Component 3, Transnational Perspectives on VAWG: Research Process

HEALTHY, SECURE AND GENDER JUST CITIES: Transnational perspectives on Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) in Rio de Janeiro and London

LINK TO OVERALL INVESTIGATION ON TERRITORY, PERFORMANCE AND RESILIENCE: HERITAGE was a Co-investigator on a multi-scalar research project with Eliana Sousa SILVA, Cathy Mcllwaine (UK PI - KCL) and Miriam Krenzinger (Brazilian PI - UFRJ) to produce empirical data about VAWG amongst Brazilian migrants in London and women living in the Complexo da Maré as well as narrative studies through performance-related art practices. HERITAGE worked with Maré Development Networks and PI Mcllwaine to establish community-based methods of data collection in a territory subject to high levels of armed violence which was a prototype for the methodologies later used by HERITAGE and SILVA in Building the Barricades. For this Component, 800 domestic interviews were conducted across the 16 communities of Maré together with 20 semi-structured interviews. HERITAGE and Brazilian theatre director Bia Lessa worked with the qualitative data produced during the study to develop the performance installation – Scar - which revealed insights into the stories of resistance and survival in the bodies, voices and gestures of 20 women and was presented at Southbank Centre in London in 2018.

3.1.1. Report of research findings in London

Contextual Material (Physical Item)

PUBLICATION: Report of Research Findings in London - We Can't Fight in the Dark: Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) among Brazilians in London. McIlwaine, Cathy, Evans, Y. (2018). London: Queen Mary University of London/Kings College University of London. Publicly available from People’s Palace Projects website.

3.1.2. Report of research findings in Rio de Janeiro

Contextual Material (Physical Item)

PUBLICATION Report of Research Findings in Rio de Janeiro - Violence Against Women in Complexo da Maré, Rio de Janeiro. Krenzinger, M, Silva E, Morgado R, Garcia J, Martins G, Silva IS. (2018). Publicly available from People’s Palace Projects website.

3.1.3. Interviews with women from Maré who had experienced violence

Creative Practice Research Output (Physical Item). CONFIDENTIAL

English translations of the 20 semi-structured interviews with women from Maré who had experienced violence. Edited by HERITAGE and LESSA for the performance installation SCAR, which was presented at the Southbank Centre in London in 2018. This includes sensitive data.