The homeless artisan. work as resistance to street life
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https://doi.org/10.5433/2176-6665.2019v24n1p306Keywords:
Craftsmanship, Resistance, Homeless, Subjectivation, WorkAbstract
To live on the street is to experience a form of domination that reduces the homeless to a situation of political-ontological inferiority that brutally diminishes their life possibilities. Due to this, several of these individuals resist, developing processes of subaltern subjectivation by which they refuse this political-ontological disqualification and try to produce themselves in other manners. One of these techniques of subjectivation is craftsmanship. Craftsmanship allows several homeless to create relative lines of escape from the domination of life on the street, thus alleviating it for a moment. In spite of this, craftsmanship is fundamentally limited as a means of resistance. As such, it is incapable of originating processes of structural transformation that eliminate homelessness.References
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BAUMAN, Zygmunt. Work, consumerism and the new poor. London: Open University Press, 2009.
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FOUCAULT, Michel. The confession of the flesh. In: GORDON, Colin (Org.). Power/knowledge: selected interviews and other writings, 1972-1977. New York: Pantheon Books, 1980. p. 194-228.
FOUCAULT, Michel. História da sexualidade – I: a vontade de saber. Lisboa: Relógio D’Água, 1994.
FOUCAULT, Michel. É preciso defender a sociedade: curso no Collège de France (1975-1976). Lisboa: Livros do Brasil, 2006.
FOUCAULT, Michel. Security, territory, population: lectures at the Collège de France, 1977-1978. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
FOUCAULT, Michel. Nascimento da biopolítica. Lisboa: Edições 70, 2010.
FOUCAULT, Michel. Surveiller et punir: naissance de la prison. Paris: Gallimad, 2012a.
FOUCAULT, Michel. Du gouvernement des vivants: cours au Collège de France, 1979-1980. Paris: EHESS, Gallimard, Seuil, 2012b.
GEREMEK, Bronislaw. La potence ou la pitié. L’Europe et les pauvres du Moyen Âge à nos jours. Paris: Gallimard, 2010.
GOWAN, Teresa. Excavating globalization from street level. Homeless men recycle their pasts. In: BURAWOY, Michael et al. Global ethnography: forces, connections and imaginations in a postmodern world. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. p. 74-105.
GOWAN, Teresa. Hobos, hustlers and backsliders: homeless in San Francisco. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010.
GROVES, Julian McAllister; CHANG, Kimberly A. Romancing resistance and resisting romance: ethnography and the construction of power in the Filipina domestic worker community in Hong Kong. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Newbury Park, v. 28, n. 3, p. 235-265, 1999.
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RELVAS, Eunice. Esmola e degredo: mendigos e vadios em Lisboa (1835-1910). Lisboa: Livros Horizonte, 2002.
SCHMITT, Carl. Political theology: four chapters on the concept of sovereignty. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.
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SCOTT, James. Weapons of the weak: everyday forms of peasant resistance. New York: Yale University Press, 1985.
SCOTT, James. Domination and the arts of resistance: hidden transcripts. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990.
SENNETT, Richard. The craftsman. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008.
SENNETT, Richard; COBB, Jonathan. The hidden injuries of class. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1993.
SNOW, David; ANDERSON, Leon. Down on their luck: a study of homeless street people. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
TERROLLE, Daniel. Du mirage de l’urgence sociale à la réalité anthropologique du terrain: Un bilan de recherche sur les sans-abri sur plus d’une décennie. Les Cahiers de l’Actif, Paris, v. 344, p. 21-37, 2005.
TERROLLE, Daniel. Gerer les pauvres. Tsantsa, Bern, v. 11, p. 13-22, 2006.
THELEN, Lionel. L’exil de soi: sans-abri d’içi et d’ailleurs. Bruxelles: Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis, 2006.
WEBER, Max. A ética protestante e o espírito do capitalismo. Lisboa: Presença, 2005.
ZENEIDI-HENRY, Djemila. Les SDF et la ville: géographie du savoir-survivre. Paris: Bréal, 2002.
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ALDEIA, João. The homeless artisan. work as resistance to street life. Mediações - Revista de Ciências Sociais, Londrina, v. 24, n. 1, p. 306–334, 2019. DOI: 10.5433/2176-6665.2019v24n1p306. Disponível em: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/mediacoes/article/view/32763. Acesso em: 22 jul. 2024.
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