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The Disgusted Notice the Disgusting: Being Homeless and the Sullied Schooling of the Street
Atherton, Frances
Atherton, Frances
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2016-12-19
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The 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.
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Atherton, 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.
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Other Business Ltd
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Other Education: The Journal of Educational Alternatives
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This 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.
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2049-2162