence
https://www.facebook.com/UJLibrary/videos/209194970964237/

01/07/2021

🌟Join us today at 13:30 CAT for the first of a three-part webinar series on Gendered Violence in South Africa.
Our project Impact Consultant Lisa Vetten will speak to community workers and organisations from Delft, Lusikisiki, Diepsloot and Umlazi to reflect on their respective communities’ similarities and differences.
This is a joint venture between The GendV Project (University of Cambridge and University of Johannesburg), the Gender, Health and Justice Research Unit at University of Cape Town, and the Masiphephe Network.

22/06/2021

Our Artist-in-Residence, Philiswa Lila, presents her exhibition: Skin, Bone, Fire: The First Album, at the Durban Art Gallery until the 25 July 🎨
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18/02/2021

Prof. Sanjay Srivastava: The burning of Thunberg's images as symbolic warnings of possible fate that awaits women seen as 'too independent'.
https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/disha-ravi-arrest-toolkit-women-activist-7191617/

If the sight of a group of men torching images and effigies of a young woman does not make our stomachs churn, then, perhaps, we have become completely habituated to the idea of violence against women and past efforts to address the issues have been in vain.

13/01/2021

We are very happy to announce that our first public event will take place via Zoom on Friday 22nd January 2021 at 1:00pm GMT. We will be joined by Prof Pumla Dineo Gqola from Nelson Mandela University and Prof Srimati Basu from the University of Kentucky, in conversation on Urban Transformation and Gendered Violence in India and South Africa. Everyone is welcome! PLEASE REGISTER HERE: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pumla-gqola-and-srimati-basu-on-gendered-violence-in-india-and-south-africa-tickets-132047817577 ✍️⭐️

For those of you new to the project, we are an ESRC-funded research project based in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge. Led by Dr Manali Desai, The GendV Project aims to explore the many urban transformations and changing gender relations in Gurgaon and Delhi, India, and Johannesburg, South Africa. For more information about the project and the event, please visit: https://www.thegendvproject.sociology.cam.ac.uk/ We hope to see you there! 😊

The GendV Project is joined by Prof Gqola and Prof Basu, in conversation on Gendered Violence in India and South Africa.

13/01/2021

We are very happy to announce that our first public event will take place via Zoom on Friday 22nd January 2021 at 1:00pm GMT. We will be joined by Prof Pumla Dineo Gqola from Nelson Mandela University and Prof Srimati Basu from the University of Kentucky, in conversation on Urban Transformation and Gendered Violence in India and South Africa. Everyone is welcome to attend the event! PLEASE REGISTER HERE: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pumla-gqola-and-srimati-basu-on-gendered-violence-in-india-and-south-africa-tickets-132047817577 ✍️⭐️

For those of you new to the project, we are an ESRC-funded research project, based in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge. Led by PI Dr Manali Desai, the project aims to explore the many urban transformations and changing gender relations in Gurgaon and Delhi, India, and Johannesburg, South Africa. For more information about the project and the event please visit www.thegendvproject.sociology.cam.ac.uk. We hope to see you there! 😊

15/12/2020

At November's Study Group on Urban Space, we spoke to Prof. Asher Ghertner on public women, private domesticity and the home. You can watch a short clip from the discussion here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xZ50gtbmDo&t=1s

The GendV Project in discussion with Professor Asher Ghertner on public women, private domesticity and the home. Part of The GendV Project Reading Group at t...

02/09/2020

Watch The GendV Project's Sanjay Srivastava discuss his article: Sexuality, Masculinity, the City and ‘Indian Traditions’ in the Contemporary Hindi ‘Detective’ Novel: https://thegendvproject.sociology.cam.ac.uk/…/gendv-project…
Image: Sanjay Srivastava by Taylor & Francis on Vimeo

14/07/2020

Hey new followers 👋 we will be keeping our social media updated as the project progresses, with webinars and podcasts, research and thoughts.

Keep an eye out for our Twitter and Instagram! All handles

14/07/2020

What is The GendV Project?

“The vision of this project is to develop a blueprint for a new generation of scholarship on gendered violence, specifically in this case public and private sexual violence.”

We aim to explore the many urban transformations and changing gender relations in Gurgaon and Delhi, India and Johannesburg, South Africa.

The project started in January 2020 and is funded by the ESRC. We are based in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge.

You can read more about the project at www.thegendvproject.sociology.cam.ac.uk

11/06/2020

11/06/2020

In our latest blog post, The GendV Project's Lisa Vetten and Shannon Philip contribute some recommendations to South Africa's Domestic Violence Amendment Bill, 2020: https://www.thegendvproject.sociology.cam.ac.uk/rethinking-domestic-violence-laws-south-africa

tingey-injury-law-firm-ycdpu73kgsc-unsplash.jpg The GendV Project’s Lisa Vetten has recently contributed some recommendations to South Africa’s Domestic Violence Amendment Bill, 2020.

27/05/2020

Read our latest blog post, 'Global Crisis and Gendered Lives': https://www.thegendvproject.sociology.cam.ac.uk/blog/global-crisis-and-gendered-lives-0

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.

14/04/2020