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| Author(s): |
Alexandre Esposito
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Assis. 2022-09-21. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Faculdade de Ciências e Letras. Assis |
| Defense date: | 2022-07-27 |
| Advisor: | José Sterza Justo |
| Abstract | |
Present life tends to be increasingly affected by forces constituted in the economical, social, political, cultural and psychological dimensions that incite displacement, movement and transit of human beings and of material and immaterial objects from their world. Among the several subjectivations of such forces that cause mobility, one of the most radical can be highlighted: the wandering life lived by highway wanderers. It is characterized by an aimless walk, without direction and planning. Highway wanderers roam, without a destination, along highway shoulders, carrying their few belongings in a sack on their backs or in any rough and improvised handcart. During the long daily walks or in improvised overnight stays under bridges, bus stops shelters or outside, in the adjacencies of highway shoulders, they face several risks of accidents that threaten their lives. The goal of this project was to raise and comprehend, together with the wanderers themselves, the main risks they identify in this way of life, their causes, conditions they consider as of major vulnerability, as well as the measures they take to protect themselves. For this purpose, using the adrift research method, incursions on São Paulo state highways were done, without previous routes defined, for the localization, approach and interviews with the wanderers, on the roadsides, focusing, specifically, the risks and dangers faced by them in this form of life. The results were analyzed through the content analysis method, and presented and discussed in thematic categories. They presented in their reports that their greatest fears are associated with approaching unknown people who can rob or attack them in some way, interrupting or hindering their continuity of their walks. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 18/10161-5 - Highway wanderers and risks of wandering life |
| Grantee: | Alexandre Espósito |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |