Mark S. Dolson (PhD Western University) is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Waterloo, Canada.

Introduction;1 Neoliberal Deformations of the Social;2 Ethnographic Fieldwork on the Homefront;3 "We're Not Really Living, We're Surviving"; 4 Life Finds a Way... On the Street; 5 "Fucking with People's Heads"; 7 Creative Release; 8 Taking Stock: Stories as Social Action; Conclusion: Life-Pitch, Yaw, Roll...and Contradiction?

This book provides an ethnographic examination of the everyday lives and struggles of street-involved youth in Canada.