Down on Their Luck: A Study of Homeless Street People

Deutsch, James I.; Snow, David A.; Anderson, Léon

doi:10.2307/541898

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“…Research on space often does not specify the term space, making the concept vague and difficult to work with (Massey, 2008). We base our discussion on Snow and Mulcahy's discussions of space (2001, p. 157), where they draw on Duncan (1983) and Snow and Anderson (1993). Here space within a community is divided into three: Prime space, i.e.…”

Section: The Concept Of Spacementioning

confidence: 99%

Locational citizenship, exclusion and inclusion. The case of street children in Ethiopia

Adefris,

Gatbel,

Moss

2023

Euro J Social Psych

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Public space is a possible site for grounding a social psychology of citizenship. Locational citizenship speaks to the right to have a place in public space. Certain groups are however often excluded. Drawing on individual interviews and focus group discussions with street children in Gambella Town, Ethiopia, this study explores how street children talk about their lives on the street. The results demonstrate the children's lack of inclusion in locational citizenship, and how public space becomes contested space when different groups use these places in ways that clash. The children also speak to processes of inclusion, both among groups of street children, and kindness from individual adults in their environment. These children's their stories of both exclusion and inclusion are crucial to the developing social psychology of citizenship. The study emphasizes exclusion and inclusion as processes, and the children's active handling of their street life. We also problematizes the division between private and public space when the former is often no longer an available space for these children.

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Section: The Concept Of Spacementioning

confidence: 99%

Locational citizenship, exclusion and inclusion. The case of street children in Ethiopia

Adefris,

Gatbel,

Moss

2023

Euro J Social Psych

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“…The media is therefore capable of positioning those experiencing homelessness as a threat to the community and to social order, directing societal contempt towards this marginalised population (Alexandrescu, 2018;Kinsella, 2012). As such, it is clear that the homeless label is one which carries a great deal of stigma (Goffman, 1963;Snow and Anderson, 1993;Walter et al, 2015).…”

Section: Being Seen As Homelessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Drawing out perceptions: Using drawing as a method to understand public perceptions of homelessness and crime

Long

2023

International Review of Victimology

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This article considers the ways in which we as a society see victims of crime, particularly those who fall into Miers’ category of ‘delinquent victims’. Focusing on homelessness in the United Kingdom, the article is critical of the ‘victim’ label, which is arguably at odds with real crime victims, yet produces the victims we do see as well as those we do not. While those experiencing homelessness suffer from heightened levels of victimisation, they are also less likely to attain victim status. The following discussion seeks to rationalise this paradox by suggesting that being seen as homeless is somehow incompatible with being seen as a victim. Given the importance of the visual, drawing is employed as a research method to understand public perceptions of homelessness and crime. The resulting visual representations are unanticipated, yet significant, and often omit the crime component entirely, instead focusing on stereotypical representations of homelessness. The article concludes by emphasising the importance of seeing and suggests directions for future research.

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“…The 'identity hierarchies' that homeless people construct (Boydell et al, 2000) tend to include the length of homelessness as a crucial stigmatising and self-stigmatising factor. As homeless people typically follow mainstream society in attributing responsibility for failure to individual rather than structural causes (Snow and Anderson, 1993;Zufferey and Kerr, 2004;Terui and Hsieh, 2016), surrendering to the destructive forces of time while living on the streets becomes equivalent to personal failure. People come to accept the societal stigma and internalize the blame, and this becomes reflected in the sense of having 'voluntarily' relinquished their agency, their ability to act in the world, and becoming stuck in a perpetual present.…”

Section: Tempo Of Real Duration: Abundance Of Time and Being Out Of Timementioning

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A Bergsonian analysis of time in qualitative research: Understanding lived experiences of street homeless people in Moscow

McDonough

Stephenson

2022

Qualitative Research

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Understanding of how time is experienced is essential when conducting qualitative research. This article explores how time seemingly stands still, speeds up, slows down, rewinds and fast-forwards for the participants in our qualitative investigations. Drawing upon interview data with street homeless people in Moscow, Russia, this article examines the ways in which time is contextualized and used by research participants to make sense of their everyday experiences and important events in their lives. There is a tendency to understand time by measuring it, rather than seeing it as something within which lived experience happens and qualitative research is carried out. Drawing on Bergson’s conception of time as duration, this article examines the ways in which time can be distinctively used and understood within qualitative research.

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Down on Their Luck: A Study of Homeless Street People

Cited by 9 publications

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Locational citizenship, exclusion and inclusion. The case of street children in Ethiopia

Locational citizenship, exclusion and inclusion. The case of street children in Ethiopia

Drawing out perceptions: Using drawing as a method to understand public perceptions of homelessness and crime

A Bergsonian analysis of time in qualitative research: Understanding lived experiences of street homeless people in Moscow

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