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Diversi, Marcelo.

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Street kids in search of humanization: Expanding dominant narratives through critical ethnography and stories of lived experience.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Street kids in search of humanization: Expanding dominant narratives through critical ethnography and stories of lived experience./
Author:	Diversi, Marcelo.
Description:	210 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 59-06, Section: A, page: 2086.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International59-06A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9834668
ISBN:	0591880830

Street kids in search of humanization: Expanding dominant narratives through critical ethnography and stories of lived experience.
Diversi, Marcelo.

Street kids in search of humanization: Expanding dominant narratives through critical ethnography and stories of lived experience. - 210 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 59-06, Section: A, page: 2086.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1998.

The prevalence of the demonizing images of street kids in most of Brazil can be gauged by the lack of concern with their social condition shown by communities and government. The population's perception of street kids as lesser beings can be felt in the eerie silence that follow aggressions such as the Candelaria massacre in July of 1993, when eight street kids sleeping by a church in Rio de Janeiro were shot by hired guns. Street kids' daily lived experiences are generally confined within a "little criminal" identity, which, as I argue in this project, is constituted and perpetuated by the limited tales of their lived experiences told in our pool of shared cultural expressions.

ISBN: 0591880830Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

Street kids in search of humanization: Expanding dominant narratives through critical ethnography and stories of lived experience.
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520 $a The prevalence of the demonizing images of street kids in most of Brazil can be gauged by the lack of concern with their social condition shown by communities and government. The population's perception of street kids as lesser beings can be felt in the eerie silence that follow aggressions such as the Candelaria massacre in July of 1993, when eight street kids sleeping by a church in Rio de Janeiro were shot by hired guns. Street kids' daily lived experiences are generally confined within a "little criminal" identity, which, as I argue in this project, is constituted and perpetuated by the limited tales of their lived experiences told in our pool of shared cultural expressions.
520 $a Until the general population begins to perceive and understand street kids in a more positive light, as fellow human beings searching for similar dreams in very adverse conditions, these kids' social reality cannot be significantly improved. Isolated interventions cannot survive without gradual involvement from local communities. Governmental programs and financial aid will not be continuous, if given at all, without organized political pressure from the population. And kids cannot believe in empowerment and self-redefinition when most of their encounters with passersby, police, and media, are framed within a predominantly negative street identity.
520 $a This study draws on social theories such as critical theory and poststructuralism to deconstruct the current dominant narratives about street kids in large urban centers in Brazil, as well as to ground the method of this study: critical ethnography. The writing genre I chose to represent the street kids I met during my fieldwork, from 1994 to 1996, is short stories. My main goal in the 14 short stories I write here is to show these kids daily struggle for survival and dignity, to offer a glimpse into their lived experiences, to invite others to feel, if only for a brief moment, what it is to be a street child in Campinas, Brazil. I see this study as a small first step toward expanding the narratives and imaginations about street kids, toward inviting more people to relate to these kids in more touching, experiential ways.
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