Storying the Immobilities of Gender Violence in the UK and Mexico

Offers an arts-based, storying, textual and visual lens on gender-based violence in the UK and Mexico.
This book is a unique image-based bilingual (English and Spanish) book of textual and visual narratives of gender-based violence (GBV) in the UK and Mexico, framed with a critical commentary that sets these stories in the context of GBV in both countries.
Visual and textual stories convey the 'felt' experience of GBV, engaging readers and audiences in the apparently mundane as well as the shocking. Such stories help contest the prominence of crime statistics in evidencing GBV, statistics which often distort experience and reflect and maintain exclusionary policies and practices, particularly for minoritised communities.
The transnational project on which this book is based invited artists and creative writers from diverse backgrounds in the UK and Mexico to respond to lived accounts of GBV in comic stories, short stories, poems, 3D installations, fine art photography, painting and film. This book brings together these visual and textual stories and sets out a series of readings and analyses that seek to further knowledge on GBV in different cultural contexts.

This book is open access under a CC BY licence.

About the author

Lesley Murray is Professor of Spatial Sociology at the University of Brighton, UK. Her most recent book is Sensory Transformations: Environments, Technologies, Sensobiographies (Routledge 2023).

Product details

• Authors: Moriarty Jess, Murray Lesley, Olga Sabido Ramos, Paula Soto Villagrán
• Assisted by: Moriarty Jess (Editor), Murray Lesley (Editor), Olga Sabido Ramos (Editor), Paula Soto Villagrán (Editor)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English, Spanish
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 10.02.2026
• EAN: 9781788928540
• ISBN: 978-1-78892-854-0
• No. of pages: 191
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Mexico, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, Gender studies, gender groups, Violence in society, Violence and abuse in society