The PI of the INTERMAPS project will be presenting at the UPF Research Forum about the research that our team is carrying out. The talk is titled "Mapping Intersectionality: New Conceptual and Methodological Tools for the Study of Inequalities". You can find more information below.

Abstract of the presentation

People who are differently positioned in relation to their gender, ethnicity, age, social class, sexual orientation, etc., experience inequality in different ways. Intersectionality theory shows that the interconnection of different positions produces specific configurations of inequality, which are also differently configured in different spaces. In the framework of the INTERMAPS project I aim to show the new developments of the Relief Maps model as a visual method, a way of collecting, analysing and displaying data on intersecting inequalities. They make possible the visualization of complex social dynamics while relating emotions (the psychological dimension), power structures (the social dimension) and places (the geographical dimension). With the new digital applications, we use the potential of the visual and technology for empirical research combining and integrating qualitative, quantitative and spatial (GIS) approaches. Applied to a specific case study, the new data collected enables a better understanding of how structural inequalities are (re)produced and how they differently affect people’s everyday lives.

About the event

• Speaker: Maria Rodó-Zárate
• Chair: Maria José González (UPF)
• Date: Thursday, April 4th, 2024
• Time: 12pm - 1:30pm CEST
• Room: 23.S05 (Auditori Mercè Rodoreda)
• Building: Mercè Rodoreda

You can attend in person or online:

• Zoom Link: https://upf-edu.zoom.us/j/97628938672
• Registration link: https://forms.gle/DeA1DYQ4yn17Sezz9