Social Psychology and Gender. On the use of Body Maps for a Situated Psychology in Our America

Abstract

This article proposes to think about the use of Body Maps as a powerful methodology for a situated Social Psychology, based on its links with Gender Studies that establish the urgency for a decolonial and intersectional practice. For this, what was done in the field work is stated in a qualitative investigation whose object of study was to investigate the processes of subjectivation of Afro-descendant migrant women who live in North Patagonia, Argentina, the technique of body maps was key. One of the specific objectives was to understand what place the body of these women occupies in their migratory trajectories and in relation to the construction of their subjectivity. Body maps have had a striking rise in recent research and are powerful tools for feminist intersectional studies. Working with and in the body invites us to decolonize our research praxis, placing us, critically, on our own body and territory. In this research, this methodological tool showed how racialization, sexualization and agency predominate in the becoming of women, linking to the processes of subjectivation of these women and their migratory trajectories. The above is key in building a Community Social Psychology for and of our People.