Carmen Icazuriaga Montes holds a B.A. and M.A. in Social Anthropology from the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. D. in Human Geography from the Sorbonne-Paris I University. Professor-researcher C at the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social. She has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in Anthropology at different universities. She has held various academic-administrative positions at the ciesas and has been a member of different commissions of other academic institutions in the country. She is the institutional head of the Elisée Reclus Chair of Human Geography. Her lines of research are metropolization, urban development, middle sectors, urban culture, mobility, accessibility, appropriation and uses of public space by different sectors of the population in the cdmx.

Temáticas

Digital Strategies for the Everyday Mobility of Young Women in Mexico City

  • Carmen Icazuriaga Montes
  • Gabriela García Gorbea

Keywords: Mexico City, digital strategies for mobility, imaginaries of fear, insecurity, women's mobility.

What measures do women take to move through a public space they perceive as dangerous? This article analyzes how fear conditions women's intra-urban mobility in Mexico City and the actions they take in response. Based on questionnaires and digital media interviews with young middle-class women between 19 and 30 years of age, we analyze the knowledge they develop to feel safer during their movements. Their perception of safety and fear are conditioned by factors such as gender, age, experience and the areas through which they move, so they develop multiple response strategies. These women use digital technology to generate safety nets, turning mobility into an activity that is carried out from virtual co-presence and under a logic of collective care.