Pobreza, ressentimentos e luta por reconhecimento: um estudo na Ilha Grande dos Marinheiros – Porto Alegre

Abstract

This study concerns the dynamic of the trajectories of poor people, examining the expectancies and values that give them motivation for a struggle process for recognition. We discuss the behavior of these workers, who face hard working and social conditions and struggle for dignity without accepting their situation in an apathetic manner. Studies have evidenced that the lives of the poor might produce reflection and also the struggle to change the way poor people are seen by society. It seems consensual that this change presumes or engenders a struggle for recognition, in which one aims leaving this place considered humiliating, of obstruction, to get to a more humanized place and having possibility of talking about oneself. To understand this dynamic, the theoretical literature of the dissertation includes authors that articulate an objective analysis of the social structure with the subjectivity of the agents involved, employing concepts such as precarious habitus, social humiliation, resentment and struggl