Postdoctoral Researcher at GenTIC from 2015 to 2020
I am currently a tenure-track professor at the Political and Social Sciences Department at Pompeu Fabra University. Formerly, I have been a Serra Hunter Fellow at the MIDE department of the University of Barcelona (2020-2022) and a Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral researcher at the Gender and ICT research group of the IN3 (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) (2015-2020). I got my degree in Political Sciences from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, a Master’s in Women, Gender and Citizenship Studies from the University of Barcelona (with an extraordinary award) and my PhD in Geography from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (with international mention and extraordinary award).
I have been a visiting research fellow at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (United States), Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa (Brazil) and University College Dublin (Ireland). I have also been a PNDP/CAPES postdoctoral researcher at UEPG (2015).
My research focuses on the study of social inequalities from an intersectional, spatial and emotional perspective applied to issues such as the right to the city, gender-based violence or LGBTI-phobia. I am interested in the spatial articulations among social categories such as gender, class, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age or (dis)ability, and their effects on lived experience.
I have also developed specific methodologies for the study of intersectionality such as the Relief Maps, which won the Ramon Molinas Award (2018) for the best social impact project.
Contact
Email: maria.rodo@upf.edu
ORCID: 0000-0003-0633-4856
Social: Academia.edu, Twitter
Selected publications
Arroyo, Lídia, Garrido, Natalia, Rodó, Maria & Sáinz, Milagros (2021). Guía de contenidos sobre Género & LGTBIQ. Recursos: contenidos teóricos. School Break Project. Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. https://doi.org/10.7238/uoc.game.genero.2021
Martínez-Cantos, José Luis, & Rodó-de-Zárate, Maria (2020). El efecto Merlí: Televisión y elección de grados universitarios relacionados con la filosofía [The Merlí effect: Television and choice of philosophy related degrees]. Athenea Digital, 20(1), e2453. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/athenea.2453
Rodó-Zárate, Maria (2020). Gender, Nation, and Situated Intersectionality: The Case of Catalan Pro-independence Feminism. Politics & Gender, 16(2), 608-636. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743923X19000035
Rodó-Zárate, Maria, & Jorba, Marta (2020). Metaphors of intersectionality: Reframing the debate with a new proposal. European Journal of Women’s Studies. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350506820930734
Rodó-de-Zárate, Maria (2020). Nationhood: feminist approaches, emancipatory processes and intersecting identities. In Anindita Datta, Peter Hopkins, Lynda Johnston, Elizabeth Olson, & Joseli Maria Silva (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Gender and Feminist Geographies (pp. 212-222). Routledge. Taylor & Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315164748
Sáinz, Milagros, Fàbregues, Sergi, Rodó-de-Zárate, Maria, Martínez-Cantos, José-Luis, Arroyo, Lidia, & Romano, María José (2020). Gendered Motivations to Pursue Male-Dominated STEM Careers Among Spanish Young People: A Qualitative Study. Journal of Career Development, 47(4), 408–423. https://doi.org/10.1177/0894845318801101
Silva, Joseli Maria; Rodó-de-Zárate, Maria; Ornat, Marcio Jose (forthcoming, 2020). Age, sexuality and intersectionalities: spatial experiences of Brazillian travestis and transwomen aging process. The Routledge Research Companion to Transgender Studies.
Rodó-Zárate, Maria (forthcoming 2020). Intersectionality for and from Queer Urban Activism Viewed through Lesbian Activism in Barcelona. Geography Research Forum
Jorba, Marta, & Rodó-Zárate, Maria (2019). Beyond mutual constitution: the property framework for intersectionality studies. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 45(1), 175-200.
Rodó-Zárate, Maria (2019). Gender, Nation and Situated Intersectionality: the case of Catalan pro-independence feminism. Politics and Gender. doi: 10.1017/S1743923X19000035
Rodó-de-Zárate, Maria, Estivill i Castany, Jordi, & Eizagirre Telleria, Nerea (2019). La configuración y las consecuencias del miedo en el espacio público desde la perspectiva de género [Configuration and consequences of fear in public space from a gender perspective]. Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas, 167, 89-106.
Rodó-de-Zárate, Maria (2019). Intersectionality (entry) The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies.
Jorba, Marta, & Rodó-de-Zárate, Maria (2018). ‘Madre hay más que una’: reflexiones en torno a las maternidades Lesbians. [‘There is Not only One Mother’: Reflections on Lesbian Maternities] LES Online – Revista Latino Americana de Geografia e Gênero, 9(2), 222-236.
Rodó-de-Zárate, Maria, & Baylina, Mireia (2018). Feminist Geographies of Intersectionality: an introduction. Gender, Place and Culture, 25(4), 547-553.
Baylina, Mireia, Garcia-Ramon, Maria Dolors, Porto, Ana María, Rodó-de-Zárate, Maria, Salamaña, Isabel, & Villarino, Montserrat (2017). Work-life balance of professional women in rural Spain. Gender, Place and Culture 24(1), 72 – 84.
Rodó de Zárate, M. (2017). Who else are they? Systematizing childhood and youth research on intersectionality. Children’s Geographies, 15(1), 23-35.
Rodó-de-Zárate, Maria (2017). Geografies de la interseccionalitat: llocs, emocions, desigualtats. Treballs de la Societat Catalana de Geografia, 82, 141-163.
Rodó-de-Zárate, Maria (2017). Affective inequality and heteronormative discomforts. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie [Journal for Economic and Social Geography]. (Published Online doi: 10.1111/tesg.12234)
Rodó-de-Zárate, Maria (2016). Feminist and queer epistemologies beyond the academia and the Anglophone world: political intersectionality and transfeminism in the Catalan context. In G. Brown and K. Browne (Eds.) The Routledge Research Companion to Geographies of Sex and Sexualities. UK: Routledge.
Baylina, Mireia, & Rodó-de-Zárate, Maria (2016). New visual methods for teaching intersectionality from a spatial perspective in a geography and gender course. Journal of Geography in Higher Education. doi: 10.1080/03098265.2016.1218828
Rodó-de-Zárate, Maria (2015). Young lesbians negotiating public space in Manresa: an intersectional approach through places. Children’s Geographies, 13(4), 413-434.
Rodó-de-Zárate, Maria (2015). El acceso de la juventud al espacio público en Manresa. Una aproximación desde las geografías feministas de la interseccionalidad [Young people access to public space: an approach from feminist geographies of intersectionality]. Scripta Nova. Revista Electrónica de Geografía y Ciencias Sociales. vol. XIX, nº 504
Rodó-de-Zárate, Maria (2015). Managing fear in public space: young feminists’ intersectional experiences through Participatory Action Research. Cahiers du CEDREF (online) vol.21.
Rodó-de-Zárate, Maria (2014). Developing geographies of intersectionality with Relief Maps: reflections from youth research in Manresa, Catalonia. Gender, Place & Culture, 21(8), 925-944.
Rodó-de-Zárate, Maria, & Baylina, Mireia (2014). Learning in/through public space: young girls and feminist consciousness-raising. In S. Mills and P. Kraftl (Eds.) Informal Education, Childhood and Youth: Geographies, Histories, Practices. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Rodó-de-Zárate, Maria (2013). Gènere, cos i sexualitat: La joventut i l’experiència i ús de l’espai públic urbà [Gender, body and sexuality: youth, use and experience of urban public space] Papers: Revista de Sociologia, 98(1), 127-142.
Selected projects
“Aplicació dels Relief Maps per l’acompanyament i la recollida de dades sobre discriminació / Application of the e-Relief Maps for the accompaniment and collection of data on discrimination”. Funded by Oficina per la No Discriminació/Office for Non-Dicrimination. September 2019-Desember 2020. Lead researcher: Maria Rodó-Zárate
“Explotació de l’Enquesta de violència masclista a Catalunya de 2016 des de la perspectiva de la joventut/ Exploitation of the Survey on gender violence in Catalonia in 2016 from the perspective of youth ” Funded by Agència Catalana de la Joventut. July 2019 – December 2019. Lead researcher: Maria Rodó-Zárate
“Mirades polièdriques a la violència de gènere: propostes per a la prevenció als centres de secundària des d’una perspectiva holística i interseccional” [Multifaceted views of gender violence: Proposals for prevention at secondary schools from a holistic and intersectional perspective]. Funded by RecerCaixa. April 2018 – April 2021. Lead researchers: Maria Rodó-Zárate and Gerard Coll-Planas.
“Pla comarcal per garantir els drets de les persones lesbianes, gais, trans, bisexuals i intersexuals (LGTBI) 2018 – 2021”. Funded by Diputació de Barcelona. November 2017- October 2018. Lead researcher: Maria Rodó-Zárate
“La calle es mía? Poder, miedo y estrategias de empoderamiento de mujeres jóvenes en un espacio público hostil” [Taking back the streets? Power, fear and young women’s empowerment strategies in a hostile public space]. Funded by Emakunde- Instituto Vasco de la Mujer. July 2015-May 2016. Lead researcher: Maria Rodó-Zárate
“Spreading the Seed: Feminist Kurdish Revolution and Radical Epistemologies”. Funded by Antipode Foundation (Scholar-Activist Project Awards 2015). May 2015 – April 2016. Lead researchers: Maria Rodó-Zárate and Marta Jorba
“Hacer ciudad desde los barrios. Geografías del género y de la edad en la construcción del tejido urbano” [Building cities through neighborhoods: gender and age geographies in the construction of urban space]. Funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. 2009-12. Lead researcher: Maria Dolors Garcia Ramon
“Mujeres, trabajo y ruralidad: estrategias innovadoras para el desarrollo de un proyecto profesional y personal” [Women, work and rurality: innovative strategies for the development of professional and personal projects]. Funded by: Instituto de la Mujer. Lead researcher: Mireia Baylina
“Geografías de la infancia y la juventud: género, vida cotidiana y prácticas espaciales” [Children and Youth geographies: gender, everyday life and spatial practices]. Funded by: Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competivity. 2012-15. Lead researcher: Maria Prats