Body Maps of Resistance: Understanding everyday resistance to violent extremism in Kenya

Body Maps of Resistance is collection of personal stories and body map paintings created by twenty participants from around the Kenyan coast during two body mapping workshops held in November 2019 in Mombasa. The body mapping workshops were organised as part of a study on Gender and Resistance to Violent Extremism in Kenya funded by a British Academy ‘Tackling UK International Challenges’ award. This book explores how men and women at the level of local communities perceive, experience, and resist violent extremism in their everyday lives. The book aims to give voice to silenced narratives on communities’ everyday resistance to violent extremism. The body maps and stories in this volume, reveal complex everyday struggles against violence, discrimination and marginalisation. The paintings and stories are personal narratives that offer a window into the lives of the participants in our study and should not be used to generalise about communities living on the coast in Kenya.