Coming of Age on the Streets of Java: Coping with Marginality, Stigma and Illness (EmotionsKulturen / EmotionCultures) - Softcover

Stodulka, Thomas

 
9783837636086: Coming of Age on the Streets of Java: Coping with Marginality, Stigma and Illness (EmotionsKulturen / EmotionCultures)

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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«.

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