On becoming ‘la sombra/the shadow’

Abstract

This article proposes a hybrid and interdisciplinary methodology to understand the experience of mobility in the city of Santiago de Chile, from a phenomenological point of view. This methodology is the “shadowing” of mobility practices, which consists of accompanying the travelers in their everyday journeys and occupations for a period of time. Thus, an attempt to capture the ways in which mobility in cities is experienced by its inhabitants is carried out. In the first section, a description of the different ways in which mobile methods have evolved is presented; secondly, the ethnographic approach adopted in this research is explained, and finally, the article concludes with the description and analysis of a case of study.