PIMENTEL, Lidia Valesca Bonfim. Vidas nas ruas, corpos em percurso no cotidiano da cidade. 2005. 187f. Tese (Doutorado em Sociologia) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Departamento de Ciências Sociais, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia, Fortaleza-CE, 2005 / Submitted by Liliane oliveira (morena.liliane@hotmail.com) on 2011-12-01T18:21:11Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2005_TESE_LVBPRODRIGUES.pdf: 5587086 bytes, checksum: e919f65e88f85eef79ed446f16ad0724 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Maria Josineide Góis(josineide@ufc.br) on 2012-01-09T12:47:05Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2005_TESE_LVBPRODRIGUES.pdf: 5587086 bytes, checksum: e919f65e88f85eef79ed446f16ad0724 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2012-01-09T12:47:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2005_TESE_LVBPRODRIGUES.pdf: 5587086 bytes, checksum: e919f65e88f85eef79ed446f16ad0724 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005 / This work comes from an ethnographic study of the homeless people in downtown Fortaleza. It aims at understanding their point through the city. The study’s starting point is the homeless person’s body, which is conceived as a prime unit of social experiences. It is their body that goes throughout the city, carrying the marks of a street sociability. The practices studied do not hawed; the are shaped by their own rules of behavior, which, according to De Certeau (1996), in a tactical watt affect the instutionalized forms of power. Thus silently and invisibly, these practices builds new forms of everyday life. The city is the stage where these streets are performed. In this study , downtown is understood as throbbing organism, a space that aggregates many social actors. There the homeless are invisible exceptat night, where they come together in fron of the shops´ doors. A description of the main place occupied by the homeless is presented in a way that such places are understood to be defined territories by usage (Ferrara, 1999). Lastly, the ways followed by the homeless people are narrated on the bassist of their singularity, but they also are aggregated according to their nature, be is survival delirious, of female conditions. / Este trabalho é fruto de um estudo etnográfico sobre os moradores de rua do Centro de Fortaleza, com o objetivo de compreender os seus percursos pela cidade. O estudo partiu do corpo, concebendo-o como unidade primordial das experiências sociais. É o corpo que atravessa a cidade, carregando as marcas de uma sociabilidade tipicamente de rua. São práticas desprovidas de um poder centralizado, formulados por regras de condutas próprias, que, segundo De Certeau (1996), golpeia de forma tática as formas de poder instituídos e, silenciosamente, de modo invisível, constróem novas formas de viver no cotidiano. A cidade é palco no qual se desenrolam as experiências de rua. No estudo, o Centro da Cidade é compreendido como espaço agregador de vários atores sociais, é um organismo pulsante. No Centro, o morador de rua é invisível, podendo ser visto somente durante a noite, quando ocupam as marquises das lojas. Realizou-se uma descrição dos principais lugares ocupados pelos moradores de rua, compreendendo-os como territórios demarcados a partir de uma usança (Ferrara, 1999). Por fim, os percursos dos moradores de rua são narrados a partir de sua singularidade, mas agregados a partir da natureza do percurso seja de sobrevivência, dos delírios, da condição feminina.

Homelessness is a socio-pathological phenomenon, caused by the inability of an individual to deal with crisis situations and leading to the lost of relationships but also the material environment. As a result of the above, the social exclusion of the individuals gradually becomes unchangeable. Here, Pěnkava (2013) describes the vertical decline within the social stratification, which brings a deep frustration and in a number of cases leads to resignation on the efforts to deal efficiently with the unfavorable situation. The causes of such collapse are multifactorial and hence, in order to solve them there is cooperation on the level of multidisciplinary teams needed. However, numerous issues are currently being solved by social workers only, who in many cases are forced to replace experts in fields such as law, psychology, pedagogy of leisure time, geriatry or medicine. The central theme of the dissertation is dealing with the possibilities and limitations of people without home in old age living in the Capital City of Prague. Considering the factors of age, the diversity in satisfying their needs and the associated risks involved, is this a specific group of people that is, moreover, at immediate risk to their lives and health. As a consequence, the dignity of these people is being hurt not only...

The following text deals with homeless movement in an urban area and is based on a qualitative field research carried out in the capital of the Czech Republic, Prague, from the early November 2014 until the beginning of May 2015. The research of such a sensitive topic as homelessness demands much higher attention, with regard to respecting the ethical rules of the field research and publication of materials gained. Therefore, my thesis deals with the motives of their movement usually based on meeting basic human needs, and with general characteristics of locations they stay in. This information clarify why homeless people move in the city without revelation of exact maps of their location, because this may endanger my informants.