{"id":123,"date":"2018-07-10T19:20:01","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T00:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/valencia-spain-summer-2018\/?p=123"},"modified":"2018-07-10T19:20:01","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T00:20:01","slug":"bici-y-habitus-en-valencia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/valencia-spain-summer-2018\/2018\/07\/10\/bici-y-habitus-en-valencia\/","title":{"rendered":"Bici y Habitus En Valencia"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Yesterday I rented a bicycle for the next two weeks in Valencia. In so doing, I fulfilled my vision of living and working in Valencia. The bicycle is the perfect way to travel in this city. I cannot tell you the joy that I feel as I ride down the long bicycle paths that honeycomb the streets of Valencia, running parallel to both pedestrian and automobile traffic.<\/p>\n

When the students saw my newly rented “bici” after class,
\nOne told me “Professor don’t hurt yourself” as I narrowly turned around, just missing the cement wall near the university. :). Another asked if this is like re-living childhood. It really is – and this thought brings to mind a sociological concept that I have been noticing every day in Valencia: Habitus.<\/p>\n

Habitus refers to embodied “positions and dispositions” that organize our world view (Bourdieu 1977). Habitus is a conservative force in our lives and in our bodies – bringing us back to the feelings and memories from our earliest societal interactions – typically with our families. How we feel and react when we encounter a new situation is shaped by our habitus.<\/p>\n

I have watched the students work hard at their internships and encounter new foods, new languages and new situations. During this all, I noticed frequent references to those conditions of their childhood or early life calling to them. Despite Valencia’s reputation for phenomenal food, one student said to me, “I’m sick of rice – can we just have some plantains?”<\/p>\n

This call from our personal past surfaces in unexpected ways while spending time in another culture. In so doing it helps reveal who we are. For me – the bici – brings an embodied sense of freedom in the world and memories of flying through my childhood neighborhood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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