Zones of Violence: Mediating Gender, Power, and Place
A special issue of Social Sciences (ISSN 2076-0760). This special issue belongs to the section "Gender Studies".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 May 2026 | Viewed by 76
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Gender-based violence is never confined to individual acts; it is spatial, political, and mediated. This Special Issue explores how violence against women and gender nonconforming folks is shaped by the geographies of consent, control, and abandonment. From private households where harm is silenced to public “zones of exception” where gendered bodies are criminalized, violence takes on multiple spatial logics. Media representations—from news coverage and documentaries to social media campaigns—mediate these spaces, amplifying some harms while rendering others invisible. Given this background, we invite contributions that interrogate how place, power, and representation intersect in the production of gender-based violence, as well as how survivors navigate, resist, and reconfigure these terrains. Submissions may draw from sociology, criminology, geography, media studies, gender and sexuality studies, law, and beyond.
Dr. Krista Mcqueeney
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- gender-based violence
- intersectionality
- spatial logics of violence
- private/public spheres
- victimhood narratives
- power and place
- media representation
- criminalization of gendered bodies
- abolitionist feminism
- state violence
- carceral feminism
- survivor resistance
- queer and trans experiences of violence
- anti-trafficking discourse
- moral panic
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