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Atlanta, GA | Posted: February 16, 2018
Robert Rosenberger
Associate Professor
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Robert Rosenberger's new book looks at how cities combat homelessness.
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Rosenberger Callous Objects BookThe end of 2017 saw the release of Robert Rosenberger’s new book, Callous Objects: Designs Against the Homeless, with University of Minnesota Press. The book is a short and polemical critique of the ways that cities design the objects of public spaces to push homeless people out of view. With a focus on everyday public-space objects, like benches, garbage cans, and fences, Rosenberger highlights a pervasive strategy adopted by cities to hide the problem of homelessness through the re-design of public space. He argues that this anti-homeless design trend works in accord with a variety of laws that cities pass to target homeless people, laws which homeless advocates claim make homelessness itself a crime.
The book includes a catalog of many of the design strategies that target homeless behaviors, an analysis of anti-homeless laws, and an exploration of many specific cases, from anti-camping laws, to anti-homeless spiked ledges, to homeless advocacy art projects. To think further about these issues, Rosenberger draws ideas from social theory, political philosophy, phenomenology, and feminist epistemology. This pocket-sized book is written for a widely interdisciplinary audience.
See: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/callous-objects
The book can be read online through the publisher’s Manifold project here: https://manifold.umn.edu/project/989de0b5-8cc2-4e53-bbd9-98bad8ba3b43
For a selection of Rosenberger’s previous academic and public writing on the politics of public space see:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-016-0674-3
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10746-014-9317-1
http://www.creativeloafing.com/news/article/13081526/the-politics-of-park-benches
