Street biography: the relationship between homeless people and their personal belongings
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https://doi.org/10.34640/c.t8uma2023fagundessachimsilvanoKeywords:
homeless, objects, biography, symbolic value, memoriesAbstract
The conviviality and closeness with homeless people residing at the Municipal Emergency Reception Centre (CAEM) of Santa Bárbara, in the parish of Arroios, in Lisbon, enabled us to perceive that this vulnerable group (socially, financially, and psychologically), marginalized and socially excluded, have in common relationships of significant symbolic value with their personal objects. With the aim of studying the social history of the things they carry, their meanings and the structure of the trajectories of these social relationships, as well as the construction of values and meanings, this study aims to interview a group of residents and record their experiences through images. personal objects, in order to develop an exhibition that allows us to investigate the meaning of objects within the life history of these individuals. Through semi-structured interviews and photographic recording, we want to tell traces of the biography of homeless people and their objects, to act as a study that brings the academic community closer to this social group and promotes reflections on the unique connections and symbolic with material things.
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