Homeless Heritage - Collaborative Social Archaeology As Therapeutic Practice

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.

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.

Additional text

Winner of the 2019 Society for Historical Archaeology James Deetz Book Award

Product details

• Authors: Rachael Kiddey, Rachael (Postdoctoral Researcher Kiddey
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9780198746867
• ISBN: 978-0-19-874686-7
• No. of pages: 230
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Poverty & unemployment, Housing & homelessness, Poverty and precarity, Archaeological science, methodology & techniques, Housing and homelessness, Archaeological science, methodology and techniques