Mediações: Revista de Ciências Sociais (Dec 2004)

Como ser uma criança na calçada: pontuações etnográficas sobre algumas crianças em situação de rua na cidade do Recife

  • Liana Lewis

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5433/2176-6665.2004v9n2p233
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 2
pp. 233 – 248

Abstract

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The present work seeks to understand how the public space, more precisely the pavement, is claimed by children in street situation at Recife's city at the same time that it ritualises and normatizes their behaviour. Taking the body as a semantic vector, since it is through it that the man interacts with the space, I explore how the pavement socially positions these boys as transgressors, minimising the possibility of a better life perspective.

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