Exploring women’s daily walks

Walking is our main way of inhabiting a territory and therefore, it often determines how we perceive the city. When walking, people move at a speed and scale mediated by the body, which implies a particular relationship with space, time and others. In that regard, the impact of landscape is usually invisible, because people tend not to value what they see every day, since it becomes part of a silent and usual background. We start noticing just when something in the routine changes, like the weather, the season, something in our bodies or the route we take daily. Migrating is, in those terms, a great change, where many aspects change at the same time. Moving through the city is crossed by many other dimensions as well, being gender one of the most relevant.
Exploring Latin American women’s travel experience in Berlin from an intersectional perspective, focusing on gender, migration and landscape, hopes to contribute to gender studies around urban mobility.