Part III: Bodies, risks and public environments: Exclusionary environments.
In: Environmental Risks & the Media, 1999-11-11, S. 160-170
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The article traces the media career of youth homelessness--the way it entered the headlines and, later, how the reporting changed. Youth homelessness first became widely reported in the British news media in 1989. In 1998, the Labour government appointed a homelessness tsar, demonstrating that it regards homelessness as a serious social problem. Youth homelessness can be seen as the fallout from global change--recession and then economic restructuring which left little employment for young school leavers--coupled with broad monetarist politics which exacerbated unemployment and led to cuts in welfare benefits. Before understanding the effect which media coverage has had on homelessness as a social issue, it is important to consider further the kind of images which have been produced. It is undoubtedly true that rough sleeping is the predominant media symbol of youth homelessness. For example, an early article (Guardian 3 March 1987) was concerned with young people trapped in their parents, homes because of increasing property prices. Parallels can be drawn between the media politics of a social issue such as youth homelessness and the media politics of many environmental issues. In both, dangers and risks are caused by global changes and national policies which can create physical or social pollution--be it oil on the coast or young people sleeping on the streets.
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Part III: Bodies, risks and public environments: Exclusionary environments.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Hutson, Susan ; Liddiard, Mark ; Allan, Stuart ; Adam, Barbara ; Carter, Cynthia |
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Zeitschrift: | Environmental Risks & the Media, 1999-11-11, S. 160-170 |
Quelle: | Environmental Risks & the Media; (1999-11-11) S. 160-170 |
Veröffentlichung: | 1999 |
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ISBN: | 978-0-415-21447-6 (print) |
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