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dc.contributor.authorAtherton, Frances*
dc.date.accessioned2016-07-06T08:45:55Z
dc.date.available2016-07-06T08:45:55Z
dc.date.issued2016-12-19
dc.identifier.citationAtherton, F. (2016). The Disgusted Notice the Disgusting: Being Homeless and the Sullied Schooling of the Street. Other Education: The Journal of Educational Alternatives, 5(2), 128-147.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10034/615622
dc.descriptionThis document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a published work that appeared in final form in Other Education: The Journal of Educational Alternatives. To access the final edited and published work see http://www.othereducation.org/index.php/OE.en
dc.description.abstractThe brutality of life on the street is explored in this paper with a young homeless couple and the ragged community they are part of. Destitution, prostitution, drugs and crime sculpt their lives and identify them as the symbolic edge of society, the boundary of civilisation, at the cultural margins, where subsistence is in a state of decomposition. Deserving of adversity? Theirs is a bordered being which seems to inspire a remarkable fortitude. They defy their abjected state of being in a Nietzschean determination for a kind of redemption in this life. Paradoxically, however damaged and broken their lives, however pitilessly rejection is dealt, however ravaged they are by what I would describe as the education of the street; this bleak place is often suffused with tenderness and compassion, intensely enacted and understood. How these moments variously unfold, frequently in searingly public places, is offered here and affords a glimpse of a life few could endure.
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherOther Business Ltd
dc.relation.urlhttp://www.othereducation.org/index.php/OE/article/view/188
dc.subjectHomeless
dc.subjectNietzsche
dc.subjectDisgust
dc.subjectAddiction
dc.subjectAbjection
dc.titleThe Disgusted Notice the Disgusting: Being Homeless and the Sullied Schooling of the Street
dc.typeArticle
dc.identifier.eissn2049-2162
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of Chesteren
dc.identifier.journalOther Education: The Journal of Educational Alternativesen
or.grant.openaccessYesen
rioxxterms.funderUnfundeden
rioxxterms.identifier.projectUnfundeden
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rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2016-12-19
html.description.abstractThe brutality of life on the street is explored in this paper with a young homeless couple and the ragged community they are part of. Destitution, prostitution, drugs and crime sculpt their lives and identify them as the symbolic edge of society, the boundary of civilisation, at the cultural margins, where subsistence is in a state of decomposition. Deserving of adversity? Theirs is a bordered being which seems to inspire a remarkable fortitude. They defy their abjected state of being in a Nietzschean determination for a kind of redemption in this life. Paradoxically, however damaged and broken their lives, however pitilessly rejection is dealt, however ravaged they are by what I would describe as the education of the street; this bleak place is often suffused with tenderness and compassion, intensely enacted and understood. How these moments variously unfold, frequently in searingly public places, is offered here and affords a glimpse of a life few could endure.
rioxxterms.publicationdate2016-12-19
dc.dateAccepted2016-07-01
dc.date.deposited2016-07-06


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