WAYS OF LIFE OF THE HOMELESS POPULATION: DISPUTES AND RUPTURES IN THE EVERYDAY LIFE OF THE CITY, IN PETROLINA-PE
Homeless Population; City; Ethnography; Daily; Public policy;
In this study, we propose to reflect on the occupation of city space by the homeless population, discussing this phenomenon beyond the place of need and deprivation. The possibility of reinventing physical and existential territories that the homeless population announces is considered, by displacing the identity constructions instituted in the relationships that dictate the universe of work and home. The research was carried out in the city of Petrolina/PE and took shape from the general objective of investigating the ways in which the street population reinvents itself and the territory in the space of the city. Its specific objectives were: 1 - To characterize the ways of life of the homeless in their daily lives in the city; 2 - Discuss the relationships established between the homeless population and the city space in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic; 3 - Know the relationship of the homeless population with the devices of the health network and other networks; 4 - Map knowledge and resistance practices woven by the homeless population in relation to the territory. For this, we approach ethnography and cartography as methods, using participant observation/observer participation by monitoring the activities of Consultório na Rua, for approximately six months, from July to December 2020, composing the from this, field diaries used for the weaving of the analyzes that unfolded from this experience. From these reflections, 3 analytical axes were constructed in which theory and field intersect, bringing experiences lived in the territory, being these 1- Street Population and the normatization of the city space, 2- Street population and daily life: disputes and ruptures in a city in the northeastern hinterland, 3 - Public policies and reinventions of care in the city: networks and daily life of the Street Population in Petrolina-PE. We know, therefore, how the city influences the conformation of the homeless population and its ordering in a city in the Pernambuco hinterland, while reflecting on how the homeless population also produces the city, through the subversion of standardized meanings, from of inventions that populate everyday life and that seek to meet the needs and desires of this audience. It was also reflected on the practices of public policies aimed at the homeless in Petrolina, discussing possibilities that these are not reduced to the structuring of services as control devices.