Event Information
📍 Participation is open to the public and free of charge.
This lecture is part of the Gender Lecture Series 2025
Abstract
Intersectionality has become a central analytical framework in the past decade for understanding inequality. It highlights how individuals’ experiences of inequality are shaped by their overlapping social positions—such as gender, ethnicity, age, social class, and sexual orientation. These intersecting identities create specific forms of discrimination and disadvantage that vary across different spatial and social contexts.
This presentation will explore the latest developments in Relief Maps, a methodological and theoretical model designed to analyze and visualize intersecting inequalities through both emotional and spatial perspectives. Rooted in intersectionality, this approach examines how power structures are experienced geographically and emotionally in everyday life.
As part of the INTERMAPS project, a new digital open-access tool has been developed: www.reliefmaps.upf.edu. This tool allows for the visual collection of data on intersectional positions, integrating qualitative, quantitative, and spatial methods. It also includes a GIS feature that links textual narratives with geographic coordinates, capturing the complex relationships between place, scale, and lived experiences of inequality.
Biography of the Speaker
Maria Rodó-Zárate is a Professor in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona). She holds a degree in Political Sciences (UAB), a Master’s in Women, Gender and Citizenship Studies (UB), and a PhD in Geography (UAB).
She coordinates the GRETA Research Group on Gender and Inequalities, and her work focuses on intersectional, spatial, and emotional analyses of social inequalities. She has developed innovative methodologies, including the Relief Maps, and currently leads the INTERMAPS project on intersectional inequalities in everyday life. She also coordinates research on anti-gender discourse effects within the RESIST project.
🔗 Website: https://www.upf.edu/web/maria-rodo