Interview with Alejandra Lazo-Corvalán “Gender and rurality from the lens of the spatial mobility paradigm in the South-Austral of Chile”

Abstract

This work presents an interview with the Anthropologist and PhD in Geography Alejandra Lazo-Corvalán, academic at the Universidad de Los Lagos, Osorno in the South of Chile. Based on a theoretical, methodological and empirical work accumulated in a consolidated career as a researcher in the field of spatial and daily mobilities of inhabitants of Southern Chile, particularly in island territorial contexts such as the Chiloé Archipelago or the Calbuco Islands, we will review contents associated with how women design, perform and deploy strategies to make their spatial mobilities possible in places characterized by isolation, low connectivity and  accessibility to services of general interest. Added to this are cultural variables linked to gender roles historically assigned to women, such as care work and domestic management. Finally, through this dialogue, we will explore the theoretical and methodological reports from which we can think about the gender experiences crossed by rural contexts and a daily life marked by the obligatory of many mobilities.