Inequality has risen to the top of the development agenda. But there remain large gaps in understandings of inequalities, both among scholars and among citizens. People rarely know where they fit in the income distribution, and have still less understanding of what it means to live a life at different points of the distribution – especially in a country as unequal as Mexico.
This project led by Dr Paul Segal aimed to produce a multidisciplinary and multimedia representation of inequality in Mexico, combining quantitative data, qualitative data, and visual representations in photographs and film. The academic researchers worked with journalists from Periodismo CIDE, a leading academic school of journalism in Mexico, and Chilango, a journalist group, to interview people from across the income spectrum to explore their everyday experiences and their understandings of inequality. Photographs and film captured aspects of their homes, neighbourhoods, the food they eat, and the public spaces in which they interact.
