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| Author(s): |
Walter Varanda
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Saúde Pública (FSP/CIR) |
| Defense date: | 2009-04-30 |
| Examining board members: |
Rubens de Camargo Ferreira Adorno;
Camila Giorgetti;
Delma Pessanha Neves;
Chiara Gemma Pussetti;
Maria Antonieta da Costa Vieira
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| Advisor: | Rubens de Camargo Ferreira Adorno |
| Field of knowledge: | Health Sciences - Collective Health |
| Indexed in: | Banco de Dados Bibliográficos da USP-DEDALUS; Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações - USP |
| Location: | Universidade de São Paulo. Biblioteca/Centro de Referência e Informação da Faculdade de Saúde Pública |
| Abstract | |
The use of alcohol and other drugs affect the majority of the residents of the streets in the city of São Paulo and assume functions and meanings inherent to the situation in which they are, understood as situation of social liminality. The ethnography showed individual trajectories, dynamics of groups of homeless and their interaction with the networks of assistance, characterizing the alcohol and drugs on the street circuits as resources for survival and operators of reactive process against the social apartheid. We used documental analysis, participant observation, and interviews with residents of the streets, coordinators of social institutions and informants from other social contexts. The use of alcohol and drugs increases the stigma of guilt and punishment of people for their situation. These appear in relations with help public institutions, references in the media and justifications of the shortcomings of public policies. This use, abusive or not, serves mainly in the mediation of social and survival relationships on the street and, moreover, allows the navigability in emotional memories through regressive processes, relief of suffering, both physical and mental, and experiences with the self in altered states of consciousness. Understanding this use from the perspective of liminality allows the displacement analysis of pathogen and the vulnerability of the subject to the social drama experienced. In view of these dramas, drug use is built under the system of beliefs and representations of the subject, which can be reconfigured by the development of consciousness, autonomy and self-control (AU) | |