Staying alive while living the life : adversity, strength, and resilience in the lives of homeless youth /
In Staying Alive While Living the Life, Sue-Ann MacDonald and Benjamin Roebuck unpack the realities of living on the streets from the perspective of homeless youth. While much is written about at-risk youth, most literature on youth homelessness reduces their lives to flattened images with little ro...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Black Point Nova Scotia :
Fernwood Publishing,
[2018]
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| Summary: | In Staying Alive While Living the Life, Sue-Ann MacDonald and Benjamin Roebuck unpack the realities of living on the streets from the perspective of homeless youth. While much is written about at-risk youth, most literature on youth homelessness reduces their lives to flattened images with little room for the diverse, complex and individual nature of their experiences. Challenging the dominant youth-at-risk conversation by putting forward a framework of survival and resilience, MacDonald and Roebuck illustrate the ways that young people who experience homelessness demonstrate tremendous resilience when facing adversity, social exclusion and various forms of oppression. |
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| Physical Description: | 203 pages : illustration ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-198) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1552669327 9781552669327 |