Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: ANAILZA FEITOZA DOS SANTOS MONTEIRO

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : ANAILZA FEITOZA DOS SANTOS MONTEIRO
DATE: 19/11/2025
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: Virtual
TITLE:

Informal Commerce: the working world of credit-selling hawkers

KEY WORDS:

Peddling. Informality. Occupation. Social relations.

PAGES: 70
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Planejamento Urbano e Regional
SUMMARY:

This research addresses the experience of informal trade, following the patterns of the old

mascateação (peddling), taking as its starting point the municipality of Tenente

Ananias/RN and extending throughout the North and Northeast regions of Brazil. It seeks

to understand the logic of local initiatives and how the working population in Brazil was

formed and shaped, from the abolition of slavery to the period of industrialization; the

changes in consumption patterns; and the consequences that these historical events have

brought to the labor market—namely, informality. The general objective is to investigate

how the circuit of informal installment credit trade is reproduced from the municipality

of Tenente Ananias/RN across the states of the North and Northeast, and to identify the

economic and social ties that sustain such activity. The research is guided by three types

of investigation: bibliographical, documentary, and field research. For data collection, the

methodological approach adopted will be the life history method, which will allow

interviewees greater autonomy to narrate their own experiences. An interview guide will

be developed to direct the collection of information from a family of crediaristas

(peddlers) collaborating in this study. In order to verify the reproduction of the activity,

members of the pioneering family in the municipality will be interviewed, investigating

the origin, motivation, evolution, circuits, bonds of trust, networks, reciprocity, and

reproduction of the mascateação activity. The results may confirm the hypotheses that

the studied group belongs to a strong social base, indicating that the reproduction of this

activity depends not only on economic factors but also on networks of sociability that

structure and strengthen the group. This reinforces the notion of territory as a space built

locally through history, social relations, and identity, suggesting the existence of social

rootedness through “strong ties,” where “economic action is socially situated.” Their

actions may be embedded in concrete, continuous systems of social relations—in other

words, in social networks. The group under study serves as a reference for understanding

relationships that multiply throughout Brazil under other forms of informality.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 4881313 - ANDERSON CRISTOPHER DOS SANTOS
Interno - 4246363 - RICHARDSON LEONARDI MOURA DA CAMARA
Externo à Instituição - EMANOEL MÁRCIO NUNES