This is Our Land


Photo of barn in Coloradas de la Virgen

This is Our Land

Participatory mapping of forced displacement through collective embroidery

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Margarita Rivera Arrivillaga
PhD Student in Sociocultural Anthropology The University of Kansas
Raúl Fernando Pérez Lira
Photographer and Writer

Consultation, training, and technical assistance provided by the IDRH

GIS/Mapping Digital Storytelling

This Is Our Land is an ArcGIS StoryMap by Margarita Rivera Arrivillaga and Raúl Fernando Pérez Lira that uses participatory mapping and collective embroidery to document forced displacement. The project combines community-centered storytelling with geospatial tools to visualize how communities have been displaced from their lands, centering the perspectives of those who experienced it firsthand.