572.2 New forms of social exclusión through urban daily mobility practices

Friday, August 3, 2012: 2:45 PM
Faculty of Economics, TBA
Paola JIRON , Instituto de la Vivienda, Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
From an understanding of urban daily mobility practices, new forms of urban exclusion can be detected in Latin American cities. The experience of social exclusion is neither permanent nor fixed, and it often fluctuates depending on the soical, physical, economic and cultural spaces through which people move daily. On one single day, different forms of urban exclusion can be manifested, or on the contrary, integration events emerge from the daily experience of traveling. Using and ethnographic approach to the urban daily mobility experiences of travelers from different socioeconomic income, age and sex in Santiago de Chile, this work unveils new forms of social exclusion, that can shed light on new ways of understanding contemporary urban phenomena.