Introduction
How do histories and structures of cumulative disadvantage and privilege seep into the social psychological landscapes of children, youth, and adults? This is a profoundly important question of epistemology, theory, and design for researchers who are committed to documenting the everyday collateral damage of and emergent collective resistance to the wave of swelling inequality gaps, neoliberal transformations of state and capital, global movements of bodies, and government declarations of austerity surrounding us today.
As a provisional response to this question of design, Michelle Fine and Jessica Ruglis (2008) offer the concept circuits of dispossession and privilege as a conceptual framework for studying how structural injustice moves under the skin of privileged and marginalized individuals. Contesting the simplicity of social determinism andnaïve individualism, a circuits analysis recognizes that growing up in the vortex of inequality gaps fundamentally shapes (but...
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Fine, M. (2014). Circuits of Dispossession and Privilege. In: Teo, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5583-7_41
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