Abstract

In spite of the reforms in the transport system of Santiago de Chile, it appears that the needs of social and spatially marginalised inhabitants are not being met adequately. These poor city dwellers use their options for manoeuvre to offset this inadecuacy in their daily mobility. Their daily mobility practices and their ways of using, subverting or resisting the transport system are critically discussed in terms of the apparatus that shape the system. Three types of practices as power relations are identified - liberation, liberty and libration - and used to characterize forms of daily mobility in a poor district on the southern periphery of Santiago de Chile.