Becoming cartographer

Abstract

The subjective production of care constitutes an essential element of any health work process and it emerges as a common territory for everyone involved. During pregnancy, birth and in the postnatal period, care is produced daily by health professionals according to their singularity, and it enables them to open up territories of health practices. The article focuses on the reflections and discussions that emerge during a cartographic research, which took place in an Obstetric and Gynecologic Service of a regional hospital. We present a situated discussion of different dimensions of this cartographic research: entering into the context, the construction of the role of researcher, context rules and limits, the construction of intersectional spaces and the articulation between “vibrant eye” and “retina eye”. The production of care is seen as a territory of health practices in which micropolitical field seeks to reveal and create singularities to open fissures in the dominant subjectivity.