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Keep Your Sunny Side: A Street-Level Look at Homelessness
Ist Teil von
Culture, medicine and psychiatry, 2014-06, Vol.38 (2), p.312-323
Ort / Verlag
New York: Springer US
Erscheinungsjahr
2014
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
EBSCOhost Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
This opinion piece considers my personal experiences of poverty, homelessness, loss, and physical disability in relation to recent discussions of social defeat and resistance among permanent supported housing tenants with physical and mental illnesses. By drawing attention to the onslaught of deprivation and humiliation that generally comes with the territory of poverty and homelessness in the United States, I hope to influence the ways in which clinicians, social service providers, and scholars think about specific instances of social defeat and resistance. My basic point is that any specific experience of resistance or defeat cannot be adequately understood in isolation. Rather, such experiences must be understood in relation to individual life histories of defeat and resistance, and to the symbolic and material sources of success and failure available to citizens who occupy a particular section of social space in a given society.