1st Edition
Street Youth in Canada An Ethnography of Adversity and Artifice
By Mark S. Dolson
Copyright 2024
170 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
170 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
170 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book provides an ethnographic examination of the everyday lives and struggles of street-involved youth in Canada. Based on fieldwork conducted throughout downtown London, Ontario, it features rich ethnographic data as well as theoretical insights informed by continental philosophy. The chapters highlight informants’ experiences of poverty, addiction and poor mental health, and reflect on... Read more
Introduction
1 Neoliberal Deformations of the Social
2 Ethnographic Fieldwork on the Homefront
3 “We’re Not Really Living, We’re Surviving”
4 Life Finds a Way… On the Street
5 “Fucking with People’s Heads”
7 Creative Release
8 Taking Stock: Stories as Social Action
Conclusion: Life—Pitch, Yaw, Roll…and Contradiction?
Biography
Mark S. Dolson (PhD Western University) is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Waterloo, Canada.
