Corporeo-cartographies of homelessness: women’s embodied experiences of homelessness and urban space

From invisibility to putting ‘them’ on the map – women experiencing homelessness and their bodies have been researched and discussed in many different ways as a particular socio-spatial instance of urban poverty in geography and beyond. While there has been a focus on questioning the politics of removing, counting, controlling, or managing bodies experiencing homelessness in urban space, bodies themselves as bearers of urban knowledge have been mostly overlooked. With the help of the Latin-American decolonial feminist approach of mapping body territories (Cuerpo-Territorio) this paper draws attention to the experiences of homeless women’s bodies in relation to space and their complex entanglements with urban power relations.