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(Im)Mobility and Health in Santiago de Chile
- Journal of Latin American Geography
- University of Texas Press
- Volume 19, Number 3, July 2020
- pp. 240-247
- 10.1353/lag.2020.0045
- Article
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abstract:
In this essay, we focus on how (im)mobility reflects wider socio-spatial and health inequalities in a highly segregated city: Santiago de Chile. Such immobility is relevant because it challenges common understandings of mobility in at least three ways: it reconfigures the relationship between mobility and health; it shows that inequality becomes visible not only when considering if a person can move, but also when examining the ability of a person to not move; and it shows how the immobility of some people is made possible by the hypermobility of others.