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Title
Youth homelessness in late modernity [electronic resource] : reflexive identities and moral worth / David Farrugia.
ISBN
9789812876850 (electronic book)
9812876855 (electronic book)
9789812876843
9812876847
Published
Singapore : Springer, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-981-287-685-0 doi
Call Number
HV1441
Dewey Decimal Classification
362.74
Summary
This book explores the identities, embodied experiences, and personal relationships of young people experiencing homelessness, and analyses these in relation to the material and symbolic position that youth homelessness occupies in modern societies. Drawing on empirical research conducted in both urban and rural areas, the book situates young people?s experiences of homelessness within a theoretical framework that connects embodied identities and relationships with processes of social change. The book theorises a ?symbolic economy of youth homelessness? that encompasses the subjective, aesthetic, and relational dimensions of homelessness. This theory shows the personal, interpersonal and affective suffering that is caused by the relations of power and privilege that produce contemporary youth homelessness. The book is unique in the way in which it places youth homelessness within the wider contexts of inequality, and social change. Whilst contemporary discussions of youth homelessness understand the topic as a discrete ?social problem?, this book demonstrates the position that youth homelessness occupies within wider social processes, inequalities, and theoretical debates, addressing theories of social change in late modernity and their relationship to the cultural construction of youth. These theoretical debates are made concrete by means of an exploration of an important form of contemporary inequality: youth homelessness.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series
Perspectives on children and young people ; Volume 1.
Available in Other Form
Print version: 9789812876843
Chapter 1 Introduction: Understanding Youth Homelessness
Chapter 2 Youth Homelessness, Reflexivity and Inequality in Late Modernity
Chapter 3 Young Homeless Subjectivities: A Symbolic Economy
Chapter 4 Identity: Becoming a Homeless Youth
Chapter 5 Identity: Subverting Homelessness and Making a Home
Chapter 6 Bodies: Being and Feeling Homeless
Chapter 7 Relationships: Constructing the Other, Constructing the Self
Chapter 8 Conclusion: The Symbolic Economy of Youth Homelessness and the Purpose of Homelessness Research
Chapter 9 Afterword: The Practice of Ethical Research Interviews with Homeless Youth.
