GeoComunes is a collective that carries out research and collaborative mapping for the defense of common goods. We understand common goods as all elements that are integrated within the process of social reproduction and which by that form the very fabric of freedom and any possible life in the community. Our cartographic perspective includes two […]
The Environmental Justice Atlas
The environmental movement has been described as “the most comprehensive and influential movement of our time” (Castells, 1997: 67), representing for the “post-industrial” age what the workers’ movement was for the industrial period. While strike statistics have been collected for many countries since the late nineteenth century and are currently tracked by the World Labour […]
Untangling the Strategies of Capital
Ecuador’s Critical Geography Collective emerged in 2012 as a result of a happy encounter among geographers, social scientists and activists concerned with answering theoretical and practical questions about growing territorial tensions around the country. Even though Ecuador has had one of the most advanced constitutions in the world since 2008 pertaining to the rights of […]
A Civic Mapping Project in an Indian Megacity
Hyderabad Urban Lab (HUL) looks at cities as a complex set of relationships consisting of relations of production, social relations and relations between citizens and governments. HUL began in mid-2012 with the aim of conducting research on urban issues in a way that would bridge the gap between academic urban research and life at the […]
You Must Buy before You Can Fly
The following maps are the result of a long-term observation process that I made in many airports mainly in Europe. At the same time they represent a symbol. The Observation Process The maps show how the general public, and specifically the passengers, are moving in a space carefully designed by an “invisible” force. By this […]
