Callous Objects

Callous Objects

EnglishPaperback / softback
Rosenberger Robert
University of Minnesota Press
EAN: 9781517904401
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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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EAN 9781517904401
ISBN 1517904404
Binding Paperback / softback
Publisher University of Minnesota Press
Publication date December 15, 2017
Pages 79
Language English
Dimensions 178 x 127 x 13
Country United States
Authors Rosenberger Robert
Illustrations 17 b&w illustrations
Series Forerunners: Ideas First