A cidade como construção moderna: um ensaio a respeito de sua relação com a saúde e as "qualidades de vida"

Adorno, Rubens de Camargo Ferreira

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“…Local nuances of different informal construction neighbourhoods were reduced to operational concepts under PERpoverty, delinquency and crimeand housing policies materialised as measures to act upon and govern the population (Burchell et al, 1991). The hygienist objective, which had pervaded housing policies since the beginning of the twentieth century (Cachado, 2011) and that had justified the intervention in these territories and the populations living there, was the foundation behind the idea of Lisbon as a modern city (Adorno, 1999;Wacquant, 2008). The programme succeeded in providing for new homes, but often failed to solve the vulnerability associated with living in informal neighbourhoods, as this paper will show.…”

Section: The Production Of Vulnerability and Suffering On The Margins Of Lisbonmentioning

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“Lending a hand”: the well-intentioned work of a non-profit organisation on the outskirts of neoliberal Lisbon

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2019

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This paper focuses on the mental health of two immigrants supported by a non-profit organisation on the outskirts of Lisbon, Dona Lígia and Albino1. The ethnography sets out the discourse of these users who are also residents of Terraços da Ponte, a social housing neighbourhood, and the workers who try to help them in the context of the non-profit organisation's endeavours.Using semi-directive interviews, life stories and data collected during eleven months of intensive ethnographic fieldwork, the intersections between the non-profit's users and its employees are presented and critically discussed in this article. The space and conditions which these individuals inhabit, as well as the history of the old Quinta do Mocho (the slum where they used to live before being rehoused in the new neighbourhood), are central in the analysis of how local subjectivities are formed and negotiated. The paper shows that interventions merely focused on trying to 'lend a hand' may do more harm than good to the communities, because the efforts employed by these non-profits disregard the causes producing illness and suffering in the first place. Governing the nation, one household at a timeQuinta do Mocho was considered for decades as one of the largest informal neighbourhoods in the country. Located in Loures, a municipality in the Metropolitan Area of Lisbon, it was inhabited by almost four thousand individuals, most of them adult and of African origin. When in 1974 a residential project at Quinta do Mocho was suddenly abandoned without being completed due to the insolvency of the real estate company responsible for the construction of these buildings, its first inhabitants began to arrive. The influx of residents skyrocketed in the early nineties, a period of increasing need of unskilled labourers for public works. Seeking to 1 The identity of the users, the non-profit and its workers are protected by the use of pseudonyms. All the participants willingly contributed to this study and gave formal consent.

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Section: The Production Of Vulnerability and Suffering On The Margins Of Lisbonmentioning

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“Lending a hand”: the well-intentioned work of a non-profit organisation on the outskirts of neoliberal Lisbon

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2019

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“…The increasing pathologization of behaviors based on precarious housing conditions and the belief that changing them would also discipline the lives of those targeted by these same programs, has led to a proliferation of local initiatives and institutions which direct and indirectly exert control over citizens' bodies and behaviors [18,19]. These projects frequently focus on health as the ideal governing technology, which has been "used as a shorthand for the capacity of the modern self to be transformed through the deployment of various rational practices of self" [16] (p. 45).…”

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“I Don’t Have the Nerve to Tell These People That I Cannot Help Them!”: Vulnerability, Ethnography, and Good Intentions

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The nonprofit organization where this ethnography took place, driven by the maxim ”lending a hand”, was forced to reduce its efforts to what it considered essential, at a time when austerity was beginning to take shape in Portugal. The analysis of the logics employed to distribute food to the neediest proved to be critical to the understanding of the consequences of apparent beneficial actions in this context. The concept of ”vulnerable” is, therefore, discussed considering how it was produced by a legal instrument and how it was reproduced by a local institution, what were the consequences for the subjects involved in this research and also for the vulnerable ethnographer. This investigation was based on several months of intense fieldwork where different ethnographic methodologies were employed in order to grasp the complexities of vulnerability and good intentions, such as participants’ observations and semi-directive interviews. Although this paper focuses on the analysis of the distribution of food support during a later visit to the fieldwork site, it is not the purpose of this paper to discuss issues of food shortage, but to contribute to the debate of care in the context of deprivation and precariousness, anchored in an ethnography where these concepts intertwine with real situations.

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Circuitos de uso de crack nas cidades de São Paulo e Porto Alegre: cotidiano, práticas e cuidado

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É expressamente proibida a comercialização deste documento tanto na sua forma impressa como eletrônica. Sua reprodução total ou parcial é permitida exclusivamente para fins acadêmicos e científicos, desde que na reprodução figure a identificação do autor, título, instituição e ano da tese. RESUMO Introdução: Na atualidade, o uso abusivo de drogas vem tomando dimensões preocupantes, configurando um importante problema de saúde pública. Dentre os aspectos responsáveis pelo agravamento da situação está o surgimento de novas substâncias, as quais vêm alterando as práticas de uso e potencializando seus danos. Dentre elas o derivado da pasta de coca, denominado popularmente de crack, destaca-se pelos prejuízos à saúde dos usuários e devido à associação crescente entre sua utilização e a prática de atos violentos e degradantes, especialmente difundida pelos meios de comunicação. Objetivos: Descrever os circuitos, compreender comportamentos, práticas e significados relacionados ao consumo de crack entre freqüentadores de locais de alta concentração de usuários e vendedores desta droga instalados na região central de duas capitais brasileiras: São Paulo/SP e Porto Alegre/RS. Metodologia: Foi realizado um estudo etnográfico, com observação participante e registro em diário de campo. Resultados: Nos resultados foram descritos os circuitos percorridos pelos usuários, concentrados em partes específicas da região central das duas cidades: Bairro da Luz/SP e nas imediações do Loteamento Santa Terezinha em Porto Alegre/RS, assim como suas dinâmicas, nas quais a concentração de pessoas em situação de rua e suas atividades rotineiras, principalmente em suas interrelações com representantes do poder público, como a polícia e instituições de assistência social, ganham destaque. O cotidiano desses locais caracteriza-se por relações tensas e freqüentes conflitos entre os diferentes atores participantes dos circuitos Pelas características dos contextos de pesquisa, a grande maioria dos usuários apresentava um padrão de uso compulsivo de drogas, especialmente de crack, no qual o auto-cuidado ou quaisquer outras atividades eram secundarizadas frente ao consumo frenético da droga. Apesar disto, identificou-se sujeitos que não apresentavam este padrão de uso, empregando diversas estratégias de autocontrole na administração da droga e também de sobrevivência. Conclusão: Aponta-se a importância de observar elementos como a história da região pesquisada, políticas públicas, questões econômicas e ausência de investimentos sociais e em saúde pública para a compreensão da instalação e permanência dos circuitos pesquisados. Sugere-se que o alto grau de degradação daquelas regiões não seria decorrência apenas das pessoas e atividades exercidas no local, mas principalmente do processo urbano que gerou tal quadro social. Além disso, aponta-se para uma estreita relação entre o contexto sócio-histórico-cultural dos sujeitos e seu padrão de uso de crack, indicando a existência de diferenças internas ao grupo estudado que caracterizam usuários com um mí...

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A cidade como construção moderna: um ensaio a respeito de sua relação com a saúde e as "qualidades de vida"

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“Lending a hand”: the well-intentioned work of a non-profit organisation on the outskirts of neoliberal Lisbon

“Lending a hand”: the well-intentioned work of a non-profit organisation on the outskirts of neoliberal Lisbon

“I Don’t Have the Nerve to Tell These People That I Cannot Help Them!”: Vulnerability, Ethnography, and Good Intentions

Circuitos de uso de crack nas cidades de São Paulo e Porto Alegre: cotidiano, práticas e cuidado

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