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An ethnography of women’s working spaces in the night time: gender violence and the right to the night
| Resumo: | This dissertation explores the spatial dimension of gender-based violence for the workers of the nightlife in the city of Lisbon. It is based on an ethnographic study conducted over the course of the years 2023-2024. Through direct observation, participation, interviews and informal conversations, the study collects the experiences of women and gender minorities working as bartenders, waitresses and managers in festive nocturnal spaces such as bars, clubs, restaurants and cultural spaces. The results of this study highlight the exposure of the workers to a continuum of violence, encompassing repeated forms of slow violence (jokes, comments, intimidation) as well as aberrant acts (sexual assault, physical violence, harassment). The dissertation explores how the pervasiveness of violence, mostly gender based but also racist and homophobic, impacts the workers relationship with their workspaces. It reveals the particular spatial strategies and alliances formed between them to discreetly manage their safety while working. Moreover, it analyses these strategies in the light of the right to the city and offers a discussion around the concept of the right to the night, arguing that the strategies employed by the workers in the nightlife venues are materializing their claim for their right to the night. Ultimately, the dissertation uncovers the limits of the right to the night for women working in nightlife venues, and proposes a shift of the discussion to another field, which analyses the materialization of the right to the night in a techno collective organizing rave parties in Lisbon, and studies the volunteers’ experiment with policy-making and the creation of an Awareness Team within the collective. |
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| Autores principais: | Galavielle, Juliette Marion Philippine |
| Assunto: | Geographies of the night Gender-based violence Nightlife Night work Right to the night |
| Ano: | 2025 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | dissertação de mestrado |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade de Lisboa |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa |
| Resumo: | This dissertation explores the spatial dimension of gender-based violence for the workers of the nightlife in the city of Lisbon. It is based on an ethnographic study conducted over the course of the years 2023-2024. Through direct observation, participation, interviews and informal conversations, the study collects the experiences of women and gender minorities working as bartenders, waitresses and managers in festive nocturnal spaces such as bars, clubs, restaurants and cultural spaces. The results of this study highlight the exposure of the workers to a continuum of violence, encompassing repeated forms of slow violence (jokes, comments, intimidation) as well as aberrant acts (sexual assault, physical violence, harassment). The dissertation explores how the pervasiveness of violence, mostly gender based but also racist and homophobic, impacts the workers relationship with their workspaces. It reveals the particular spatial strategies and alliances formed between them to discreetly manage their safety while working. Moreover, it analyses these strategies in the light of the right to the city and offers a discussion around the concept of the right to the night, arguing that the strategies employed by the workers in the nightlife venues are materializing their claim for their right to the night. Ultimately, the dissertation uncovers the limits of the right to the night for women working in nightlife venues, and proposes a shift of the discussion to another field, which analyses the materialization of the right to the night in a techno collective organizing rave parties in Lisbon, and studies the volunteers’ experiment with policy-making and the creation of an Awareness Team within the collective. |
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