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Behavioral women's mobility in popular districts of San Salvador (El Salvador)

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This paper presents some results of a research dealing with low income people behavior in a metropolitan city of Latin America: San Salvador. It analyses the women's mobility, a topic for which the literature is weak, in a special context of civil war which has a high impact on the running of this metropolitan city. The research was based on about twenty interviews of employed women which reveal some unknownnd rich aspects of their mobility. It appears that they would be the only persons who have a "free practice of the central business district". To go window shopping would be taking their mind out of the influence of the dominant parts and rifts of the San Salvador society. The return trip, the slowest, would induce some feeling of freedom and self-sufficiency, out of the restricting circles of the work place and of the home.The San Salvador working class women's way of life may be lighted on by several original orientations: high dependence of public transport and appropriation of their deficiencies, structural dependence and practices of self-sufficiency, bad standards of life and life symbolic perceptions of the urban space. Dans une situation particulière s'il en est, celle de la guerre civile du Salvador qui perturbe jusqu'au fonctionnement de sa capitale, cette étude aborde un aspect original, important et rarement évoqué de la mobilité des secteurs populaires en Amérique Latine, celui des femmes. Il s'agit d'une démarche exploratoire basée sur l'interprétation des données générales relatives à l'urbanisation, l'emploi et les transports à San Salvador, débouchant sur la réalisation d'une vingtaine d'entretiens... Ces entretiens auprès des femmes actives révèlent certaines richesses de leur mobilité. Elles seraient les seules personnes à avoir «une pratique gratuite du centre», dont les contours et la fréquentation varient d'un sujet à l'autre. Le «lèche-vitrine» serait une dérive mise à profit pour oublier l'emprise des rôles et des clivages dominants. Et le trajet de retour, plus lent et variable, faciliterait un certain sentiment de liberté et d'autonomie hors de cercles contraignants du travail et du foyer.Conditions matérielles et perceptions symboliques, soumission aux transports en commun et réappropriation de leurs déficiences, dépendance structurelle et pratiques d'autonomisation sont des pistes qui éclairent ces modes de vie d'une façon originale. (E. Henry)
Title: Behavioral women's mobility in popular districts of San Salvador (El Salvador)
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This paper presents some results of a research dealing with low income people behavior in a metropolitan city of Latin America: San Salvador.
It analyses the women's mobility, a topic for which the literature is weak, in a special context of civil war which has a high impact on the running of this metropolitan city.
The research was based on about twenty interviews of employed women which reveal some unknownnd rich aspects of their mobility.
It appears that they would be the only persons who have a "free practice of the central business district".
To go window shopping would be taking their mind out of the influence of the dominant parts and rifts of the San Salvador society.
The return trip, the slowest, would induce some feeling of freedom and self-sufficiency, out of the restricting circles of the work place and of the home.
The San Salvador working class women's way of life may be lighted on by several original orientations: high dependence of public transport and appropriation of their deficiencies, structural dependence and practices of self-sufficiency, bad standards of life and life symbolic perceptions of the urban space.
Dans une situation particulière s'il en est, celle de la guerre civile du Salvador qui perturbe jusqu'au fonctionnement de sa capitale, cette étude aborde un aspect original, important et rarement évoqué de la mobilité des secteurs populaires en Amérique Latine, celui des femmes.
Il s'agit d'une démarche exploratoire basée sur l'interprétation des données générales relatives à l'urbanisation, l'emploi et les transports à San Salvador, débouchant sur la réalisation d'une vingtaine d'entretiens.
Ces entretiens auprès des femmes actives révèlent certaines richesses de leur mobilité.
Elles seraient les seules personnes à avoir «une pratique gratuite du centre», dont les contours et la fréquentation varient d'un sujet à l'autre.
Le «lèche-vitrine» serait une dérive mise à profit pour oublier l'emprise des rôles et des clivages dominants.
Et le trajet de retour, plus lent et variable, faciliterait un certain sentiment de liberté et d'autonomie hors de cercles contraignants du travail et du foyer.
Conditions matérielles et perceptions symboliques, soumission aux transports en commun et réappropriation de leurs déficiences, dépendance structurelle et pratiques d'autonomisation sont des pistes qui éclairent ces modes de vie d'une façon originale.
(E.
Henry).

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