Sixteen years ago, Mexico hosted the IV International Conference of Critical Geography (ICCG), organized by Professor Blanca Rebeca Ramírez. This event was a milestone for geographical thought in Latin America, opening and establishing international collaborative networks from perspectives influenced by critical geographies. After Mexico, the ICCG was hosted by Mumbai (2007), Frankfurt (2011), Ramallah (2015), and Athens (2019) (https://internationalcriticalgeography.org/), covering several latitudes to reach, find and connect more people with a similar search: conscious and critical openness to a diversity of paths leading to the development of committed geographies. These geographies take part in socio-environmental justice, struggles for recognition and the creation of a pluridiverse and more equal world.
To continue Blanca Ramírez’s legacy –a foundational critical geographer both in Mexico and internationally– we emphasize the importance of bringing the ICCG back to Mexico to rehearse our interconnections. This event is firstly organized by GeoBrujas – Community of Geographers, who work in articulation with other colleagues from different locations, mainly Latin America and Spain, to make possible the IX Edition of the International Conference of Critical Geographies.
GeoBrujas is a community of women geographers initiated in 2014 in Mexico, with the purpose of providing a critical perspective on the patriarchal verticalities and academicism predominant in universities. This allowed us to notice that our dreams and politics could not be limited by institutional spaces, seeking other ways to make geographies, question the world in which we live, and reframe our forms of community and social engagement. Our geographical path is defined by walking, feeling and sensing different realities.