On the Matter of Abjection

Berressem, Hanjo

doi:10.1163/9789401204897_003

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“…Ours is a shift towards recognizing human agency in the ways people conduct their lives as subjects of abjectification. We nonetheless retain the central relational orientation to theorizing abjection (Berressem 2007; Douglas 2002[1966]; Kristeva 1982) in the argument that middle class domiciled groups can mark the bodies of lower classes as disgusting and filthy. Such distinctions of disgust function to warrant the cleansing of homeless people from the urban landscape to maintain respectability of place.…”

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Drifting Along or Dropping into Homelessness: A Class Analysis of Responses to Homelessness

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: Prominent assumptions about street homelessness and how it should be addressed originate primarily from middle class domiciled worldviews. This article draws on interviews with 58 street homeless people to develop a typology for explaining different forms of homelessness resulting from differences in class of origin. The concepts of social distance and abjection are used to illustrate how class politics manifests in street homelessness and in responses to this issue. Many of our homeless participants referred to two broad groupings of homeless people who display distinct experiences and cultures in their daily lives on the streets. Drifters are people who do not experience homelessness as a sharp disjuncture from their previously housed life. Street homelessness is a continuation of the hardships of their lower class backgrounds. Droppers are people who have “fallen” on hard times and aspire to return to mainstream middle class lifeworlds. Differentiating between these two groups provides a space for defamiliarizing dominant understandings of, and current generic responses to, homelessness and foregrounds the need for reorienting services to better meet the needs of drifters.

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Section: Implications For Understanding Homelessness and Responsesmentioning

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Drifting Along or Dropping into Homelessness: A Class Analysis of Responses to Homelessness

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Symbolic Matricide Gone Awry: On Absent and—Maybe Even Worse—Present Mothers in Horror Movies

Träger

2017

The Absent Mother in the Cultural Imagination

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Appropriating the abject: an anthropophagic approach to organizational diversity

Islam

2014

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal

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International audienceThis paper discusses the concept of organizational anthropophagy, a metaphor describing a unique relationship between identity and otherness. To show how this perspective contributes to understandings of diversity and difference, I read anthropophagy against psychoanalytic discussions of abjection, a process where individuals are simultaneously fascinated by, drawn towards, and horrified by their relationships to outside "others". Stemming from the global periphery, anthropophagy provides a way to combine psychoanalytic with sociological views of otherness. I stress the implications of the anthropophagic approach for organizational theorizing of the "monstrous", placing monstrousness against the political economic context of post-coloniality and discussing its relations with diversity and difference

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On the Matter of Abjection

Cited by 5 publications

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Drifting Along or Dropping into Homelessness: A Class Analysis of Responses to Homelessness

Drifting Along or Dropping into Homelessness: A Class Analysis of Responses to Homelessness

Symbolic Matricide Gone Awry: On Absent and—Maybe Even Worse—Present Mothers in Horror Movies

Appropriating the abject: an anthropophagic approach to organizational diversity

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