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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
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.
