Next week we will host our fifth open Seminar. On this occasion we will be hearing from Núria Font-Casaseca who is a Post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, Pompeu Fabra University and a member of the INTERMAPS project. She is also an Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography, University of Barcelona. Her research interests include critical cartography, feminist visual methodologies and urban socio-spatial inequalities

The presentation will take place on November 15, 2:30-3:30 pm, in Room 40.249 (Roger de Llúria building)

Abstract

A more imaginative and transgressive understanding on cartography and data visualization opens up new possibilities for social research. While maps, graphics and visualizations are often seen as objective representations of reality, it's essential to recognize that they are shaped by the epistemologies and positionalities of those creating and using them. Feminist contributions have challenged how digital and visual technologies reproduce and reinforce power relations and systems of oppression. Moreover, spaces are heterogeneous and encompass a multiplicity of experiences, processes and relationships difficult to capture with conventional geospatial and visual technologies. Despite these limitations, visual methods can also be valuable tools to analyze the complex relationship between space/place, emotions and inequalities from a feminist and an intersectional perspective.