An infrastructure of embodied practices: How disabled people become part of public transport in Santiago de Chile
Daniel Muñoz
Points of interest:
The article analyzes the experiences and practices of public transport use by people with disabilities.
The article calls for recognition of invisible efforts, and transport planning to adopt perspectives that value and consider these “ways of doing” in their urban design and management practices.
The findings allow to describe transport infrastructures as an assemblage of bodies and materialities, inviting to recognize people with disabilities not only as beneficiaries of transport, but as constituent subjects of it.
The article was based on ethnographic data and multimodal video analysis.
Multiple ways in which the bodily practices of persons with disabilities are part and support the functioning of public transport in Santiago are examined.
Notes:
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Muñoz, D. (2026). An infrastructure of embodied practices: How disabled people become part of public transport in Santiago de Chile. Urban Studies, 0(0).