The profile of the social subjects who compose the recycling networks in the State of Rio de Janeiro

• Autor(a) principal: Cruz, Uilmer Rodrigues Xavier da
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Cerrados (Montes Claros. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://www.periodicos.unimontes.br/index.php/cerrados/article/view/2363
• topic: Perfil dos catadores; Produção das identidades; Catação e relações de poder; Waste pickers’ profile. Production of identities. Picking and power relationships.; Perfil de los recolectores. Producción de identidades. Recolección y relaciones de poder.

The construction of identity is the result of the relationships between people and spaces, comprising a dynamic in continuous construction. Thus, social subjects have characteristics resulting from their relationships with spaces and the sum of the overlapped and established scales in their multiple relationships and in different ways. Therefore, this study aimed to promote a geographical understanding of social subjects and networks, more specifically, the subjects related to the Recycling Network of Rio de Janeiro (RRERJ), Brazil, regarding the ways they develop their relationships. Thus, the purpose of this research is to understand the power relationships in waste recycling and collection activities, observing the space and the construction of the subjects’ identity who compose the RRERJ, establishing a more detailed profile of these people. In this sense, it is possible to infer that the discussion in this paper can lead to an analysis of working relationships and exploitation of subjects who work in the recycling of recyclable waste, promoting a better understanding of the unequal organization of space.