Outras escritas urbanas: o (in)visível como observador

• Autor(a) principal: Almeida, Rafael Tavares dos Santos
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFG
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/12953
• topic: Invisíveis; Cidade; Contra-taxonomia; População de rua; Quebrada; Quebrada; Invisible; City; Counter-taxonomy; Homeless; CIENCIAS HUMANAS

This dissertation aims to investigate the relationship between the homeless population and the city, with a focus on the social invisibility that surrounds these individuals. It is important to highlight that many people are experiencing homelessness, forming a growing contingent of vulnerable individuals who suffer the consequences of life production and reproduction within and outside the capitalist system. Social invisibility is a phenomenon that arises due to fetishistic and reifying relationships that place commodities as supreme, which obscures the reality of individuals. However, this scenario is paradoxical because the term "invisible" suggests something or someone that is not seen, which diverges from the high visibility of vulnerable individuals who are encountered daily. In this sense, the objective of this work is to explore the realm of social invisibility and understand how collective intersubjective erasure occurs in the city. To achieve this objective, a qualitative approach is adopted with theoretical and methodological foundations in ethnomethodology. Two tools created from ethnomethodology are used: flâneur listening as a research method and countertaxonomy as a presentation of the results. Flâneur listening consists of listening to the stories of people experiencing homelessness in random encounters, focusing on the homeless population residing in the city of Goiânia. Based on the analysis of social invisibility, an exploration of the city's blind spots is proposed by identifying different characteristics of characters and spaces, their openings, their representations, their limits, and possibilities, understanding them as blind spots of the city where alternative possibilities take hold. To accomplish this, the construction of a countertaxonomy is essential - an inverse deductive movement - one that names certain types of invisibility so that after naming them, it becomes possible to identify characteristics and similarities that apply to the invisible. Additionally, the intention is to analyze the agency promoted by these spaces and reflect on the extent to which they constitute counter-hegemonic architectures and alternatives for inhabiting. The perspective of this dissertation departs from a deconstruction of the blind spots of hegemonic phenomenology, allowing an analysis of the unseen and considering the subjective experiences of these invisibilized subjects in their lived and shared world, as well as the meanings they attribute to their experiences related to the city. It is important to emphasize that both the city and modernity produce a society of disappearance, where not only does the concrete body vanish, leaving traces throughout the city, but it goes further and replaces it with that which is made to be seen. Thus, this research seeks to contribute to the understanding of the relationship between the homeless population and the city, as well as the broader debate on social invisibility and its implications in contemporaneity