Contramapeo
Research
2020-on going
Collaborators:
Guy Emerson
Countermapping collectively maps gender violence — not through governmental logics that prioritize economic or tourist zones, but through women's lived experiences of unsafety in everyday transit spaces. While official maps document risk management and bodily control, our countermaps work in the opposite direction: the body is understood as a political entity whose experience shapes the territory, not the other way around.
Contramapeo is a project that collectively maps gender violence. Rather than mapping violence through governmental logics that favor high-value economic zones, tourist sites, or areas of economic activity, we seek to map experiences of violence in the areas where women do not feel safe — the transit spaces where learned survival strategies come into play. Official maps mostly document risk management, the regulation of movement, and the control of bodies. The countermaps produced through this project move in the opposite direction: there is a mutual transformation of body and territory, where the body is understood as a political entity whose experience shapes the territory — not the other way around.
Publication: Proyecto de Cartografía Crítica con Perspectiva de Género
Press article: Mujeres en Puebla se sientesn observadas en Casa Aguayo y Congreso
Interview: Mapeo Colectivo sobre violencia de género
