Essays about: "women in urban areas in india"

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1. 1. Determinants of Intimate Partner SexualViolence against Women in India

   University essay from Mittuniversitetet/Institutionen för hälsovetenskap

   Author : Madeleine Back; [2020]
   Keywords : gender-based violence; rural; socio-demographics; public health; sexual violence against women; urban;

   Abstract : Intimate partner sexual violence (IPSV) is a public health problem andprimarily affects women. Almost 30% of all women who have been in arelationship with a man, have experienced physical or sexual violence by theirpartner in their life. READ MORE

3. 2. I am still unlearning it : A qualitative study of how Indian journalists perceive their reality from a gender perspective

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för medier och journalistik (MJ)

   Author : Lisa Andreasson; Johanna Olsson Jönsson; [2016]
   Keywords : India; New Delhi; Bangalore; Media; Journalism; Newspapers; Agenda setting; Structuration theory; Performativity; Intersectionality; Equality; Giddens; Butler; Media ethnography; Qualitative interviews; Feminist media theory.;

   Abstract : India experienced huge media coverage from all over the world associated with the Nirbhaya-case in 2012, when a young middleclass girl was brutally raped in a bus by five men in Delhi. After this horrifying incident a lot of demonstrations followed all over India. READ MORE

4. 3. Nayapalli Pallavi : An Urban Village Development Project in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

   University essay from KTH/Arkitektur

   Author : Edith Humble; [2014]
   Keywords : Women; India; Odisha; Bhubaneswar; Community Centre; Launderette; Alcoholism; Social Sustainable; Urban development; Public Space; village; square; Kvinnor; Indien; Odisha; Bhubaneswar; Community center; tvätteri; alkoholism; socialt hållbar; stadsutveckling; offentliga rummet; torg; by;

   Abstract : With a grant from Sida I went to Odisha, to learn about women’s local conditions and try to find out how a building could somehow ameliorate it. Through Architects Sans Frontières I got in touch with Urban and Development Resource Centre, working with upgrading slum areas. READ MORE

5. 4. Gendered spaces : a socio-spatial study in the informal settlement Dharavi in Mumbai

   University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Sektionen för planering och mediedesign

   Author : Helena Ohlsson; [2013]
   Keywords : Slum; informal settlements; urban planning; use of space; gender; urban form; hierarchy of spaces; gender-sensitive urban design; India; Dharavi.;

   Abstract : This thesis explores the relation between built form and sociocultural relationships with Dharavi in Mumbai as a case. The study explores gender segregation and the relation between use of space and urban form and in what way the built structure and its functions influence the everyday life. READ MORE

6. 5. Influence of Urban Form on Co-presence in Public Space : A Space Syntax Analysis of Informal Settlements in Pune, India

   University essay from KTH/Urbana och regionala studier

   Author : Joel Hernbäck; [2012]
   Keywords : Urban form; space syntax; public space; informal settlements; slum; unplanned built environment; gender.;

   Abstract : This master thesis is intended as a contribution to the understanding of the influence urban form has on urban life and by extension social structures in society, by focusing on gender relations and their reflections on the use of public space. In addition, the aim of the study is to do so in relation to a comparison between two different types of urban environments; one slum area that can be regarded as formally unplanned with an irregular gradually grown street network and one slum area of more deliberately planned character with a more regular street grid. READ MORE