The next Research Forum session of the academic year 2023-2024

The Department of Political and Social Sciences invites DCPIS members, PhD, and Master students.

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Presentation: Mapping Intersectionality: New Conceptual and Methodological Tools for the Study of Inequalities

Speaker: Maria Rodó-Zárate (UPF)

Chair: Maria José González (UPF)

Date: Thursday, April 4th, 2024

Time: 12pm - 1:30pm CEST

Room: 23.S05 Auditori Mercè Rodoreda

Building: Mercè Rodoreda

This will be a hybrid event that you can attend in person or online.

Zoom Link: https://upf-edu.zoom.us/j/97628938672

Registration link: https://forms.gle/DeA1DYQ4yn17Sezz9

Abstract

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 speaker

Maria Rodó-Zárate is a professor at the Political and Social Sciences Department at UPF. She is graduated in Political Sciences (UAB), Master in Women, Gender and Citizenship Studies (UB) and PhD in Geography (UAB). She coordinates the Research Group on Gender and Inequalities (GRETA) and her research focuses on the study of social inequalities from an intersectional, spatial and emotional perspective. She has also developed specific methodologies for the study of intersecting inequalities such as the Relief Maps (reliefmaps.upf.edu)