McKittrick’s iconic idea is that black women’s geographies are not marginal additions to spatial theory but foundational critiques of how geography, property, plantation space, memory and liberation are organised. Her theoretical contribution is the concept of demonic grounds: spatial formations that disturb transparent mapping, expose the racial violence embedded in geographic knowledge, and open alternative cartographies of struggle. For Socioplastics, Demonic Grounds is essential because it turns mapping into a political and poetic operation: space is read through dispossession, resistance, embodiment, narrative and the unfinished archive. Its operational value lies in refusing neutral spatial description; every index, field map and urban diagram must account for power, erasure, fugitivity and lived positionality. The bridge is to black geographies, feminist theory and critical cartography, where the production of space becomes inseparable from racialised histories and counter-spatial imagination.
