Mapping a counter-topography through Popular Theatre: Sistren Theatre Collective's feminist activism in Jamaica and Canada

Abstract

This article argues that Cindi Katz’s methodology of mapping topographies and counter-topographies may not always work effectively ‘on the ground’. By analysing Sistren Theatre Collective’s feminist activism, through which counter-topographies were mapped in Jamaica and Canada, this article evaluates the possibilities and realities of forging the types of ‘economic-political alliances’ Katz proposes as a way of fighting globalisation. The article concludes that Katz’s methodology is short on concrete suggestions for the ways in which these alliances can be sustained.