Articles about "public transport"

Temáticas

From El Hombre-camión to the Users and Operators United Front: Annals of Collaborative Audiovisual Methodology Research

  • Hector Robledo
  • Lirba Cano

Whe documentary El Hombre-Camión (2013) is the product of an investigation carried out by the Caracol urbano collective about the problems of public transportation in the metropolitan area of Guadalajara (amg). We show how the collaborative audiovisual methodology that we have developed has allowed us to promote collaborative relationships between different social actors, favoring the formation of the Common Front of Users and Operators as well as the call for successive collective actions organized for the improvement of public transport in the amg. One of the main slogans of these actions has been the improvement of the working conditions of public transport truck drivers, as an unavoidable factor for the improvement of the service.

Entrevistas

Road anthropology, a proposal for the study of mobility as a cultural field

Interview with
  • Paul wright

  • Christian O. Grimaldo-Rodríguez

Se then presents a conversation about the role of anthropology in the study of road behavior, the relationships between material infrastructures and symbolic structures, the political expressions of urban mobility and the discussion of various ideas and positions of Dr. Pablo Wright about what he calls a "road anthropology". It delves into some details such as the symbolic rebellion of urban pedestrians, the design and implementation of mobile methodologies for research and road behaviors as a field in dispute between the State and citizens in the context of Latin America.