Good afternoon. First of all, I would like to thank Bodleian Libraries for the opportunity to participate in the seminar.
I represent part of my PTSD, of my ongoing PHC research conducted at State University of Georgia, NATO and Brazil, supervised by professor,
and that I hasten advice with financial support from catfish called from body is territory to feminicide,
snapping practises discourses and mapping languages.
The Latin American feminist cartographer's. First of all, we've been calling legman, American feminist cartographer's,
a broad set of middle dialogical strategies and theoretical constructions undertaken in recent years,
especially by autonomous collectives and woman members from Mexico, Ecuador, Ottoway and Argentina.
Based on exploratory research, we have systematised into two main axis, deeply articulated one,
the cartography of family sites and to cartography of the body is term to me.
My research main goal is to identify, systematise and analyse the practises, discourses and mapping languages used by these feminist cartographers.
For this research, which under understand feminism and cartography as academic fields and as political fields and permanent dispute,
we uses theoretical in its ideological basis the critical studies on cartography,
in dialogue with the colonial perspective, the contributions of intersectional feminist geographies and colonial feminism,
and a feminist methodology in agreement with hardly.
We consider maps as deep texts,
cultural artefacts and socially constructed discourses inserted in an asymmetric relations of power and knowledge as such.
Photography creates invisibility is geographical imaginary areas, and it's a monicker ways of reading the world and thinking about space.
However, as a field in dispute, photography has been appropriated by other agents whose practises not only expose
it to Monaco character in the construction of representations about the world,
but also create new narrative and representations about reality.
And dialogue with Feminist Geography's.
We understand that issues concerning women's lives were excluded from cartography, denying female body suspects.
They show experiences and limiting geographical imaginations about space.
In this sense, to dialogue with colonial feminism also seems fundamental.
Explaining the relationship. The relations have chips between Kolon on reality and women's bodies.
Submission to colonial feminism. Consider the body the first place where power penetrates through a historical process in
which female but a submission was associated with or full control of the territories.
At the same time, when considering the body as a space, as a space for politics, which is never monolithic.
But is that grasped by conflicts, it considers the body as the first place from rich.
Resistance is offered a result.
The resumption of the body as a political sphere is directly related to this new cultural graphic production construction,
with the idea of an abstract map and subject, an embodied situated subject that produces maps opposed to the interests of objectivity and neutrality,
represent contextualised and embodied knowledge productions. In this sense,
the research will be viewed based on a feminist methodology that also situates the researcher and recognised
woman mappers as agents of knowledge production from their specific political practises and contexts.
Following now, I'm going to show you some examples of cartography of family size I've been researching.
So now my girl is a Mexican artist, Horne, since 2000, 14 maps the places where the bodies of women victims are family sites have been found.
In her words, it's a matter of indicating the territories of death, which for the authorities remain invisible.
The map is produced by her on the Google Maps flat platform,
identifying family sites in Mexico State from the records made through newspaper and other data generated by families collecting.
This is the mapping of feminine science in Nicolau, produced by the Colectivo that feel of it,
if you put it together Liquorland throughout 2016 and 2017.
From the joint work with our feminist collectives inspired by Sanghamitra beguiles work for the mapping out feminicide.
A survey was done in official sources such as hotlines and public prosecutor's office.
Given the deficiencies in official data I saw was started in newspapers and previous monitoring carried out by other feminist collectives.
A series of automatic maps were produced and published from which we had the Cintas Centre's map indicating pheromone sites between 2014 and 2016.
Like other maps from the collective of the serious cartography so as not to forget,
the map has a specific design aimed at drawing the public's attention.
Also bringing text with complimentary information that help in the construction of a console.
It's a monarch narrative consignment concerning gender based violence, emphasising the state's core responsibility for crimes of feminicide.
Part of the strategies of diffusion and incidents in public opinion and governments fears as part of this strategies.
The map was printed in large size and took part in a performance organised by different feminist collectives in 2016,
along with the performance manifest from critical geography against women.
Violence was addressed to the National Congress. The mapping work was also extended to training workshops with journalists affected
into Germanic discourse around gender based violence that occupies the media.
Now, present to cartographer's after badass territory, which has been developed mainly by the collective middle of the street because the story
of this feminisms and has been replicated by other feminist collectives in the region.
It's a body mapping methodology developed by the collective and me gathers because a collective formed by women and men from Ecuador, Mexico,
Spain, Brazil and would require based on feminist cartographer's, feminist liberation theologist and comany, community and colonial feminism.
The body is territory mapping methodology. It was created from the experience of feminist activists with communities
affected by extractive projects in Ecuador and other Latin American contexts.
They realised the control of the territories was also transferred to the control of female bodies inspired by the methodology of social cartography.
The mapping consists of exploring the body as territory in both the subjective and the political sense of the term,
relating the bodies to their symmetric relations of power and to disputes over
the over the appropriation of the space in which these bodies are inscribed.
The dynamic starts over sensorial, exercising, reconnecting with the body in sequence.
There is the mapping of the body of each one. Considering the health and disease conditions, the affection, the memories, the scars of violence,
the multiple aggressions that cross the body in a contest of violation of the ten terms.
The dynamics are fundamentally based on experiences and memories, both collective and individual.
And on the borders,
recovery as an essential category to rethink depression suffered and the knowledge and sense is lost in a patriarchal gender structure.
The collective memory down Street just published a guide for mapping the barriers to return, which I invite you to explore.
Even though it's appeared to do research at an early stage, I would like to make some initial insights.
By placing women's bodies on maps, a traditional instrument of patriarchal geography of control over female bodies, hence space this remote.
Just one man mappers to Germanic, understand enough cartography and highlight this existence and the violence suffered by Subjects',
who until then had been marginalised by the state and to discipline cryptography itself, including some counterman, have been practised.
Therefore,
this cartographer's represents a rupture of silence and the erasures related to the place of women and and the feminine in maps and mapping.
They used different supports from traditional cartography, virtual resources and unconventional mapping methods.
Playing with the rules according to their convenience, possibilities and objectives, objectives to be achieved.
Weather related to visibility, denunciation, community communities strengthening and firm relation of public policies are impact on legislation.
The maps appears here as ambivalent Tools criticises for the unequivocal consulship
association of the Maintainance of colonial and patriarchal relations of power.
But at the same time appropriated for process of resistance. Also, feminist mappers develop a sophisticated concept to our reflection,
associating violations of the female vote territory to feminicide understood as the culmination of the same structural gender violence.
It's also worth noting the strong association with artistic, aesthetic and performative dynamics in the production and dissemination of maps,
revisiting the artistic dimension removed from cartography in the name of scientific objectivity.
Still, in this sense, they're growing the body, emotions, affectivity and memories to the centre of the culture,
graphic debate, dementia's, deep disquiet disqualified by.
By Mother Colonia, cartographic host,
cartographic convention historically excluded other repertoire of narratives and spatial experience that did not fit into rational and.
Besides, they allow that intertwining of narratives of personal and collective memories, highlighting the social character, awful personal memory.
There's maps also makes sense in the dispute for the deconstruction of the Germanic
narratives and subjectivities with the public space as the centre of its diffusion,
seeking to influence the formation of a new social imaginary which behaves andinet denaturalised as violence against female bodies.
For this reason, not only the map itself is valid as a final product, but mainly its production process.
The process of producing maps through collectives also function as a symbolic process of constituting
themselves as a political subject and as an element of political action and mobilisation.
Also, networks and collective data production are fundamental to compensate for official status in insufficiency on gender based violence.
This situation has been also denounced by researchers. We investigate domestic violence and racism in human space.
Finally, although women in the members operate outside the state and despite and against the state, they also have strategies to fight with the state.
On one hand, they denounced the state for its negligence and core responsibility for crimes against women's lives.
On the other hand, they talked. They tried to influence legislation and public policies through the mapping processes.
In conclusion, the feminist cartographers make it possible to expand our way of conceiving cartography concerning its actors,
languages, processes, strategies and uses both with this.
They also influence our way of conceiving space in the terms proposed by massing as the possibility of great system of multiplicity.
It remains to be seen the scope of these cartographic in a context in which what is at stake is not only the control of territory and bodies,
but our special notion spatial notions,
limited and natural allies through widely disseminated technique of quanta graphics systems increasingly control.
Thank you very much. Thank you, Manuela.
Absolutely terrific stuff. So.
I have a question for you. My question is, how have women been able to influence policy makers with their mops?
I so as you could see, I'm not really fluent in English, so I tried to answer you the best way I can.
Well, I think in and in one way, by and by diffusing this this data that is not publicised by by the state and also by bringing new new information,
because the state that official data is unsure. They are not.
They are incomplete, actually.
So when the feminist collectives, when they work together, they they produce new data about family size and about all gender based violence.
So in this way, by bringing new information, by diffusing them in for the public, it was remarkable,
for example, that in the quarter when they produced this feminicide map, people printed the map.
A lot of women printed a map and brought it to to a demonstration and in district against feminicide.
So it was remarkable how this map, the map language had to say.
Have more impact. As if it were just a graphic, for example.
And that was also a concern for the collective, for the collective.
If you've got a fear because they or I could say we we insisted in the in the design of the map not only to bring to put the information in the map,
but also the design of the map.
And also, I think by proposing or like we did with the manifest against violence, gender violence, by proposing new forms of.
No firms two of managing this, there's this violence by denouncing and also by proposing.
Thank you. That's a really good answer.