The immobilities of gender-based violence in the Covid-19 pandemic

2019冠状病毒病危机的一个特别令人担忧的后果是据报道家庭虐待激增。这一跨学科项目旨在了解家庭暴力与基于性别的暴力（GBV）和不动性的关系，以便产生可以转化为政策的见解。它通过创作和分析个人故事来实现这一目标，这些故事详细描述了2019冠状病毒病危机不同阶段英国各地的性别暴力经历。2019冠状病毒病封锁令人们关注家庭暴力及其与行动受限的关系。在性别暴力的框架内理解家庭暴力，使我们能够审视被重新配置的多个暴力现场。至关重要的是，我们在这些重新定义的空间中理解和审议GBV，以便在当前危机内外激励对家庭虐待和其他GBV的政策反应。这项研究是通过分析与不动性复杂的相互依存关系有关的性别暴力的故事和不为人知的故事来进行的。该项目调查了在2019冠状病毒病大流行的背景下，非移动性/移动性如何促成性别暴力，包括感觉到的和经历到的，以及具体化的体验如何位于移动的空间-内部、外部和在线。该项目将对现有故事的分析（已经在公共领域）与在创意写作咖啡馆支持下的有指导的原创生活写作相结合，以开发一种自我民族志形式，重视对大流行病不同阶段性别暴力经历的叙述，并揭示不平等现象。这些故事将作为关键研究的一部分，通过学术产出以及与政策制定者和专业人士的在线对话得到重视，以期提出切实的政策建议。

One particularly concerning consequence of the Covid-19 crisis is the reported surge in domesticabuse. This transdisciplinary project seeks to produce understandings of domestic violence inrelation to gender-based violence (GBV) and immobilities in order to produce insights that can beconverted to policy. It does so through the creation and analysis of personal stories detailingexperiences of GBV across the UK at different stages in the Covid-19 crisis. The Covid-19 lockdownhas focused attention on domestic violence and its relationship to constrained mobilities.Understanding domestic abuse within the frame of GBV allows us to look across the multiple sitesof felt violence that have been reconfigured. It is critical that we understand and deliberate GBV inthese redefined spaces in order to invigorate policy responses to domestic abuse and other GBVwithin the current crisis and beyond. This research does so through the analysis of told and untoldstories of GBV in relation to the complex interdependencies of immobilities. The projectinvestigates how im/mobilities precipitate gendered violence, both felt and experienced and howembodied experiences become situated in mobile spaces - inside, outside and online - in thecontext of the Covid-19 pandemic. The project combines analysis of existing stories (in the publicdomain already) with directed original life writing, supported in creative writing cafes, to develop aform of autoethnography that values narrative accounts of experiences of GBV at different stagesof the pandemic and reveals inequalities. These stories will be valued as part of the criticalresearch through academic outputs as well underpinning online conversations with policymakersand professionals with a view to producing tangible policy recommendations.