ABSTRACT
Gender-based violence and harassment (GBVH) occur in the everyday spaces of academia. This statement should be a truism, but as the chapters in the volume attest, it can still be risky to state that GBVH happens in academia, in everyday spaces, as a normal occurrence. The focus of the volume on ‘everyday spaces’ is a crucial intervention to move away from common sense assumptions and myths about where, how, and to whom GBVH in academia occur, and as Alexandria Petit-Thorne describes (in this volume), it is crucial to include ‘liminal academic spaces’ such as student organisations, labour unions, and social spaces within the understanding of ‘everyday spaces’. Chapters in this volume also reveal how GBVH intersects with violence and harassment on the basis of gender identity, ‘race’, sexuality, and disability, and is upheld by legacies of colonial violence. The book also serves as a reminder of the value of autoethnographic accounts such as those from Lieselotte Viaene, Catarina Laranjeiro et al., as well as Simona Palladino and Laura Thurman in this volume. Such accounts form their own genre, forming a lineage that includes Elizabeth Stanko (1995), Deborah Lee (2018), and Whitley and Page (2015), among others, in making visible the experiential level of how abuse occurs.
