Researcher Paz Concha participated in the launching of the book “Corporality and Mobility”.

The book “Corporality and Mobility”, edited by Daniel Muñoz, researcher at the Housing Institute of the University of Chile; Gerardo Mora, UC Design academic; and ESOC member, Paz Concha, was launched at the UC Institute of Urban and Territorial Studies.

The book, which aims to study everyday mobility from the role of the body in this process, was born under the auspices of the Research Network on Body and Mobility (RICMO), which seeks to consolidate the relationship between the study of the body and everyday mobility as a line of research with a more qualitative approach.

In the work, published in the collection Estudios Urbanos UC and RIL Editores, 13 authors participated and analyzed various topics related to daily mobility. It is divided into three sections: one of more conceptual reflections; another of description of daily mobility practices; and a third part on methodological elements that can be useful to understand this process of daily mobility from the body.

“I am co-author of three chapters that would come to be the introduction; a chapter with Francisca Avilés based on my postdoctoral research and that is about moving in atmospheres, it is called ‘Experience of change and transition in Santiago markets’; one with Cristóbal Vergara who was my master’s student when I was teaching at the UC,” explains Concha.

The book received support from the UC Institute of Urban Studies, the COES center, the Movyt Millennium Nucleus and the UC School of Design.