ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an entry point to the gendered geographies of trauma. Trauma is a primary means by which violence continues to damage people and places. Focusing on gender-based violence (GBV), the chapter introduces key aspects of trauma as an individual and collective experience. It signals the importance of the socio-political spaces where trauma is located. An intersectional analysis views trauma as folded into wider systems of oppression, reflected in the contestation over its history, everyday experience and treatment. We draw on examples of multiple GBV in Bangladesh, domestic abuse in Malaysia and campus sexual assault in the UK.
