Living on the Street

Social Organisation and Gender Relations of Australian Street Kids

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4476103
AutoresH P M Winchester (0000-0002-4918-9735, University of Newcastle Australia), Lauren N Costello (Monash University)
Año1995
Volumen13
Número3
Páginas329-348
Fecha de publicación1995-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEnvironment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1068/d130329
OpenAlexW2065728589
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas27
Referencias citadas24

The resurgence and visibility of homelessness since the 1980s have become significant social and political issues, widely debated in academic circles and in the popular press. The composition of the homeless population has changed markedly in this period, and now includes more women and children, and more of the deinstitutionalised mentally ill. The lives of street kids in the city of Newcastle, Australia show patterns of structured behaviour and territorial and social organisation. They have a distinctive group identity and moral order. Their subculture is complex with strains of nonpatriarchal and patriarchal relations combined with little tolerance of forms of difference. The moral code of the youth subculture may be a form of resistance to their histories of abuse but is also conservative in reproducing aspects of the culture that they resist. The social networks generated on the street provide a self-maintaining force which contributes to a culture of chronic homelessness

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