BODY-TERRITORY MAPS IN ACTION
Collaborating with rural and Indigenous communities interested in discussing their struggles in urban and rural areas. We have used body-territory mapping techniques to explore issues such as:
Struggles to secure legal access to ancestral land.
Visibilize the role of Indigenous women on national strikes
Efforts to denounce and visibilize contamination by mercury and oil in gold and oil extraction.
Efforts to explore racial and gender violence in our homes and communities.
Here is some of the visual work that has resulted from a series of workshops:
For more information on how to work with body-territory mapping, please see the manual written by the Colectiva Miradas Criticas del Territorio desde el Feminismo in 2017 (Spanish), or the article published by Elizabeth Sweet and Sara Ortiz Escalante in 2017 (English). Links provided below:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0966369X.2016.1219325