Abstract

DUARTE, Maria Benedita do Carmo; BRISOLA, Elisa Maria Andrade  and  RODRIGUES, Alexandra Magna. Homeless: social representations of eating and food. Est. Inter. Psicol. [online]. 2021, vol.12, n.2, pp. 57-74. ISSN 2236-6407.  http://dx.doi.org/10.5433/2236-6407.2021v12n2p57.

This article, part of a dissertation research, aims to understand the Social Representations about eating and food for the Homeless Population of a city in the interior of São Paulo. Sixteen adult street subjects participated in the research. For data collection, semi-structured interviews were used. Data analysis was performed through content analysis and discussed in the light of the theory of social representations. The social object of this study - food - represents survival in the current condition of life and preserves its history in affective memories in the past. The findings portray the suffering of having already had to resort to garbage to satisfy hunger and reveal that despite the progress in the creation of public policies for this group, it is still not enough to contemplate their rights regarding food.

Keywords : social representations; food; homeless population.

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