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Privatizar a los pobres. Etnografía de las prácticas de gobierno de los sin techo

Authors: PETTI, GABRIELLA;

Privatizar a los pobres. Etnografía de las prácticas de gobierno de los sin techo

Abstract

[Resumen] El artículo analiza la cuestión de la pobreza extrema a través de los discursos y las prácticas de los profesionales que intervienen en el “gobierno” del fenómeno. El análisis etnográfico de estos espacios organizativos se ha realizado en Génova (Italia), y para ello se han tenido en cuenta los principales entes públicos y privados en la materia. En el texto se propone un retrato general de la situación local, a partir del cierre de la institución que históricamente se ocupaba en Génova de la pobreza extrema y de los sin techo, poniendo de relieve las consecuencias territoriales de esta decisión de la administración municipal. A partir de este marco general, se pasa a las dimensiones “microfísicas” de gobierno de los marginales, concentrándose en algunos de los principales actores que gestionan lo que podríamos denominar la cuestión de los sin techo: los educadores y operadores sociales –públicos y privados. Se trata de “especialistas” que, a menudo alejados del ámbito institucional, constituyen los verdaderos nodos vitales de la circulación y reproducción de un poder de control y de unos mecanismos de sujeción de los que –como se intentará demostrar- ellos mismos no están exentos. En líneas generales, la hipótesis es que la precarización, la minorización y la marginación, convertidas por un gran número de expertos en prácticas cotidianas, conforman probablemente el modo actual de gobierno de una parte creciente de la población, que se presenta, cada vez más, como un producto típico de la sociedad contemporánea.

[Abstract] The paper examines the issue of extreme urban poverty by means of the discourses and the practices of the stakeholders and institutions governing this phenomenon. The ethnography of these organizational spaces was realized in Genoa and I have taken into account the main public bodies and non profit organizations. Firstly I want to present the portrait of the local situation from the closure of the institution historically consecrated to give hospitality to homeless people shortly describing the principal consequences of the policy choices of the local authority. Secondly I focus on the description of the microphysical dimensions of the government of homelessness, describing the role of the most involved figures in the management of marginal people: the public and private social workers. They are professionals, far from the political and institutional arena, constituting the hard core for the circulation and the reproduction of the power of control and bearing the devices of subjugation to which they seem to be exposed themselves. In general the basic hypothesis of my paper is that precarisation, inferiorisation and marginalization are probably the present form of governing an increasing part of populations that appears more and more as a typical product of the contemporary society.

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Spain, Italy
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Keywords

Extreme urban poverty, Social work, Privatisation, Precarización, Procedures of individualisation, Trabajo social, Procedimiento de individualización, Privatización, Precarisation, Pobreza extrema

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