Análisis visual de la experiencia urbana adolescente desde la periferia de Ciudad de México

Based on participatory visual research on the urban experience of adolescents living in the periphery of the Metropolitan Area of Mexico City, this article explores the potential of this methodology in urban studies. First, it conceptually addresses the spatialization of adolescence and the multisensory nature of the urban experience as foundations for the use of visual methods in analyzing the relationship between youth and the city. It then describes the fieldwork and implementation of an Audiovisual Urban Narratives Workshop with 21 adolescents from the eastern outskirts of Mexico City. The results focus on the videos produced by the participants (six in total), particularly two of them referring to territorial stigmatization and urban mobility. From their analysis emerge other textures of the urban experience ignored by traditional oral techniques, which allow us to relativize the idea of resistance to territorial stigma and elaborate a more complex emotional cartography of mobility.