Published: 2019-12-31

The homeless, mobile, well-settled residents of cities (in artistic practices)

Joanna Pankau
Journal of Urban Ethnology
Section: Articles
DOI https://doi.org/10.23858/JUE17.2019.013

Abstract

The problem of settling in a city by homeless people is taken up in the article on the basis of the analysis of socially engaged artistic practices. Selected projects constitute promising research material, encouraging us to look at the relations of mobility and settlement (accommodation) in a city, taking into account the issue of urban democratization. Attention is paid to the epistemological and activating functions of the discussed projects, which bring artistic practice (exposing political representations) closer to urban research (documenting, analyzing, providing practical tools), and encourage the re-examination of the relationships: exclusion from and the right to city (home), a place and a non-place – in relation to specific ways (practices) of inhabiting post-industrial cities by homeless people.

Keywords:

mobility, settling, homelessness, democratization of the city, artistic practice

Citation rules

Pankau, J. (2019). The homeless, mobile, well-settled residents of cities (in artistic practices). Journal of Urban Ethnology, 17, 211–225. https://doi.org/10.23858/JUE17.2019.013

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