Cozinhando a céu aberto: Relatos de vida de moradores de rua em Brasília

Abstract

This article shows a research done in Brasília (DF) with life stories of homeless people/families that make their own food in improvised stoves and kitchens in those places. The meaning and significance of these outdoor improvised kitchens change the feeding process as one of the key mediators and as a communicative and analytic index very important to get to know the dynamic of building an identity and social abilities of this subjects. The condition of living in the streets with all the concrete and symbolic frustrations and restrictions of this context, in these daily events and trajectories seen and reported, are building objects of meaning, that transform, in a two way sense, these kitchens in shelters and homes and, by that, in places of recognition and belonging.