On The Mundane Significance Of Bike Lanes Analysis

In On the Mundane Significance of Bike Lanes, author Luis Vivanco delves deep into the “mundane significance” of bicycle lanes. What Vivanco means by the “mundane significance” of bike lanes is how on the surface level, bike lanes can seem very dull and insignificant, especially in comparison with many other anthropological topics. Vivanco however utilizes a different definition of the word mundane to help explain the truly “earthy” and “world-making” possibilities of everyday human life that expand from simple bike lanes (Brondo 334). Vivanco argues that while bike lanes may be mundane, they represent and provide a gateway into much of the social, classed, gendered, racialized, and ethnicized issues of Bogota. Vivanco explains that bike lanes can be viewed as ways to initiate promising social change throughout a city such as “frictionless connection and flow” and the “integration of social …show more content…
Motherly love is usually seen as a universal thing; however, social context has a prodigious effect on “mother love”, such as the social in Bom Jesus de Mata. In her passage, author Nancy Scheper-Hughes explains how from the outside view, the mothers in Bom Jesus de Mata seemed to not be “motherly” at all; If seen as having no chance of surviving, babies are commonly left alone in the house all day, shut and locked behind a door with little to no attention. In some cases, mothers are even prescribed sleeping pills or tranquilizers to quiet the loud and hungry cries from their dying child (Brondo 146). While people living in first world countries may view these acts performed by the mothers in Bom Jesus de Mata as criminal, as argued by Hughes, the social and environment they are immersed in have a pronounced influence on shaping these mother’s cognitive thoughts and