Articles about "Mexico City"

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Images of faith. Visual sociology of La Condesa neighborhood in Mexico City.

  • Hugo Jose Suarez

The video is the result of an investigation that sought to account for religious diversity in the Condesa neighborhood of Mexico City. The collection of information was carried out between 2016 and 2018. By allowing the images to be the protagonists, a visual argument is built, woven with an oral story that explains the three dominant matrices in this neighborhood: Catholicism, in its official version, popular religiosity or angelic devotion; the expansion of yes and the culture of "self-improvement" and alternative therapies; and oriental religious expressions. The documentary shows a territory in transformation, where the landscape of faith touches the traditional boundaries of what is understood as religious.

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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.