Counter Maps

women towards a decolonial cartographic practice

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8183178

Keywords:

counter map, decolonial, female mapmakers, survival, topological relationships

Abstract

The cartographic contributions of the peoples subjected to colonization and marginalized by the visual regimes of the West begin to come to light. These practices of counter-cartographic representation located on the limits of traditional cartography, have been and are still used today as a tool of resistance with a view to recovering a political presence made invisible in the colonial and neo-colonial narratives. In this article, we will focus on the variables of three cases of decolonial graphic productions of indigenous and Afro-descendant women in order to understand these alternative practices as critical propositions about the reality of themselves in their environment. For these reasons, they can contribute to revisiting History, by incorporating their bodies as historical and active subjects in the transformation of past and present reality.

Author Biographies

Kiara Marina Firpi Carrión, Polytechnic University of Madrid

Architect (PUPR, 2017) specialized in architectural communication (UPM + UCM, 2018). Her professional focus is understanding how architecture interconnects with other disciplines. For this reason, she currently rethinks the maps from a feminist perspective in her doctoral thesis in order to understand the territory through the cartographies created by women. She recovers maps made by them and analyzes them according to different categories that correspond to the objectives of those who made it. She makes the work of these women visible at www.othercartographies.com and @othercartographies on Instagram.

Atxu Amann, Polytechnic University of Madrid

PhD architect and urban planner, she is a tenured professor and researcher at the Higher Technical School of Architecture of the Polytechnic University of Madrid, where she directs the doctoral program and the university master's degree in Architectural Communication. She addresses different practices from the HYPERMEDIA research group that she directs, especially in areas linked to domesticity, gender and the more than human. Her building practices are carried out by her together with her partners in the studio known as Extreme Temperatures architects.

Lucía Jalón Oyarzum, Polytechnic University of Madrid

Architect and researcher. She graduated from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, where she also obtained a Master's Degree in Advanced Architectural Projects and defended her doctoral thesis "Exception and rebel body: the political as a generator of a minor architecture" in 2017. Since 2010 she has been a researcher in the Cultural Landscape Research Group of the Polytechnic University of Madrid, and since 2019 she is a postdoctoral researcher and research manager at the ALICE laboratory (Atelier de la Conception). de l'Espace) of the EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). From 2017 to 2020 she was the Academic Director of the SUR School, a multidisciplinary art postgraduate program at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid. In 2018, she curated the exhibition "4R Resistencia, Rebeldía, Revuelta, Revolución", a genealogy of the revolt through art and thought. Her work, which ranges from scientific production to cultural criticism, has been published in numerous national and international publications.  

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2023-07-30

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Firpi Carrión, K. M., Amann, A., & Jalón Oyarzum, L. (2023). Counter Maps: women towards a decolonial cartographic practice. ASRI. Art and Society. Journal for Research in Arts and Digital Humanities, (23), 61–71. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8183178

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No. 23 (2023): OPENASRIASRI. Miscellaneous Number

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