Homeless resistance in urban space

What is it about?

This paper investigates how homeless people in Stockholm coped with urban planners' efforts to drive them away from two public places. Whereas some of the homeless people left these sites because they became unliveable after the reconstructions, others returned because they found them more liveable than before. Highlighting the nomadic ways in which homeless people inhabited urban space, the paper further shows how this was related to homeless discourses of apathy, cynicism and contentment.

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Why is it important?

By highlighting how planning efforts can be subverted with very limited resources and without an explicit strategic agenda, the paper gives hope that political change can be pursued from the margins.