Investigar o fenómeno dos sem‑abrigo. Em defesa de uma política ontológica declarada e preocupada

Abstract

Quantification and pathological individualization are the two dominant trends within homelessness research. In acquiring near-exclusive status in this research, they constitute a regime of truth and produce a series of unsustainable negations: they deny that they produce the realities which they study, they deny that other realities may be produced, they delegitimize any alternative methodological perspectives, and render power relationships and domination invisible, thus obscuring the injustice of life on the streets. As an alternative to this regime of truth, this article argues for the mobilization of a declared ontological politics that is concerned with the welfare and dignity of homeless people.

Keywords

• homelessness
• ontological politics
• power
• regime of truth
• research methodology