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Driven out: women’s employment, the transport sector and social reproduction in Grand Tunis (2023)
Journal Article
Murphy, E. C., Han, S., Keskes, H., & Porter, G. (2024). Driven out: women’s employment, the transport sector and social reproduction in Grand Tunis. Journal of Gender Studies, 33(3), 341-356. https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2023.2258075

Employment in the transport sector has historically proven to be male-dominated, even in countries like Tunisia which have evidenced public policy narratives and legal employment frameworks promoting gender equality. This paper presented the findings... Read More about Driven out: women’s employment, the transport sector and social reproduction in Grand Tunis.

The lived experiences of women workers in Africa's transport sector: Reflections from Abuja, Cape Town and Tunis (2023)
Journal Article
Porter, G., Murphy, E., Adamu, F., Dayil, P. B., Han, S., Dungey, C., …Ambrosini, S. (2023). The lived experiences of women workers in Africa's transport sector: Reflections from Abuja, Cape Town and Tunis. Journal of Transport Geography, 112, Article 103695. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2023.103695

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

‘No place for a woman’: Access, exclusion, insecurity and the mobility regime in grand tunis (2023)
Journal Article
Murphy, E. C., Porter, G., Aouidet, H., Dungey, C., Han, S., Houiji, R., Jlassi, M., Keskes, H., Mansour, H., Nasser, W., Riahi, H., Riahi, S., & Zaghoud, H. (2023). ‘No place for a woman’: Access, exclusion, insecurity and the mobility regime in grand tunis. Geoforum, 142, Article 103753. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103753

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 situat... Read More about ‘No place for a woman’: Access, exclusion, insecurity and the mobility regime in grand tunis.

Everyday mobility practices and the ethics of care: young women's reflections on social responsibility in the time of COVID-19 in three African cities (2022)
Journal Article
Porter, G., Murphy, E. C., Adamu, F., Delannoy, A., & Dungey, C. (2023). Everyday mobility practices and the ethics of care: young women's reflections on social responsibility in the time of COVID-19 in three African cities. Mobilities, 18(1), 21-36. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2022.2039561

This paper draws principally from COVID-19 diaries written by young women whom we had previously trained as peer researchers in a mobility study of low-income neighbourhoods in Abuja, Cape Town and Tunis. Some live with parents or older extended fami... Read More about Everyday mobility practices and the ethics of care: young women's reflections on social responsibility in the time of COVID-19 in three African cities.

Improving young women’s access to safe mobility in a low-income area of Tunis: Challenges and opportunities pre- and post-Covid (2022)
Journal Article
Porter, G., Murphy, E., Han, S., Mansour, H., Keskes, H., Dungey, C., Clark, S., & der Weijde, K. V. (2022). Improving young women’s access to safe mobility in a low-income area of Tunis: Challenges and opportunities pre- and post-Covid. Transportation Research Procedia, 60, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trpro.2021.12.035

This paper explores the everyday transport and mobility challenges faced by young women living in one poor peripheral neighborhood of a North African city, Tunis. Discussion spans a two-year period covering conditions prior to and within the COVID-19... Read More about Improving young women’s access to safe mobility in a low-income area of Tunis: Challenges and opportunities pre- and post-Covid.

Women's mobility and transport in the peripheries of three African cities: Reflecting on early impacts of COVID-19 (2021)
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Porter, G., Murphy, E., Adamu, F., Dayil, P., De Lannoy, A., Han, S., Mansour, H., Dungey, C., Ahmad, H., Maskiti, B., S, C., & Van der Weidje, K. (2021). Women's mobility and transport in the peripheries of three African cities: Reflecting on early impacts of COVID-19. Transport Policy, 110, 181-190. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2021.05.025

This paper reflects on the mobility experiences of women in African cities in COVID-19, based on research conducted both prior to and following entry into the COVID-19 ‘moment’. It draws on material collected during an ongoing action research study a... Read More about Women's mobility and transport in the peripheries of three African cities: Reflecting on early impacts of COVID-19.