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Street Youth in Canada : An Ethnography of Adversity and Artifice, EPUB eBook

Street Youth in Canada : An Ethnography of Adversity and Artifice EPUB

Part of the Routledge Studies in Anthropology series

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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 their relation to the state – including participation in the provincial government’s programme of social assistance provision (Ontario Works).

The author considers how social, cultural, political, economic and existential factors influence and shape human subjectivity.

They explore the notion of becoming and offer a re-evaluation of individual agency and action, specifically related to the lived experience of informants who are seen as wounded bricoleurs.

The study is relevant to anthropologists, sociologists, geographers and others with an interest in homelessness.

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