Callous Objects: Designs against the Homeless (Forerunners: Ideas First) - Softcover

Rosenberger, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1517904404 ISBN 13: 9781517904401

Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2017

Synopsis

Uncovering injustices built into our everyday surroundings

Callous Objects unearths cases in which cities push homeless people out of public spaces through a combination of policy and strategic design. Robert Rosenberger examines such commonplace devices as garbage cans, fences, signage, and benches—all of which reveal political agendas beneath the surface. Such objects have evolved, through a confluence of design and law, to be open to some uses and closed to others, but always capable of participating in collective ends on a large scale. Rosenberger brings together ideas from the philosophy of technology, social theory, and feminist epistemology to spotlight the widespread anti-homeless ideology built into our communities and enacted in law.

Forerunners: Ideas First is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital publications. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.

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About the Author

Robert Rosenberger is associate professor in the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Edition details

• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1517904404
• ISBN 13: 9781517904401
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 79