Abstract

FERNANDES, Luís  and  RAMOS, Alexandra. Exclusão social e violências quotidianas em “bairros degradados”: etnografia das drogas numa periferia urbana. Toxicodependências [online]. 2010, vol.16, n.2, pp.15-27. ISSN 0874-4890.

This article synthesises the main data of an inquiry led since 2007 in two of the peripheral social housing neighborhoods in Oporto that are more related with drug dealing and consumption. Using the ethnographic method, we follow the evolution of the ‘drug in the street’ phenomenon, while the local community was adapting to a big eco-social event: the demolition of one of the neighborhoods, and the reaccommodation of part of its population in another quarter nearby. Some traces of the daily life in junkie areas, types of actors that organize and use them, their relationship with each other and with the police, and the enrolled violence in these relationships web. From these empirical evidences, some of the dimensions that allow us to relate structural violence and daily violence were discussed, as well as the way the relations between drug, social exclusion and urban politics on “drugs neighborhoods” are usually equated.

Keywords : Drugs Markets; Social Housing Neighborhood; Social Exclusion; Ethnography; Urban Violence.

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