Name: Coming of Age on the Streets of Java
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SKU: 9783837636086
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Coming of Age on the Streets of Java

By (author): Thomas Stodulka

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Published: 26-Jan-2017
ISBN: 9783837636086

Paperback
286 Pages

Subjects:
Social & cultural anthropology
ethnography
Age groups: adolescents
Urban communities
Education
Psychology
Social
group or collective psychology
Social & cultural history
Violence in society
Poverty & unemployment
Population & demography
Development studies
Gender studies
gender groups
Sociology
Social research & statistics
Social mobility
Illness & addiction: social aspects
Medical sociology

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This book is based on almost five years of fieldwork with street-related communities in the city of Yogyakarta, Indonesia, between 2001 and 2015. The author inquires into children's and adolescents' coming of age on the streets and their remarkable social and emotional competences, instead of resorting to a dreadful discourse of pity and despair. The ethnography's multi-vocal narrative couples vivid accounts of ethnographic case studies and life stories with current theory on affect, emotion, empathy, structural violence or social interaction in the context of marginality, stigma and chronic illness.

Thomas Stodulka ist Sozial- und Kulturanthropologe mit einem Schwerpunkt in Psychologischer Anthropologie an der Freien Universität Berlin. Er leitete ein Shelter für chronisch kranke Jugendliche in Indonesien und veröffentlichte die Ergebnisse seiner Feldforschung mit Straßenkindern unter dem Titel »Coming of Age on the Streets of Java«.