Relatos identitarios de un grupo de recicladores de oficio en la ciudad de Bogotá

Abstract

The objective of this research is to understand the stories of trade waste pickers in relation to their social identity through 6 people from the Puerta de Oro Waste Pickers Association, from the city of Bogotá. Through political psychology, social identity is analyzed, emphasizing the theory of political consciousness (Sandoval, 2001, quoted by Gomes Dau, et al., 2019) that locates the emotional aspect as the central focus in adherence to the group, participation in social, economic and political contexts, creation collective identity, cultural beliefs, as well as the creation of common adversaries within the power struggles that occur over unevenly distributed material such as usable material and of course, the decolonization of knowledge and powers of a social structure that stigmatizes the waste picker population through social imaginaries that limit and continue to violate the image of the trade waste picker, their work and their environment. All this will be carried out through a qualitative methodology, making use of life story and PhotoVoice, in order to broaden the perspective towards a new conception of the trade recycler through reflections of the participants with the purpose of favor personal and social dynamics different from those configured by society in general that this important political actor and his trajectory throughout history are unaware of.