Body mapping: feminist-activist geographies in practice

Body mapping is an intimate cartographic process that involves tracing the body and exploring one’s embodied experience. This visual, arts-based highly reflective, designed to empower communities express share stories – often those difficult utter. Steeped in various activist feminist traditions, also a practice of care. It not just about producing map but coming together tend build solidarities generate change. Our article seeks expand creative conversation around value for geographers as both research method pedagogical tool which may enable multiple bridges be crossed: academic, generational, linguistic. centers where it was first articulated South Africa reflects on 3-day workshop with Waterberg Women Advocacy Organization gendered impacts extractive industries. By insisting community ownership maps themselves how they get used data sovereignty remains at heart this method. insignificant, given persistent landscapes extraction Global South. Perhaps most critically, ethos underpinning explored here provides tangible ways our work can cultivate spaces care who regularly experience abdication