Identidades (in)formales

Abstract

This article presents an analysis of the processes of ideological identity formation (interpelation) through which are constructed the unstable identities of the “camellos” (“camels”, street venders), defined as subjects in relation to public urban space. The corpus explores discursive materials from the media, municipal legislation, the press, the union. We develop a reflection on the functioning of the processes of designation, understood as mechanisms of subject formation, which intervene in the identity forming process and we propose a description of its operation in relation to the utterance sites, described here as mechanisms for the social legitimization of language.