“Pegue a visão”: dinâmicas do fazer a rua como moradia na cidade de Salvador

Abstract

This thesis is the result of an ethnographic research about the relation between homeless people and the city, having as object the practice of making the street a place for living, and with the objective of apprehending the tactics and the production of the experience of the city involved in this process. Methodological and analytical resources were adopted to investigate the homeless people’s narratives as well as their urban trajectories which produce a territory of permanence in the streets in the tension between permanence and inherent circulation to this form of insertion in the city. The use of these resources allowed the investigation of their practice to go beyond the daily life and the street itself, thus disclosing the nexus between ruptures, habitational displacements, occupational routes, sociabilities, production of subjectivity and the production of the city that cross the urban experiences of these subjects. Departing from the privileged interlocution with the ones who make the streets a place for living, the thesis which is an outcome of this research, takes as main themes the narratives and urban experiences of one of the women who were interlocutors: it is through her and her permanent territory that an “insight” about the street, the urban life and the city is drawn, being possible to glimpse distinct knowledge, places, spaces and territories where they circulate, the contemporary urban experience of the street in the city of Salvador.