Aesthetics in Distress: Gender-Based Violence and Visual Culture. Introductory Note

Ece Canlı; Nicoletta Mandolini

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Ece Canlı Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4827-0857
Nicoletta Mandolini Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9137-9380

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Ece Canlı, Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal

Ece Canlı is an artist and Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia junior researcher within the cultural studies research cluster at the Communication and Society Research Centre at the University of Minho (Portugal). She is a PhD in design from the University of Porto (Portugal) and was a visiting researcher in the Empirica research group at Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture (Finland). Her work sits at the intersection of material regimes and body politics, specifically, socio-spatio-material constitutions of gender, sexuality, race and other identity categories. In her current project titled "Prison Heterosexual Complex", she investigates spatial, material and technological conditions of queer incarceration from the viewpoint of materiality — design, architecture and emergent technologies in particular. She was a lecturer in the sociology of gender master's programme at the University of Minho and the design programme at the Lusíada University of Porto. She has published in edited volumes released from SAGE, Bloomsbury and Spector Books and in journals such as Design&Culture and The Design Journal. She is a founding member of the research collective Decolonising Design Group.

Nicoletta Mandolini, Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal

Nicoletta Mandolini is a Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia junior researcher at the Communication and Society Research Centre at the University of Minho (Portugal), where she is working on the project Sketch Her Story and Make It Popular. Using Graphic Narratives in Italian and Lusophone Feminist Activism Against Gender Violence (https://www.sketchthatstory.com/). She worked as an FWO Postdoctoral Researcher at KU Leuven (Belgium) and holds a PhD from University College Cork (Ireland). She authored the monograph Representations of Lethal Gender-Based Violence in Italy Between Journalism and Literature: Femminicidio Narratives (Routledge, 2021). Among other articles on sexist abuse in contemporary literature and media, she co-edited the volume Rappresentare la Violenza di Genere. Sguardi Femministitra Critica, Attivismo e Scrittura (Mimesis, 2018). She is an active member of the Centre for Advanced Studies in Languages and Cultures research cluster on Violence, Conflict and Gender that she co-convened from 2016 until 2019. She is a founding member of Studying'n'Investigating Fumetti.

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