(re)Ciclarse en la ciudad — Digital archive

(re)Ciclarse en la ciudad is a collaborative digital archive of urban cycling narratives in Mexico, created through ethnographic, participatory, and dialogic methods. Rooted in everyday experience, each story traces alternative ways of inhabiting the city, often overlooked by dominant discourses. Through cycling as both movement and metaphor, this archive reimagines the city from below.

Publications

The project has resulted in a co-authored book, 3 academic articles, and a book chapter.

Online Digital Archive

The project has published over 30 collaborative stories, edited 12 chronicles, and shared 4 multimedia galleries, from South to North of Mexico.

Collaborative effort

A growing collaborative effort, we have implemented ongoing Writing from the Bicycle workshops (online and in-person), and had presence at the World Bicycle Forum in Mexico City, as in other events. The project has engaged over 80 cyclists and 40 collectives across Mexico, and is now building its digital community through the Digital Archive and an Instagram page.

Selected publications

Books

Zamora, Alejandro & María Ávila. (i2025). Descubrir que hay vida. Narrativas comunitarias de ciclismo urbano en México. Ciudad de México: Laboratorio Nacional de Materiales Orales.

Book chapters

Zamora, Alejandro & María Ávila. (in press). “Narrativas comunitarias de ciclismo urbano en México. Del activismo en la calle al archivo digital –y de regreso”. In Digital Communities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from and about Latin America and the Caribbean. Chapel Hill: A contracorriente/University of North Carolina Press.

Journal articles

Ávila, María & Alejandro Zamora. (2024). “Gendered urban cycling and the ethics of caring: ‘Coming to voice’ in the streets of Tijuana and Oaxaca amidst the patriarcarro”, Gender & Development 32:1-2.

Online publications

Ávila, María. (2022). “Una historia de morras: Vázquez Ojeda, Olimpia, Malinali Plascencia, Jeimi Cuendulain y Jud Limones”, (re)Ciclarse en la ciudad.

Ávila, María & Ivonne Ache. (2022). “El desierto me cobijó: Ivonne Ache”, (re)Ciclarse en la ciudad.

Ávila, María & Jaime García. (2020). “El lenguaje de la bicicleta: Jaime García”, (re)Ciclarse en la ciudad.

Ávila, María & Jorge Humberto Flores. (2019). “A mi ritmo: Jorge Humberto Flores”, (re)Ciclarse en la ciudad.

Ávila, María & Ana Laura Tejada. (2019). “Esta diversidad de amigos: Ana Laura Tejada”, (re)Ciclarse en la ciudad.

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