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ResumoO presente artigo parte da inter-relação analítica entre corpo e mundo social para se debruçar sobre a articulação entre o corpo e a cidade, duas dimensões materiais, geográficas, sociais e políticas que se perpassam e se influenciam como territórios físicos e culturais de produção e enunciação de processos sociais e políticos. Enfocando, sobretudo, as vidas e os corpos das pessoas que vivem ou trabalham em situação precária nas ruas, pontuamos que a produção e a reprodução da vida diária têm o espaço físico e as redefinições contínuas sofridas por ele como sua base e condição cotidiana de existência. Nesse sentido, o corpo aparece não apenas como presença imagética e material ou como metáfora de projetos urbanos, mas como uma experiência concreta, múltipla e influente na própria constituição da cidade. Nessa relação específica de escala entre corpo e cidade, portanto, a condição de precariedade aparece como fundamental, pondo a nu e de forma conflitiva como as condições socioeconômicas, bem como as imposições do poder urbanístico sobre determinados sujeitos, vão moldando corpos abjetos resistentes e tendo paisagens urbanas redesenhadas. Palavras AbstractThis article discusses the analytical interrelation between the body and the social world, in order to focus on the articulation between the body and the city. Both are material, geographical, social and political dimensions; they constitute physical and cultural territories of production and enunciation social and political processes, permeating and influencing each other. Taking in particular account lives and bodies of people working or living in precarious situation in the streets, we claim that the production and the reproduction of daily life is conditioned by the physical space and its continuous redefinitions. In this sense,

This paper explores analytically the relation between experiences of vulnerability, regarding housing processes for people in different kinds of mobility in urban settings. Drawing reflections from two ethnographic contexts in which we have been working, the Hindu-Gujarati and the Brazilian populations in Lisbon, we reflect upon the contours of their experiences, recounting their migration process, and different ways of being under housing vulnerability, as well as their responses to excluding urban politics. The lack of places to inhabit, drives people to different housing solutions, and to a constant mobility, through migration and remigration. These conditions are experienced differently according to the temporality of the mobility paths and projects, and to the type of relation/confrontation with housing policies. Hence, the aim is to understand: what are the strategies of settling within a dynamic of constant mobility? How vulnerability is expressed and qualified in these different settings?

From research experiences with homeless people, we seek to discuss the possibilities and challenges of the ethnographic and cartographic method, as they have been used in anthropology and psychology, from the perspective of interdisciplinary dialogues and compositions. The precarious living conditions of people on the street, who hang between exclusion and resistance, continually challenged us and imposed reflections on the relations between the researcher, the participants and the institutions in the research field. In this article, we present the premises of a methodological composition that we call "ethnocartographing" in an ethical and political dialogue about the act of research as an affirmation of life. We emphasize that the proposed approach does not translate into methodological techniques, but corresponds to an immersion into the universe of the other in which writing constitutes an important dimension of knowledge production between research and life.

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