Oscenità e corpi: processi di normalizzazione e resistenza in soggetti richiedenti elemosina

Some bodies in public space are judged and treated as if they were obscene objects because of their potential on the suspencion of people’s everyday certainties. They are bodies that appear alarming and contagious, weakening and generating confusion about the own ideals of being normal and the analogous values and symbolic systems. On the street, the beggar can effectively illustrate the configurations of the obscene, representing the other and different body. From daily life observations, here we want to explore the concept of obscenity as an analytical category, also applicable to the bodies commonly excluded and placed to the borders. Particularly, the analysis will follow three perspectives: a) the analysis of bodies in public and the look of the other in the construction and negotiation of the identity; b) the discourses and dispositives of visibility of the subordination and the process of incorporation; c) the practices of resistance, that are the uses of the body and of the symbols intended as possibilities of breakup of the requests and expectations that administer roles and relationships.