Social Life and the Deaths of Brazilian Street Children

Drybread, Kristen

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“…This same line of "organization on the edge" is echoed in the few contributions on the subject from Latin America. Kristen Drybread's (2013) incisive work on street children in the Brazilian northeast considers the specter of ignominious disposal for these small "indigents." These street children anticipate an early death, and what matters for them is to be surrounded and commemorated in death rather than being left to the vultures on a trash heap.…”

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“…This same line of “organization on the edge” is echoed in the few contributions on the subject from Latin America. Kristen Drybread's (2013) incisive work on street children in the Brazilian northeast considers the specter of ignominious disposal for these small “indigents.” These street children anticipate an early death, and what matters for them is to be surrounded and commemorated in death rather than being left to the vultures on a trash heap. Drybread recalls a conversation among them in which one boy tells how the state treated a peer after he was killed by an extermination squad: “No one claimed the body, so the folks at the morgue stuffed him in a plastic bag and threw him in the pit” (ibid.…”

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Willis

2018

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I unpack the “potter's field” as an everyday practice and a category, especially as it operates in the material treatment of bodies as a mirror of life. I examine this space of “worthlessness” as it exists in liberal capitalism. From the potter's fields of São Paulo, Brazil, I consider how these are, in fact, mundane mass graves, made politically useful as a means to obscure important bodies alongside those who are, today, the subjects of terror. I then ask how the rise of the uncertified potter's field—a burial field for disposable bodies, not made legal by the state—is inseparable from recent historical and contemporary conditions of political abandonment. The uncertified field is made easy by a politics of abandonment, and becomes useful to state institutions as a material invocation of responsibility, interred elsewhere, while nonetheless advancing a larger logic of governance and political will in our times.

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Willis

2018

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“…In medical anthropology, scholars have long addressed the concepts of mental health and well-being (Ben-Arieh, 2005;Drybread, 2013;Getrich et al, 2007;Jain & Orr, 2016;Parr, 1998;Ware et al, 2003). Their research primarily focuses on experiences of mental health institutions or services and the process of measuring well-being.…”

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Rural Young People’s Experiences Through the COVID-19 Pandemic: Struggles, Support and a Way Forward for Young People’s Mental Health and Well-being

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The novel coronavirus pandemic in Canada has increased attention and concern paid to young people's well-being and mental health. Narratives of isolation, exacerbated inequalities, and potential unequal recovery for young people, in particular, have been presented as a result of school closures across the country. Through these narratives, young people are framed as vulnerable, passive recipients of adult decisions and interpretations of their experiences. This research examines these narratives by conducting ethnographic fieldwork with a group of young people living in a rural Ontario town through the pandemic. This thesis presents and analyzes these young people's experiences of the pandemic related to mental health and well-being to reveal the missing nuances of adult narratives and to propose suggestions for future inclusive, accessible, rights-respecting programs for young people's mental health and well-being post-pandemic based on young people's accounts.

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Child Death in Buenos Aires viceversa, La vendedora de rosas and La mujer sin cabeza

Martin

2019

The Child in Contemporary Latin American Cinema

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Social Life and the Deaths of Brazilian Street Children

Cited by 5 publications

References 13 publications

The Potter's Field

The Potter's Field

Rural Young People’s Experiences Through the COVID-19 Pandemic: Struggles, Support and a Way Forward for Young People’s Mental Health and Well-being

Child Death in Buenos Aires viceversa, La vendedora de rosas and La mujer sin cabeza

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