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- Title
Keep Your Sunny Side: A Street-Level Look at Homelessness.
- Authors
Frischmuth, Stephen
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
HOMELESSNESS -- Social aspects; DISABILITIES -- Social aspects; SERVICES for homeless people; MENTAL illness &; physiology; HUMILIATION -- Social aspects
- Publication
Culture, Medicine & Psychiatry, 2014, Vol 38, Issue 2, p312
- ISSN
0165-005X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11013-014-9372-0