Coming of Age on the Streets of Java

Thomas Stodulka
Coming of Age on the Streets of Java
Coping with Marginality, Stigma and Illness
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. »An
outstanding analysis of a socially relevant phenomenon and a significant contribution that
counters the politicized and media-dominated homogenizing discourse about ›street
children‹ in Indonesia and other parts of the world. This book offers a highly compelling
anthropological focus on the manifold meanings, experiences and practices of young
people's life on the streets.« (Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Dilger, Institute of Social & Cultural
Anthropology, (...)
Print, 39,99 €
01/2017, 286 Seiten,
kart., zahlr. z.T. farb. Abb.,
ISBN 978-3-8376-3608-6
E-Book (PDF), 39,99 €
12/2016, 286 Seiten,
ISBN 978-3-8394-3608-0
Thomas Jan Stodulka is Junior Professor at the Institute of Social and Cultural
Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
Schlagworte: Emotion, Stigma, Marginality, Street Children, Indonesia, Ethnography,
Empathy, Structural Violence, Social Interaction, Yogyakarta, Culture, Ethnology, Youth,
Urban Studies, Cultural Studies
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