The articulation of the homeless subject position as subaltern other: A visual analysis of the Greek street paper shedia
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The articulation of the homeless subject position as subaltern other: A visual analysis of the Greek street paper shedia
Original language description
This article examines the alternative representations of homeless people, as they appear in the Greek street paper shedia. Street papers are publications that are distributed by homeless and poor people, frequently hosting their vendors' voices, and offering spaces of visibility to these highly marginalised groups. By deploying discourse theory and the theoretical work on subalternity and othering, together with the frameworks of discourse-theoretical analysis and visual and multimodal analysis, this chapter analyses the discursive construction of the homeless subject position in shedia's visual representations. This analysis focusses on how shedia critiques, through its visual contents, the hegemonic discourse on the homeless identity, which constructs homeless people as subaltern others, through three main components (nodal points): the absence of house as stigma, the lack of agency for the homeless and the reduction of their political identity to that of the denizen. The analysis also shows how shedia simultaneously taps into an alternative discourse that aims to re-humanise, re-subjectivise and re-politicise the homeless subject position. shedia's alternative discourse is largely built through strategies of de-othering, however, as it is explained in the analysis, there are certain limitations to these strategies, as the homeless' subalternity is not always, or not fully, reversed.
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50802 - Media and socio-cultural communication
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Wir und die Anderen : Visuelle Kultur zwischen Aneignung und Ausgrenzung
ISBN
978-3-86962-395-5
Number of pages of the result
29
Pages from-to
222-250
Number of pages of the book
287
Publisher name
Herbert von Halem Verlag
Place of publication
Köln
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