Abstract
This study aims to scrutinize the disputes surrounding the ways of naming subjects who use the streets as their home in an attempt to understand the nuances of the nets of knowledge and power these historical classifications mobilize. Resorting to an extensive bibliographic, documentary survey and ethnographic research with subjects who inhabit the streets in their different interactions, this study historicizes the classifications attributed to these subjects - from the once vagrant, indigent, beggar to the current homeless situation - problematizing the different repressive and normalizing strategies that continue to affect this public, initiating forms of subjection and modes of resistance. Whether refusing classifications and their stigmas or denying housing as the only and primary political solution, these subjects enunciate other ways of being, living, and relating to the city, occupying other places, which we call “the third margin of institutions.”
Keywords:
Homeless; Public policy; Housing; Biopower; Resistance; Heterotopias