This paper offers a theoretical reading on the relationship with everyday, gender mobility and intersectionality. It is based on two research programs in France and Europe (EU 2008-3601). In Europe, particularly France, gender studies in geography have not escaped the lens of everyday life (Louargant, 2003, 2005). This research argues that the choice made by feminist geographers in order to explain motility activities is often based on everyday life processes. Geographers, often confronted with composite spatial objects, however have little explored or formalized the notion of intersectionality. The paper suggests that metropolarities cannot be reduced to practice mobility between home and work, center-periphery (Soja, 2000; Mac Dowell, 1999). It refers to plurality gendered motilities and is significant for identity change, for the relation between space and time. The main hypothesis is that daily life continues to produce gender specific territorialities. It produces values leading to the crossing of cultural boundaries. Indeed, as part of our work on mobility and its impact in France, Europe (Amilhat-Szary, Louargant, 2010), we have shown, using a qualitative methodology (145, life stories with residents and artists). The major results shows that it is in the learning process in the design of the movement are the interconnections, overtaking, crossing and intersectionality.
Gender mobility and everyday spaces: intersectionality in urban space (Europe)