Gina Porter

Women making a livelihood in the transport sector: challenges and opportunities in sub-Saharan Africa

Nyaboke Patricia Omwega, Gina Porter

Engaging citizens from low-income communities in transport planning: experiences from peer research studies conducted in three African cities

Gina Porter, Bradley Rink, Emma C. Murphy, Fatima Adamu et autres

This paper draws on experience from a series of transport-focused studies built round peer research with community members resident in low-income neighbourhoods at the periphery of three major cities: Abuja, Cape Town and Tunis. These were conducted firstly with young women aged …

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We studied the walking habits of young men in Cape Town and London – and debunked a myth

Bradley Rink, Gina Porter

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Interdisciplinary perspectives on the intersections of roads, sustainable development, and disaster resilience

Ellen B. Robson, Peter McGowran, Hanna A. Ruszczyk, Bruce D. Malamud et autres

Natural hazard-influenced disasters, sustainable development, and roads are closely intertwined. Governments and funding agencies worldwide are increasingly focused on delivering disaster-resilient road infrastructure. However, the multifaceted, ubiquitous, and contested nature of road networks means that making them resilient to disasters is a …

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A curated walk with peer researchers and their communities: Engaging a research journey toward meaningful impact

Bradley Rink, Gina Porter, Bulelani Maskiti, Sam Clark et autres

As a collective of peer researchers, scholars and members of a non-profit organisation, we have come together to share a curated walk through low-income communities in Cape Town and London. We do so with the intent of exploring the embodied and social …

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Young women's travel safety and the journey to work: Reflecting on lived experiences of precarious mobility in three African cities (and the potential for transformative action)

Gina Porter, Emma C. Murphy, Fatima Adamu, Plangsat Bitrus Dayil et autres

The relationship between women's everyday lived travel experiences as daily commuters and their employment history and potential has not been adequately researched and documented in African contexts. This multidisciplinary study, utilising an innovative action research methodology, compares experiences of young women (18-35y) …

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Young men's daily mobility needs and practices in two low-income neighbourhoods of Cape Town: Reflections on first mile experiences, using an innovative community peer research methodology

Gina Porter, Bradley Rink, Bulelani Maskiti, Samuel J. Clark et autres

Understanding how young men navigate their journeys is important in the context of improving safe mobility for all, especially for those resident in city neighbourhoods with high rates of crime and poverty. Over the past decade, knowledge has been accumulating regarding the …

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Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Intersections of Roads, Sustainable Development, and Disaster Resilience

Ellen B. Robson, Peter McGowran, Hanna A. Ruszczyk, Bruce D. Malamud et autres

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Driven out: women’s employment, the transport sector and social reproduction in Grand Tunis

Emma C. Murphy, Saerom Han, Hanen Keskes, Gina Porter

Employment in the transport sector has historically proven to be maledominated, even in countries like Tunisia which have evidenced public policy narratives and legal employment frameworks promoting gender equality.This paper presented the findings from a grounded research study examining women's employment experiences …

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The lived experiences of women workers in Africa's transport sector: Reflections from Abuja, Cape Town and Tunis

Gina Porter, Emma C. Murphy, Fatima Adamu, Plangsat Bitrus Dayil et autres

This paper draws on ethnographic research conducted 2019–2022 in three quite diverse city regions - Abuja, Cape Town and Tunis - to understand women's lived experiences of work in the road transport sector. The strength of connection between male identity and motor-mobility …

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‘No place for a woman’: Access, exclusion, insecurity and the mobility regime in grand tunis

Emma C. Murphy, Gina Porter, Hamida Aouidet, Claire Dungey et autres

Drawing on an innovative peer researcher method, this paper uses mobility diaries and in-transit interviews to examine the everyday travel experiences of women from socio-economically marginalised neighbourhoods in metropolitan Grand Tunis. It situates those experiences, and the practices they deploy to navigate …

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Peer research, power and ethics

Gina Porter, Claire Dungey, Maryam Abdullahi Akoshi, Patience Hannatu Bullus et autres

This paper reflects on the transformative potential of a peer research project that was concerned with women’s access to travel in low-income neighbourhoods in three African cities – Abuja, Cape Town and Tunis. For the young unemployed women who partnered in this …