Bodies, Aspirations and the Politics of Place: Narratives of Three Generations of Women from La Ladrillera (A Brickmaking Community)

In this research, I explore the relations and tensions among People, Places, Work and Development through the narratives of three generations of women from La Ladrillera, a brickmaking community in Mexico. I bring about the reconstruction of the intergenerational transformations of the different places they inhabit: body, home, environment and public arena. They have co-constructed the places according to their needs and aspirations in which educa-tion plays an important role. But at the same time, they have been co-con-structed by the places and the social policies intervening there. I argue that women’s aspirations and social policies follow divergent paths but intersect each other at different times and in different forms catalyzing different processes of transformations through history