Representing Homelessness
Published on 4. November 2021
Book
Hardback
234 pages
978-0-19-726724-0 (ISBN)
Description
This multidisciplinary volume combines academic research with first-hand accounts of homelessness. It describes how people affected by homelessness are perceived as objects through the process of Othering. It also provides examples of how such Othering can be overcome through collaboration, and by providing a platform for people affected by homelessness.
The volume argues that stereotypical representations of homelessness, while useful for charity fundraising, do more harm than good. It concludes that organisations tasked with dealing with homelessness must include greater representation from people with direct 'lived experience' of homelessness.
The volume argues that stereotypical representations of homelessness, while useful for charity fundraising, do more harm than good. It concludes that organisations tasked with dealing with homelessness must include greater representation from people with direct 'lived experience' of homelessness.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
23 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
652 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-726724-0 (9780197267240)
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Owen Clayton is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Lincoln. His specialism is late nineteenth and early-twentieth century British and US American literature, and his current research interests are the representation of vagrancy. He is currently working on his second monograph, entitled Vagabonds, Tramps, and Hobos: the Literature and Culture of American Transiency. His first monograph, Literature and Photography in Transition, 1850-1915, was published by Palgrave MacMillan in 2015.
Content
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: "I already have a voice": the representation and self-representation of homelessness
1: NUOYA TAN AND LASANA T. HARRIS: The Neuroscience Underlying Dehumanised Perceptions of People Who are Homeless
2: JULIET FOSTER: Representing homelessness in British newspapers: a contemporary consideration
3: PAUL ATHERTON: The Power of One: The Media and Homeless Stereotypes
4: NICK MORRIS: Framing communication for social change: the campaign to repeal the Vagrancy Act 1824
5: LIGIA TEIXEIRA: Ending homelessness for good: a manifesto
6: JESS TURTLE AND MATT TURTLE: Hidden in Plain Sight: Power, dehumanisation and (mis)representation in homelessness
7: TYMON ADAMCZEWSKI: Leaving Out and Living Rough: On the Materiality of Absence in Literary Representations of the Homeless Experience
8: EMMA FORSHAW: My Experiences of Homelessness
9: SUSAN PHILLIPS: Autonomy, Public Space, and Emplacement: An Examination of Graffiti on Los Angeles's Skid Row
10: OWEN CLAYTON: "Who Said I Was A Bum?" Self-Presentation in the "Hobo" News, 1915-1924
11: ANTHONY LUVERA AND JULIAN STALLABRASS: Framing the Crime: Anthony Luvera in conversation with Julian Stallabrass
Conclusion
Index
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: "I already have a voice": the representation and self-representation of homelessness
1: NUOYA TAN AND LASANA T. HARRIS: The Neuroscience Underlying Dehumanised Perceptions of People Who are Homeless
2: JULIET FOSTER: Representing homelessness in British newspapers: a contemporary consideration
3: PAUL ATHERTON: The Power of One: The Media and Homeless Stereotypes
4: NICK MORRIS: Framing communication for social change: the campaign to repeal the Vagrancy Act 1824
5: LIGIA TEIXEIRA: Ending homelessness for good: a manifesto
6: JESS TURTLE AND MATT TURTLE: Hidden in Plain Sight: Power, dehumanisation and (mis)representation in homelessness
7: TYMON ADAMCZEWSKI: Leaving Out and Living Rough: On the Materiality of Absence in Literary Representations of the Homeless Experience
8: EMMA FORSHAW: My Experiences of Homelessness
9: SUSAN PHILLIPS: Autonomy, Public Space, and Emplacement: An Examination of Graffiti on Los Angeles's Skid Row
10: OWEN CLAYTON: "Who Said I Was A Bum?" Self-Presentation in the "Hobo" News, 1915-1924
11: ANTHONY LUVERA AND JULIAN STALLABRASS: Framing the Crime: Anthony Luvera in conversation with Julian Stallabrass
Conclusion
Index