Abstract:
Based in an ethnographic approach and following a biopolitic theory and urban anthropology's understandings of territoriality, this paper investigate some dynamics of daily life in open scenes of crack, cocaine base paste and other drugs use in the historic center of Cuiabá (MT), Brazil. Findings show that the open scenes of illegal drug use are crisscrossed by multiple and persistent forms of violence. But they also constitute fields that bring together stigmatized and relegated people, who interact and build social bonds, self-organize and resist the plurality of violence perpetrated on them.
Keywords:
Homelessness; Marginal territorialities; Social control; Resistances