ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the taste for violence as one form, and the locales or stations of the homeless as one site. Violence is social opposition at its most conflictual. It may be symbolic and make sense of contestatory social relations through images of bodies in conflict, or it may be physical and socially confrontational. Historically censorship has been most effective most frequently as a strategy of the power-bloc to control the ideas in social circulation. Economic power is localized in power over people in the face-to-face relationships of everyday life. In big cities with their more antagonistic social relations, violent relationships between panhandlers and passers-by, ranging from verbal abuse through to physical threats, mugging and even murder, are becoming more and more common. Physical violence in social, not symbolic, life is quite different from symbolic violence and is properly dealt with by legal prohibition.
