This session will focus on the concept of the body-territory-land from different perspectives and regions. The concept of the body-territory-land has been developed by Latin American feminist and decolonial academic activists working with communities, particularly women, in resistance against extractivism, patriarchy, racism, capitalism and colonialism, and their violence. Mapping bodies-territories seeks to center the embodied knowledge, practices, and visions of exploited and silenced peoples-territories. It enunciates and visualizes the intrinsic connections between the material and the affective, the “feeling” and the “thinking,” what happens in territories and in our bodies through a body drawn, filmed, danced, or collectively (en)acted. In this session, we will discuss readings that offer reflections on the concept and practice of body-territory-land in the theater of the oppressed, in cinema, and in urban and rural cartography in Ecuador, Uruguay, Brazil, and Spain-Morocco.

Readings 

• Conceptual framework and body-territory mapping practice:

Zaragocin, S. & Carretta. M.A. (2021). Body-Territory: A Decolonial Feminist Geographical Method for the Study of Embodiment. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 111(5)

• Theater of the oppressed practice

Rodríguez, L., et al. (2020) Desde el cuerpo: arte, política y transformación. Compartires de Magdalenas Uruguay-Teatro de las Oprimidas (chapter in the book Cuerpos, Territorios y Feminismos) 

• Filmmaking practice 

Dehn, R. (2023). Crossing borders: Body-territory and knowledge production in Randa Maroufi Artistic Practice. Revista de Estudios Globales y Arte Contemporáneo

Suggested further reading 

• Body-territory mapping practice 

Heimer, R. et al. (2022) Body Mapping: Mapping women\'s resistance to violence in the favelas of Mare, Rio de Janeiro. King\'s College London.

Registration is free, but mandatory

Coordenation: Gustavo Garcia-Lopez, Mariana Riquito, Flora Pereira da Silva