- Title
- Youth, homelessness, and embodiment: Moralised aesthetics and affective suffering
- Creator
- Farrugia, David
- Date
- 2010
- Type
- Text; Conference paper
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/74008
- Identifier
- vital:7173
- Abstract
- This paper explores the process of embodiment for young people experiencing homelessness. Drawing on interviews with 20 young people, I relate descriptions of embodied feelings and practices to the moral and aesthetic regulatory norms which construct bodies in contemporary modern societies. Young people experiencing homelessness are excluded from the private sphere, meaning they are unable to practice the reflexive body practices required of modern subjects. These young people also lack access to consumer goods, meaning they are unable to construct the forms of aesthetic embodiment expected of young people in a consumer society. The outcome of these exclusions is a form of embodied suffering. Drawing on Massumi‟s concept of affect, I describe the means by which power relations come to constitute embodied feelings, and analyse the emergence of reflexive body practices by young people negotiating the move from homelessness into home. This paper therefore traces the means by which structural inequality is embodied and results in affective suffering for the disadvantaged.; E1
- Publisher
- The Australian Sociological Association
- Relation
- TASA 2010
- Rights
- © Copyright TASA
- Rights
- Open access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1608 Sociology
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