Prof. Tamsin Bradley Inaugural Lecture 4/4
Channel: International Development UoP
Date: 03/10/2018

"From Rural Rajasthan to Urban Khartoum: Women’s Stories of Violence"

Inaugural lecture by Tamsin Bradley, Professor of International Development Studies, University of Portsmouth

In this lecture Professor Tamsin Bradley explores how women in different parts of the world experience and respond to violence. Specifically it will reflect on how, even in the most challenging of circumstances, women use agency to challenge and build what resilience they can. Violence against women and girls is a global epidemic. Resilience to the constant presence of violence in everyday life for many women comes through strong peer networks and role models. This lecture will offer stories and reflections from a number of powerful change agents whose determination to see an end to violence against women has brought greater understanding into how and why it persists. They have also demonstrated what can be achieved if agency is nurtured and supported at all levels from the local through to global feminist movements.