Beside One's Self: Homelessness Felt and Lived

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163 Index abuse: alcohol, 55, 108; bodily memories of, 54; centrality of, 53; coping mechanisms for, 69–70; emotional, 142; geography of, 143; at home, xiii, 53, 54–59, 125, 143; narratives of, 54, 55–56, 57, 58; statistics on, 54–55; suicidal behavior and, 75–76; traumatic experiences of, 54–59, 78. See also drug abuse; sexual abuse accommodation services, xvi–xvii, 85, 92, 113–14, 120–23 addiction, 73, 77, 90 affectivity, 6, 7, 8, 14, 37–38, 141 alcohol abuse, 55, 108. See also drug abuse alienation, 87, 108–9 Anderson, Kay, 141–42 anthropological research, 11–12 Aubry, Tim, 142 Augé, Marc, 39 authority, experiential, 16–17, 24 Avramov, Dragana, 5 Bao, Wa-Ning, 56 belonging, xii, 6, 85, 104, 124 biographical narratives, 51 bodily displacement. See displacement bodily experience. See corporeal experience bodily knowledge: development of, 106; as evidence, 17; felt-experience of others and, 28; of felt homelessness , 23–26; reflexivity and, 29–34; of researchers, 24–29 body-as-place, 27 body memory: coping mechanisms for, 69–74; narratives of, 61, 62; of place, 59–63; psychically homeless and, 78; self-harm and, 76; of trauma, 53, 54, 59–68 Bondi, Liz: on empathy, 35–36; on fieldwork , 26; on incorporating others’ experiences, 38; on interviews, 39, 47; on introjection and projection, 35, 40; on the self, 48 Bostock, Lisa, 83–84 Bourdieu, Pierre, 18, 38–39, 105–6, 108–9, 113 Brannock, Jillian, 9 Buhrich, Neil, 55 Butler, Judith: on felt-experience, 10, 15, 19; on grief, 1, 21, 140; on vulnerability, 49, 139; on woundedness, 47 care, 142–44 Casey, Edward: on body, 64; on body memory, 59, 60; on disembodiment, 164 | Index Casey, Edward (cont.) 67–68; on displacement, 7, 79, 81, 82; on place-panic, 81; on remembering-ashealing , 66; on self and place, 84; on subjects of place, 134; on thinned-out place, 86, 100 Cavell, Stanley, 136 census data, 3–4 Certeau, Michel de, 83, 84 Chamberlain, Chris, 2–5 Chamberlayne, Prue, 1, 142 Clifford, Judith, 16 Coffey, Amanda, 30 Coleman, Anne, 142 community, 105–29; acceptance by, 119–20, 126–28; alternative lifestyle, 126; feeling of abnormality and, 109–19; as home, 8, 124; of homeless, 123–26, 129; narratives of, 121, 122, 123, 124–28; in search of, 119–29. See also social displacement compassion, 35, 37, 125 compassion fatigue, 48, 49–50 confusion, empathetic, 36–37 Cooper, Andrew, 1 coping mechanisms: drug abuse as, 55, 68–74, 78; narratives of, 70, 71–73; self-harm as, 55, 68, 74–77, 78; suicidal behavior as, 74; trauma-related, 54, 58, 68–74; vagrancy as, 103 corporeal displacement, 64–68. See also trauma corporeal experience: compassion fatigue and, 49–50; corporeography and, 17–18; of cumulative trauma, 132; of displacement, 22; empathetic identification and, 36–37; legitimacy of, 2; need for research on, 9–15, 131; of pain, 63–64. See also body memory corporeography, 17–18, 23–50, 138–45; AHURI project and, xiii; drawbacks of, 29, 46–50; empathy and, 35–39; reflexivity and, 29–34; researchers’ bodily knowledge in, 25–29; sensability and, 39–46 Costello, Lauren N., 129 countertransference, corporeal, 36–37 Crane, Phil, 9 Crinall, Karen, 138–39 crisis accommodation services, xvi–xvii cumulative trauma, xiii, 53, 132 Das, Veena, 136 de Certeau, Michel, 83, 84 Derrida, Jacques, 38 Desjarlais, Robert, 2, 10–11, 12, 21, 138 Diprose, Rosalyn, 23, 49 discordance, 22, 106, 109–11, 113, 134–35, 145 discursive empathy, 27–28 disembodiment, 134, 140, 145; displacement as, 22, 64; drug-related, 68–74; trauma-related, 59, 66–74, 77–78. See also embodiment dislocation, 8–9, 134, 135, 145; displacement as, 21, 22, 79–80; grief-related, xiii; repeated experience of, 86; selfharm and, 77 displacement: corporeal, 64–68; emotional geography of, 141–42; geographic , 79–87, 95, 104, 134–35; homelessness as, 7–8, 21–22, 131, 140; pain of, 28; as placelessness, 81; somatography of, 134; spatial, 103, 105–6; trauma-related, 53–54, 64, 65, 66–68, 135. See also emplacement; social displacement dispossessed, the, 108–9 dissociation, 67, 68 Index | 165 distress, sentient, ix, 19–20, 28, 29, 137 Dittmar, Helga, 82, 87 Domosh, Mona, 12, 13 Downing-Orr, Kristina, 123, 125, 129 drop-in services, 96, 120, 122, 143–44 drug abuse: as coping mechanism, 55, 68–74, 78; cycles of, 72; daily life of, 113; disembodiment from, 68–74; identification...