Overview
- Unique theoretical framework, which demonstrates important connections between youth homelessness, identity and wider social changes influencing contemporary young people
- Analyses the subjective, relational and embodied dimensions of the experience of homelessness within a coherent theory of youth homelessness
- Extensive qualitative data in which young people from urban and rural areas describe the experience of homelessness in their own words
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Perspectives on Children and Young People (PCYP, volume 1)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Homelessness in Australia
- Ulrich Beck
- Youth homelessness
- community development
- contemporary youth inequalities
- dimensions of identity
- diverse social and community backgrounds
- embodied identity
- geographical inequalities
- homelessness in rural communities
- interpersonal dimensions of homelessness
- narratives of homelessness
- practices of self-management
- reflexivity
- rural youth
- social change
- social policy
- social problems
- symbolic economy
- urban youth
About this book
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.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Youth Homelessness in Late Modernity
Book Subtitle: Reflexive Identities and Moral Worth
Authors: David Farrugia
Series Title: Perspectives on Children and Young People
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-685-0
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-287-684-3Published: 08 September 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-1278-5Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-981-287-685-0Published: 30 July 2015
Series ISSN: 2365-2977
Series E-ISSN: 2365-2985
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 172
Topics: Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Childhood, Adolescence and Society, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Social Work