Daily practices and mobility apparatus. A political approximation to daily mobility in the poor periurban settlements of Santiago de Chile

Authors

  • Yves Jouffe Doctor en Sociología del ENPC, Francia. Investigador, post-doctorado en el Instituto de la Vivienda. Universidad de Chile
  • Alejandra Lazo Corvalán Magíster en Antropología, EHESS, Francia. Doctorado (c) Universidad de Toulouse - Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4067/S0250-71612010000200002

Keywords:

mobility, urban periphery, poverty, urban transportation

Abstract

In spite of the reforms in the transport system of Santiago de Chile, it appears that the needs of social and spatially marginalised inhabitants are not being met adequately. These poor city dwellers use their options for manoeuvre to offset this inadecuacy in their daily mobility. Their daily mobility practices and their ways of using, subverting or resisting the transport system are critically discussed in terms of the apparatus that shape the system. Three types of practices as power relations are identified - liberation, liberty and libration - and used to characterize forms of daily mobility in a poor district on the southern periphery of Santiago de Chile.

Published

2010-08-02

How to Cite

Jouffe, Y., & Lazo Corvalán, A. (2010). Daily practices and mobility apparatus. A political approximation to daily mobility in the poor periurban settlements of Santiago de Chile. Revista EURE - Revista De Estudios Urbano Regionales, 36(108). https://doi.org/10.4067/S0250-71612010000200002

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