06/03/2026
I’ve so enjoyed learning with .desais0n about territory based education practices in Ecuador’s Cloud Forest, where she’s rooted. From New York, I’ve been thinking about this work as in action, and we presented at an international group in Italy last week in anticipation of another share in Mexico this fall. Crossing so many borders is fitting for this work.
Schizocartography refers to the process of personal map making that helps individuals narrate identity in relationship to diverse places, histories, and identities carried within. This seems more and more relevant when totalizing narratives try to separate people from place or tell us we’re all the same and place isn’t important. In fact, more and more, we carry with us multiple places and fragmented aspects of identity. Finding ways to name and integrate the multiplicity of identity is a powerful way to resist.
The only singular narrative is the one each person writes for themselves.