by CMMM team members
In this CMMM project, we were inspired by many existing projects and activities of engaged mobilizers, initiatives, critical mappers, networks, and collectives that are pushing to reshuffle power relations in their geographies. We have learned from them, and here we share the links to a selection of works that we found particularly relevant to our project and the current challenges and struggles regarding the right to housing. They range from publications by our three city teams and collections of critical mapping projects, maps, handbooks to the sites of international networks and local initiatives that caught our attention.
As our team agreed that it is important to problematize the language we use and to differentiate between the connotations, subjectivities, and political positions that shape the variations in discourses, in the first year of the project, we embarked on creating a “Glossary” to map and reflect the various understandings of the terms critical mapping, municipalist movements, housing, and tentacled terms.
This dynamic glossary, featured on this website, brings together definitions from (i) our city teams and their networks (filter: CMMM Wall); (ii) activists or public media and blogs (filter: Activist / Media); (iii) published scholarly sources (filter: Scholarly); and (iv) institutions relevant to our work (either because they echo a stance that resonates with our own, or because they advocate an oppositional one, filter: Institutional). Therefore, this visual illustration often features multiple definitions for each term. Here we note that definitions from literary sources are extractions from larger works. If you wish to learn about the full context in which they were produced, please refer to the indicated source.
Although we had initially foreseen this glossary as an activity that would continue to evolve and be reflected upon over the course of the project, the changes in the scopes of other outcomes and the time investment and effort required by those issues forced us to abandon this initial plan. The glossary that is featured here was thus created in the first phase of the project in efforts led by our colleague Lýdia Grešáková and was not re-visited afterward.
