Homeless People in Public Space and the Politics of (In)visibility

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F22%3A00128998" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/22:00128998 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1206331220906091" target="_blank" >https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1206331220906091</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1206331220906091" target="_blank" >10.1177/1206331220906091</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Homeless People in Public Space and the Politics of (In)visibility
Original language description
Homeless people were a new sight in the post-1989 Czech Republic, as the previous regime effectively criminalized homelessness. Thus, in the 1990s, the new visibility of homeless people was a shock to the public eye. This paper is based on a longitudinal study of how, based on this new visibility, the representations of homeless people developed throughout the 1989–2015 period. The paper focuses on the interplay between physical visibility of homelessness and its visibility for public policy. It introduces a threefold theoretical model of how the former is transformed into the latter: I argue that, to be recognized as “problematic” in public space, a group must (a) be recognized as a distinct category (categorical visibility), (b) be recognized as a threat to the civil order (moral visibility), and (c) that public policy must have legal instruments to perceive and address the issue (the eyes and arms of public policy).
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50401 - Sociology

Project
<a href="/en/project/GP14-32200P" target="_blank" >GP14-32200P: Incvivility in urban public space</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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