Banca de DEFESA: GIZANE RIBEIRO DE SANTANA

Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
DISCENTE : GIZANE RIBEIRO DE SANTANA
DATA : 07/05/2021
HORA: 09:30
LOCAL: via plataforma RNP
TÍTULO:

Between doing and eating: an ethnography with street food workers in Recôncavo of Bahia

PALAVRAS-CHAVES:

Street Food; Informal Sector; Ethnography; Precarious Work; Food and Nutrition Security

PÁGINAS: 198
GRANDE ÁREA: Ciências da Saúde
ÁREA: Nutrição
SUBÁREA: Dietética
RESUMO:

The thesis focuses on the theme of street food, in order to understand the context and the meanings about the practices that surround the ways of making food and to commercialize them on public roads, based on an ethnographic study with workers of this trade, in Santo Antônio de Jesus, Recôncavo da Bahia. Although street food represents a relevant international socioeconomic construct and constitutes an object of transdisciplinary study, a significant part of the analyzes on this theme in Brazil, even in Latin America, is concentrated in the biomedical field, which often disregards the protagonism of workers in your searches. Distinctly, the present thesis analyzes a social microcosm of street food and inserts the social agents involved in this trade as translators of this phenomenon for research, using the dialogue between the Health and Nutrition Sciences and the Social and Human Sciences, to understand the object . These elements and the results achieved seek to contribute to offer other investigative perspectives on street food in Brazil. The products of the thesis thus include a book chapter and an essay, which go back to a 'state of the art'; and two more scientific articles from ethnographic empirical research. The chapter presents a literature review that aimed to analyze the theoretical and methodological approaches that underlie the production of knowledge in the field of street food in Brazil. When analyzing these different dimensions, it became evident that, regarding a replicating implication of the biomedical sciences and the microscopic perspective of analytical-comprehensive approaches, both can act in parallel and complementary ways, in order to think about the formation of a field of knowledge in the food of street that brings together a multidisciplinary perspective, but also steeped in empirical and historical knowledge. The first article, of an essayistic nature, brings a theoretical reflection about the process of institutionalizing street food in the fabric of a Western Modernity. In this discussion, it was problematized that the food trade in the urban space, expressed in the descriptor 'street food', emerged in Antiquity and was acquiring institutional contours when it was structured socially, economically and culturally, with the advent of modern society, under the which acts as a reframing element, but, at the same time, reshapes itself in the recurrent transformations of this Modernity. The next two articles derive from the ethnographic incursion into the city of Santo Antônio de Jesus, Recôncavo da Bahia, a territory chosen for convenience and, at the same time, for its economic importance in the region. The field phase lasted seven months, between 2018 and 2019. The empirical material produced, using the techniques of unstructured interviews, systematic observations, participants, field diary received through audio recordings and alternative sources (newspapers, books and sites), was treated according to the procedures described in Poupart et al. (2014) and Kaufman (2018). The gathered empirical corpus provided ethnographic descriptions, whose interpretative analysis followed the writings of Clifford Geertz (2008; 2014). From the appreciation of this material, analytical categories emerged, which reconfigured the direction of the thesis, namely, the micro-entrepreneur in street food, interpreted as the transition from street vendor to entrepreneur in street food in SAJ, which was discussed in the second article from the implementation and resonances around the intervention strategy: Programa SAJ Legal, which reproduced a neoliberal ideology, with the multiplication of precarious work mechanisms, which it “formalized” to regulate street food. The third article glimpsed the analogy between street vendors and artisans (Sennett, 2015), unveiled in the resourcefulness of complex manual craftsmanship, which involved skills, inherited knowledge and techniques learned, as well as cunning, strategies and social engagement, instilled in the work, performed by a family network. In this, the precariousness of street work was demarcated, including family members and underemployed people, as well as the contradiction implied in the responsibility of producing food, permeated by SAN and, at the same time, being in a place of social invisibility, in the face of this and other Brazilian public policies. From these analytical paths, the thesis gathered elements to unveil an invisible work process around street food, whose practices moved from the domestic space to the city, in the stages of acquisition, pre-preparation and cooking of the food. These practices, aggregators of knowledge and multiple actions, articulated mind and body, shaping itinerant artisans. The street food trade in SAJ, permeated by ideological mechanisms of state regulation, reproduced a scenario of precariousness in the world of work. When unveiling the context, caught between making and eating street food, the thesis also revealed that, although it collects a network complex to do in their work, street vendors and their families resonate as entities excluded from the legal labor regime and unassisted in terms of Health and Food and Nutritional Security, while public policies aimed at the segment, markedly, prioritize a supposed order, the safety and food safety for the consumer. Based on such understandings, it is concluded that street food requires inclusive policies and strategies, in which street vendors can act as active participants in the process.

MEMBROS DA BANCA:
Interno(a) - 1095648 - LIGIA AMPARO DA SILVA SANTOS
Interno(a) - 287774 - RYZIA DE CASSIA VIEIRA CARDOSO
Externo(a) ao Programa - 2279561 - MONICA ANGELIM GOMES DE LIMA
Externo(a) à Instituição - MÔNICA CHAVES ABDALA - UFU
Externo(a) à Instituição - VIVIANE VEDANA - UFSC