A Story on Every Street: Limoeiro/PE's Relations with Homeless Population

Abstract

This article aims to understand the meaning given by the inhabitants of Limoreiro-PE to the living place of the homeless population in the city's daily life. For this, we address a conception of urban spaces as the places producing affections, memories, visible in everyday life. The study has a qualitative and interventional character. We used the method of clinical cartography to collect and construct narratives through intervention/research modalities such as the narrative interview and the journal. The collaborating participants were inhabitants of Limoeiro-PE and the methodology for the analysis of the collected material was the "Analytic of Meaning", proposed by Critelli. Through cartographic action, phenomena such as the practice of different forms of violence directed to the homeless population, the coexistence of relations of social visibility and invisibility, and the possible ways of care to existing policies and struggles were found. From this, the clinical action in everyday life in interface with the right to health is brought as a possibility for intervention, allowing the visualization of vulnerability contexts and the understanding that the conception of health must be in interrelation with the demands of social, political and existential order.