Empathic Projections: Performance and Countermapping of Sitio San Roque, Quezon City, and University of the Philippines

Abstract

This article argues that empathy, as a crucial component of a feminist geographic research practice, binds different people across different sociopolitical and spatial divides. I situate empathy and reflect on the ways it could be felt and be made to operate differently in the specific context of Quezon City, Philippines, and the neoliberalizing public state university from which the project emerged. It argues that empathy can be mobilized as an affective mode of countermapping, specifically by creating different itineraries into places and connecting spaces to forge new solidarities.