Resumen

OCHOA AYALA, Silvia. Body, gender and space. Automotive systems in the upper middle level. Universitas [online]. 2018, n.28, pp.99-116. ISSN 1390-8634.  https://doi.org/10.17163/uni.n28.2018.05.

The study of school spaces and their interrelationships, with other aspects such as the generic position that, bodies take in different places of their school environment is a field of fruitful study, which, allows to analyze the dynamics of networks power in educational institutions, from a different perspective. The characteristics of each campus are significant for defining their particularities in institutional generality. This qualitative work is based on field notes, interviews and autobiographies in a group of 6th semester, the last of the technical expertise of Automotive Systems CECyT N°7 “Cuauhtémoc” Instituto Politécnico Nacional, México, morning shift. This group was formed with 40 students 32 men and 8 women. Four accounts as performative pictures show the complexity of networks space-gender, where axes intersectional gender, ethnicity, class and age condition, overlap to build situated dynamic of technical specialty.

Palabras clave : Body; space; technical expertise; gender; automotive systems.

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