Callous Objects
Designs against the Homeless
2018
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Robert Rosenberger
Callous Objects unearths cases in which cities push homeless people out of public spaces through a combination of policy and strategic design. Robert 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.
"This short, vivid and novel book serves as a timely reminder that our public spaces are not experienced equally."
—LSE Review of Books
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.
$10.00 paper ISBN 978-1-5179-0440-1
$4.95 ISBN 978-1-4529-5687-9
104 pages, 19 b&w photos, 5 x 7
Robert Rosenberger is associate professor in the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
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.
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LSE Review of Books: Callous Objects
Very reasonably priced and easy to read, this book compiles examples of simple technologies that have been designed to deter rough sleepers.
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