The street as a field. Characterization concerning the street plight in Ibagué

Abstract

This research explores and describes the street plight based on the case of Ibagué, since it stresses in characteristic phenomena that allow the structuring of a street habitus, from the idea that the street itself is a field. A qualitative methodology, a cross-sectional design, with a historical-hermeneutical approach that focused on Commune One of the municipality were used. A basic characterization of structural elements was achieved, as well as the identification of life paths, routes and commuting routines, forms of rooting and identities, and practices of exploitation and violence against the body in a differential way between sexes and psychological phenomena, such as learned hopelessness and dereliction.