14 ‘It’s Not Your Fault’: Place, Promises to the Future and Honouring the Memory of Eurydice Dixon
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Claire Loughnan
Abstract
The 2018 sexual assault and murder of Eurydice Dixon, during her walk home on a winter’s evening in Melbourne, Australia, led to the spontaneous emergence of a temporary yet beautiful memorial on the site in the public park where she was attacked. Much of the public discussion that followed her death focused on the persistent risk experienced by women in public spaces, in which neither their bodies nor the spaces they move through, are experienced as their own. However, in examining the memorialization of Eurydice’s death, I show how this site also held the potential to emerge as an alternative site of justice. I explore messages of sorrow, and pledges left by those who visited the site, to suggest how such sites of mourning might offer the promise of a future justice for all those subjected to violence.
Abstract
The 2018 sexual assault and murder of Eurydice Dixon, during her walk home on a winter’s evening in Melbourne, Australia, led to the spontaneous emergence of a temporary yet beautiful memorial on the site in the public park where she was attacked. Much of the public discussion that followed her death focused on the persistent risk experienced by women in public spaces, in which neither their bodies nor the spaces they move through, are experienced as their own. However, in examining the memorialization of Eurydice’s death, I show how this site also held the potential to emerge as an alternative site of justice. I explore messages of sorrow, and pledges left by those who visited the site, to suggest how such sites of mourning might offer the promise of a future justice for all those subjected to violence.
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- List of Figures, Tables and Boxes v
- List of Abbreviations vi
- Notes on Contributors vii
- Acknowledgements xiii
- Introduction 1
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Gender-Based Violence in Urban and Community Spaces
- Gender-Based Violence and Urban Spaces: From Security to Self-Determination – Insights from the Italian Debate 21
- ‘Everywhere’ or ‘Over There’? Managing and Spatializing the Perceived Risks of Gender-Based Violence on a Girls’ Night Out 36
- Internal Homelessness and Hiraeth: Boys’ Spatial Journeys Between Childhood Domestic Abuse and On-Road 50
- Using Community Asset Mapping to Understand Neighbourhood-Level Variation in the Predictors of Domestic Abuse 63
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Gender-Based Violence in ‘Local-Level’ and Transitionary Spaces, from Public Transport to Rural and Digital Spaces
- Sexual Violence on Public Transport: Applying the Whole-Journey Approach to Assess Women Students’ Victimization in Paris and the Île-de-France Region 85
- Woman Abuse in Rural Places: Towards a Spatial Understanding 102
- Algorithmic Bias in Digital Space: Twitter’s Complicity in Gender-Based Violence 119
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Transnational and Political Spaces
- Not the Wild West: Femonationalism, Gendered Security Regimes and Brexit 135
- Transnational Regimes of Family Violence: When Violence Against Women Crosses Borders 150
- Between NGO-ization and Militarization: Women’s Rights in the Fragile Geographies of Niger 165
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Institutional Spaces
- Neither Seen Nor Heard: State-Sanctioned Violence Against Women Prisoners in Australia 183
- ‘There Is Always a Reason for the Beatings’: Interrogating the Reproduction of Gender-Based Violence Within Private and Public Spaces 200
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Space, Place and ‘Justice’
- Adaptations to Sexual Violence: Reduced Access to Opportunity Structures by Women Victimized by Sexual Abuse and Harassment 215
- ‘It’s Not Your Fault’: Place, Promises to the Future and Honouring the Memory of Eurydice Dixon 231
- Resisting Violence Through the Arts: Theatre and Poetry as Spaces for Speaking Out and Seeking Change 250
- Index 264
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- List of Figures, Tables and Boxes v
- List of Abbreviations vi
- Notes on Contributors vii
- Acknowledgements xiii
- Introduction 1
-
Gender-Based Violence in Urban and Community Spaces
- Gender-Based Violence and Urban Spaces: From Security to Self-Determination – Insights from the Italian Debate 21
- ‘Everywhere’ or ‘Over There’? Managing and Spatializing the Perceived Risks of Gender-Based Violence on a Girls’ Night Out 36
- Internal Homelessness and Hiraeth: Boys’ Spatial Journeys Between Childhood Domestic Abuse and On-Road 50
- Using Community Asset Mapping to Understand Neighbourhood-Level Variation in the Predictors of Domestic Abuse 63
-
Gender-Based Violence in ‘Local-Level’ and Transitionary Spaces, from Public Transport to Rural and Digital Spaces
- Sexual Violence on Public Transport: Applying the Whole-Journey Approach to Assess Women Students’ Victimization in Paris and the Île-de-France Region 85
- Woman Abuse in Rural Places: Towards a Spatial Understanding 102
- Algorithmic Bias in Digital Space: Twitter’s Complicity in Gender-Based Violence 119
-
Transnational and Political Spaces
- Not the Wild West: Femonationalism, Gendered Security Regimes and Brexit 135
- Transnational Regimes of Family Violence: When Violence Against Women Crosses Borders 150
- Between NGO-ization and Militarization: Women’s Rights in the Fragile Geographies of Niger 165
-
Institutional Spaces
- Neither Seen Nor Heard: State-Sanctioned Violence Against Women Prisoners in Australia 183
- ‘There Is Always a Reason for the Beatings’: Interrogating the Reproduction of Gender-Based Violence Within Private and Public Spaces 200
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Space, Place and ‘Justice’
- Adaptations to Sexual Violence: Reduced Access to Opportunity Structures by Women Victimized by Sexual Abuse and Harassment 215
- ‘It’s Not Your Fault’: Place, Promises to the Future and Honouring the Memory of Eurydice Dixon 231
- Resisting Violence Through the Arts: Theatre and Poetry as Spaces for Speaking Out and Seeking Change 250
- Index 264
