In recent years, feminist activists in various Latin American countries have been creating digital maps of feminicide —the gender-related violent deaths of women. The intersection of activism and mapping has been explored by scholars and activists who have addressed the performative, participatory and political nature of mapping, and by feminist scholars who have analysed and advocated for mapping and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to be reclaimed by and for women, and for feminist thinking and action. In this essay, I use the case of the Feminicidio Uruguay map and draw from some of the ideas of new materialism in order to put forward a novel methodological approach to study such an intersection. An approach that might reveal more complex understandings of the agency of digital things that are created in the disobedient appropriation of everyday objects, such as Google Maps.
Suárez Val, H. (2018). Vibrant Maps. INMATERIAL. Diseño, Arte y Sociedad, 3(5). https://raco.cat/index.php/Inmaterial/article/view/343375