The IN3 organises a talk on the right to the city and emotions from an intersectional feminist perspective by Dr. Maria Rodó de Zárate (researcher at the GenTIC research group about relations between Gender and ICT in the Knowledge Society).
Please, note that the seminar will be available by video streaming and the video will be published in the IN3 playlist of UOC YouTube channel.
Venue
Room -1A, UOC Castelldefels building (Parc Mediterrani de la Tecnologia, B3 building)
Av. Carl Friedrich Gauss, 5
08860 Castelldefels (Barcelona)
Espanya
When
10/10/2016 11.30h
Organized by
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, GenTIC research group of the IN3
Program
The right to the city is understood to be a fundamental right of those who live in cities (Lefebvre 1968). Despite its theoretical and political importance, the concept has been criticized for overlooking individual and collective differences and for excluding the analysis of patriarchal power relations. From a feminist perspective, this study aims to identify fundamental aspects of the right to the city concept that are typically ignored and are the source of multiple exclusions. Matters such as emotional inequality or fear of public spaces require methodologies and conceptual frameworks that enable researchers to capture emotions as indicators of unequal access to the city. In this talk I will present the Relief Maps I have developed as a methodology for collecting data and analyzing it in relation to three dimensions: geography, psychology and society. Through the creation of a visual image, a relief map of oppression and privilege is revealed, giving special emphasis to the role of emotions in the (re)production process of inequalities. Thus, from an intersectional feminist approach, considering various positions of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, class and age, I attempt to take a step forward in the right to the city concept with the goal of providing tools to understand, and answer to, the complexity of power relationships in cities.
The seminari will be held in Catalan.