“Being a street vendor is a necessity that we have to work on”

daily life and identification of popcorn sellers of Belo Horizonte

Abstract

The objective of this article is to understand what it is to be a popcorn seller in the city of Belo Horizonte, the daily practices that involve the profession and how the identification with this work is constructed. For the proposal, we adopted a qualitative approach and carried out 62 interviews with popcorn sellers active in the central region of the city. The technique of Linguistics Discourse Analysis was used to analyze the data and in this article, we looked at the semantics path “daily life and identifications: being street vendor and the need to work”, and we consider the daily life as one that interferes in the construction of the identifications of the popcorn workers. Finally, we seek to broaden and foster the debate on daily life and non-hegemonic knowledge.