Mapping Access as a Decolonial Crip Feminist Project

• In Event: Feminist Disruptions to the Neoliberal University

Abstract

The material spaces of the modern university reflect the bodies intended to dwell within campus architectures and landscapes, often to the exclusion of gendered, racialized, disabled, and classed bodies unanticipated by existing architectures and landscapes. Mapping reveals these exclusions. As new bodies and identities become legible in the spaces of higher education, participatory mapping has emerged as a counter-hegemonic tool for scholar-activists claiming "the right to the university" (see Temple). Focusing on the Mapping Access project, I explore the intersecting decolonial, crip, and feminist work of participatory campus mapping as an alternative to dominant ways of knowing "diversity."

Presenter

• Aimi Hamraie, Vanderbilt University