The market's social life: crossed trajectories in the popular commerce

• Grant number: 17/00153-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Start date: April 10, 2017
• End date: September 30, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Sociology - Other specific Sociologies
• Principal Investigator: Jacob Carlos Lima
• Grantee: Felipe Rangel Martins
• Supervisor: Caroline Knowles
• Host Institution: Centro de Educação e Ciências Humanas (CECH). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Goldsmiths, University of London, England
• Associated to the scholarship: 15/12742-7 - From the informal street vendor to the micro entrepreneur: the disenchantment of the wage condition?, BP.DR

Abstract

This project presents a Research Internship abroad proposition to be carried out at Centre for Urban and Community Research - Goldsmiths College, University of London, under the supervision of the professor Caroline Knowles. During this internship, I aim to employ a more systematic and profound reflection concerning the importance of the networks and the social trajectories in the workers process of engaging in popular commerce activities, and about how it affects the distinct perceptions and experiences of the workers. I start from the observations obtained from the doctoral research in progress towards the work in the popular commerce in Brás, a neighborhood in the center of the city of São Paulo. The research indicates that the process of insertion in the activities of this market - though related to the precariousness of the job market - is not an automatic nor an evident movement, noted the stigma that persists related to these occupations. It makes pertinent the questioning about how and in which situations the subjects insertion in the popular commerce happens. In this sense, being in contact with the researchers and the activities held at Centre for Urban and Community Research (CUCR), of the Goldsmiths College, would contribute both theoretically and methodologically to the development of the investigation pursued in this doctoral research, especially concerning Caroline Knowles works, which punctuates the importance of analyzing the concrete lives inserted in big processes, such as ways of globalization from below. In the duration of this internship, I will dedicate myself to bibliographic research in English language and to the participation in activities and events in the CUCR, in addition to participate in events and conferences from other institutions of the University of London.