Callous Objects

Name: Callous Objects
Brand: University of Minnesota Press
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Designs against the Homeless

By: Robert Rosenberger

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Paperback | 15 December 2017 | Edition Number 3

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79 Pages

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17.8 x 12.7 x 1.3

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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.

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"Callous Objects provides an incredibly clear and concise introduction to the key ideas in Science and Technology Studies that animate much of the current literature on homelessness and the built form. It is an essential reading for academics, both undergraduate and advanced scholars, and practitioners of policy, planning, and law."-Contemporary Political Theory

"This short, vivid and novel book serves as a timely reminder that our public spaces are not experienced equally." -LSE Review of Books

"In this small-but-powerful book, Robert Rosenberger delves into the objects and laws that target the homeless. The book balances its philosophical bent with a hard look at how cities and governments counter a homeless presence." -Metropolis

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