Radical Mapping with Social Movements

How can mapping help movements? This event will share experiences from folks who integrate mapping with social movement organizing. Join us for presentations by members of the Counter-Cartographies Collective (Liz Mason-Deese and Tim Stallmann), the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project (Manissa Maharawal and Erin McElroy), Felicia Arriaga, and the Marian Cheek Jackson Center (Della Pollock and George Barrett).

Date: Wed., March 21, 3pm-5pm
– 3pm-3:50pm – presentation by the Counter-Cartographies Collective about principles and approaches of radical mapping.
– 4pm-5pm – panel of presenters, followed by Q&A.
Location: East Duke Building, Room 209
1304 Campus Dr, Durham, NC

Due to limited space, please register for this FREE event here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/radical-mapping-with-movements-tickets-43913364054

About the presenters:

The Counter-Cartographies Collective works on mapping in order to:
– render new images and practices of economies and social relations,
– destabilize centered and exclusionary representations of the social and economic
– construct new imaginaries of collective struggle and alternative worlds.
They seek to create collaborations for engaged research and cartography — transforming the conditions of how we think, write and map and the conditions about which we think, write and map. They work in a variety of media and have engaged in a variety of projects, from drifts to dis-orientation guides, from community-led convergences to hosting major academic cartographers, as well as participating in direct actions and publishing in activist and scholarly publications and conferences. (See https://www.countercartographies.org/ )

The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project is a digital cartography and storytelling collective documenting displacement and resistance struggles upon gentrifying landscapes. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, and New York City, they create maps, perform analysis, and record narratives with numerous community organizations and activist collaborators. Members of this project, Manissa Maharawal and Erin McElroy, will join us via Skype. (See https://www.antievictionmap.com/ )

Felicia Arriaga is a bilingual latinx organizer in Durham NC and a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at Duke University. Felicia’s research is in the areas of race and ethnicity, immigration, and crimmigration (criminalization of immigration policy and procedure). Her dissertation research highlights how federal immigration enforcement programs are implemented through local law enforcement in counties throughout North Carolina. She is especially interested in how these policies and procedures relate to issues of criminal justice accountability, transparency and reform. She is currently supporting research fellows hosted by the NC Black Leadership Organizing Collective’s North Carolina Statewide Police Accountability Network (NCSPAN) in a project called #UnveilthePower, which brings together a network of power research fellows to find what’s behind our state’s police.

The Marian Cheek Jackson Center is a hub of collaborative action dedicated to honoring, renewing, and building community in two historically Black neighborhoods in Chapel Hill NC generally known as Northside and Pine Knolls. Formerly segregated labor enclaves, Northside and Pine Knolls are home to 4th and 5th generation residents whose histories remain largely dismissed and discounted. In recent years, the neighborhoods have seen a 1:1 displacement of black homeowners by white (usually student) tenants. The Jackson Center aims to do justice by the 150 oral histories it now holds in trust through housing, food, and youth advocacy and organizing. As a result, in 2017, Northside saw the first rise in the Black population in over 40 years. For more info, see https://jacksoncenter.info/