Next Thursday, February 1, we invite you to the defense of the doctoral thesis Actors, disability and interdependence in the mobility of care in Bogotá , by Sonia Jimena Murillo Munar, doctoral student at GEMOTT.
The city is composed of multiple actors, and one of the main current challenges is to guarantee equitable access for all to the urban services and opportunities it offers. In this search, the urban mobility of people who care and those who require care to move is essential, even more so if we consider the cumulative inequalities that gender, purchasing power and disability can represent.
The thesis starts from questions such as, who cares and moves for care in the city? Who are those people who require help or accompaniment to move around Bogotá? And what impact do sociocultural factors such as gender and economic condition have on this mobility, and on the relationships between caregivers and care recipients?
In response, this thesis investigates the mobility of caregivers and cared-for subjects, based on data from the 2019 Bogotá Mobility Survey, and through a quantitative approach that allows a broad view of care dynamics, as a starting point for new research in the field.
It is based on three case studies, which explore the mobility of care from its different actors, first emphasizing the mobility of caregivers, then the mobility of cared subjects with emphasis on those who present a disability. It then explores the interdependence between them, and the incidence of the environment on the mobility conditions of people with disabilities. The results contribute from theoretical conceptualization and statistics to the understanding of the mobility of care, the relationships of interdependence between caregivers and cared subjects, and the incidence of the built environment.
Photography: Paola de Grenet.
