Vaudine England’s latest book, Fortune’s Bazaar – The Making of Hong Kong, has been described as the best biography of this Asian port city, thanks to its emphasis on Hong Kong’s intensely varied human history.

In this talk I explore the gendering of everyday urban spaces and the social production of gendered violence. Through ethnographic data collected by ‘hanging out’ with young Indian men in New Delhi, I reveal the ways in which their youth masculinities are constructed and performed, and how these in turn produce hostility, fear and violence for young women and girls accessing the same urban spaces.