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Publication Date: 2017-Mar
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Home(lessness) in Urbanizing China: Invisible Violence and Left-Behind Children in Martial Arts Schools
Dong, Xuan
Education and Urban Society, v49 n3 p251-270 Mar 2017
This article examines how martial arts students retell their stories about being left behind and how they have experienced, viewed, and struggled with the invisible violence. Popularly known as the "hometown of Chinese martial arts," Dengfeng is home to 48 registered martial arts schools and more than 70,000 full-time students. Drawing on 12-month-long fieldwork, this article highlights how martial arts students have (re)constructed the meaning of home(lessness) through bridging their past as left-behind children and the present as martial arts students. This article argues that such redefining of home(lessness) is resulted not only from the practice of invisible violence but also from how martial arts students engage with the structural, symbolic, and normalized violence.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Homeless People, Urban Problems, Violence, Athletics, Coping, Disadvantaged Youth, Urbanization, Sense of Community, Educational Environment, Student School Relationship, Special Schools
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