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List of contents
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Welcome to the Croft!
- 3: A Community of Sciences
- 4: Homelessness in Global Historical Context
- 5: An Ethic of Care
- 6: Wandering Abroad: Ethnographic Journeys in the City
- 7: Are You Looking for a Body? Excavating Contemporary Homeless Places
- 8: 'This Whole Project has Given Me Focus, Hope and Positivity': The Co-presentation of Findings
- 9: Applied Heritage
- 10: Conclusion
About the author
Rachael Kiddey is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford where she works on a project called Architectures of Displacement: The Experiences and Consequences of Emergency Shelter. She received her PhD from the Department of Archaeology at the University of York in 2014. Her doctoral research involved developing methodologies for working archaeologically with homeless people; documenting how heritage can function in socially useful and transformative ways. This research was shortlisted for the Times Higher Education Award for Widening Participation Initiative of the Year 2012 and was shortlisted for the Society for Historical Archaeology Mark E. Mack Community Engagement Award 2016. Rachael also works as Editorial Assistant at the Independent Social Research Foundation where, among her responsibilities, is the production of the interdisciplinary
Bulletin.
Summary
Homeless Heritage complements a growing body of literature that blends academic research findings with personal narrative to explain how archaeological approaches can be applied in the contemporary world, and details what homelessness in Britain in the first part of the twenty-first century is like.
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Winner of the 2019 Society for Historical Archaeology James Deetz Book Award
