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Urban space and security are a growing concern since the world’s population is mostly urban. The purpose of this study is to see in what fear, in a context of high crime rate, can impact women’s motility. Seventy-six semi-structured interviews were conducted in Cape Town with female residents of various social categories to address this questioning. The testimonies allowed to discover that women living in the townships, being still mainly poorer black and coloured women, feel more unsafe than wealthier white women. Crime is particularly present in the townships, being part of these women’s every day. However, it is mainly wealthier white women who put in place strategies to avoid crime. Indeed, poorer women do not have the means to adapt their daily geography to their mental maps, forged by fear. Thus, poorer black and coloured women are more mobile than wealthier white women. However, they remain less motile, because of the uneven distribution of public services and crime that implies less access to public transports, less means to access them and less appropriation. |
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