ABSTRACT
Urban mobility is a topic explored by an ample academic literature, most of which, though, is dedicated to its supposedly technical aspects, with a minority of studies examining its sociopolitical dimensions. The present analysis fits into the latter category. Nonetheless, over the last two decades, this approach has grown in volume in countries belonging to the Global North and South alike, including studies of the relations between urban mobility and social exclusion (see Lucas 2004 and 2011), social stratification (see Vasconcellos 1999) and poverty (see Salon & Gulyani 2010). In general, these studies are associated with public policy frameworks, political-institutional phenomena and social protests and the interpretation that the question has been insufficiently explored in the North (the case of Salon & Gulyani 2010). 1
