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Representing Homelessness analyses the representation and self-representation of homelessness. The volume features research from the Arts, Humanities, Sciences and the Social Sciences, as well as writings by people with lived experience of homelessness.
List of contents
- 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: LÍGIA 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
About the author
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.
Summary
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.
