TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2017//
TI  - "You are a part of the solution": negotiating gender-based violence and engendering change in urban informal settlements in Mumbai, India
JO  - Violence against women
A1  - Chakraborty, Proshant
A1  - Daruwalla, Nayreen
A1  - Jayaraman, Anuja
A1  - Pantvaidya, Shanti
SP  - 1336
EP  - 1360
VL  - 23
IS  - 11
N2  - 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.<br><br>© The Author(s) 2016.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1077-8012
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077801216659941
ID  - ref1
ER  -