Talk

GeoBrujas / Geographical weavings: territorial expressions through narratives and corporealities

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Abstract

We will present the context in which we emerged as a community of women geographers, from the need to denounce oppressions and inequalities, as well as to reclaim denied territorialities. Through several examples, we will share how we have explored counter-cartography, and in particular feminist cartography in a multidisciplinary dialogue with artivism. These counter-hegemonic languages have allowed us to find anti-patriarchal narratives and alternative territorial expressions.

Bio

GeoBrujas - Comunidad de Geógrafas is a community of women geographers from Mexico that offers critical and counter-cartographic perspectives on bodies, territories, and landscapes in Latin America. The collective is designed to challenge and transform patriarchal production of geographical knowledges, understanding that cartography is a tool loaded with ideology, which their work aims to deconstruct, decentralize, and socialize at the collective and community level. With their work, GeoBrujas aims to generate spaces for reflection, practice, and critical analysis that can contribute to geographical thinking on different spatial scales; from the global to the local, from the home to the body-territory. Their work ranges from traditional academic publishing to highly praised interactive performances that seek to intervene in academic and advocacy realms, disrupting their divides, and offering new insights into dominant understandings of bodies, territory, and power.

The talk is part of the cross-disciplinary course Spatial Narration conducted with students and professors from the departments of Fine Art, Design and Choreography.