Paula Soto Villagrán holds a Master's and Doctorate in Anthropological Sciences from the UAM-Iztapalapa, where she also completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Human Geography. She currently works as a professor and researcher in the Department of Sociology of the Division of Social Sciences and Humanities at that institution, participating in the area of Space and Society. She is a member of the National System of Researchers (SNII) level 2. Her main research topics are: women's daily mobility, geographies of care, fear and sexual violence in public spaces, and mobile methodologies for the study of urban space. 

Research project as CALAS fellow (Knowledge Laboratory “A region in motion: Accelerated human mobilities and multiple circulations in Latin America and the Caribbean”)

Title: Moving to care and caring in motion. Weaving spaces and relationships of care through mobility

Abstract: If we consider that movement weaves together cultural and power dimensions that reflect the ways in which gender is simultaneously constructed on space and time and has effects on them, mobilities can help us rethink the mobile dimensions in the production of spaces. I believe that the notion of “mobilities of care” is key, on the one hand, to questioning mobilities from a feminist perspective across multiple scales, temporalities, and geographies, from the scales of transnational mobility related to care to everyday urban mobilities. On the other hand, it highlights displacements, meanings of movement, bodies in motion, emotional and affective aspects, and care strategies that together account for a gender perspective that intertwines the power of imaginaries, practices, and experiences of mobility to reconfigure spaces in motion.
The proposed research will contribute to research axis 2 of the laboratory “Space in motion: mobility and the reconfiguration of space, as well as the creation of new spaces,” as it analyzes how women's mobility enables the configuration of new spaces and mobile places based on care relationships in the city. From this perspective, this project seeks to make an original contribution in three dimensions: (i) through ways of thinking about gender and care mobility from an intersectional perspective; (ii) through mobile qualitative approaches; and (iii) through mobile places that are configured in the specific experience of care mobilities. 
 The project “Moving to care and caring in motion. Weaving spaces and care relationships through mobility” proposes to construct a theoretical-methodological discussion that supports the concept of mobilities and mobile spatialities that are configured in the embodied experiences of care mobility that women deploy at different scales and mobile places (physical, lived, and represented).

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