ABSTRACT

This chapter considers how social housing tenants produce digital countercultural products to talk about, represent and analyses people and place relationships, and particularly how they used these products to explore territorialised representations of poverty and class. It focuses on three 'Acts' to discuss the cultural production processes within Residents' Voices, and makes use of the metaphor of the storytelling in a play as a way of organising the empirical cases. Each act describes a project undertaken under the banner of Residents' Voices, and analyses the response to stereotyping and stigma. Acts 1 and 2 focuses on a digital storytelling project and the 'Housos' research study, which were components of Residents' Voices. Act 3 covers a project that tangentially emerged from Residents' Voices, the 'Lost in the Woods' film project conducted by the Woodville Community Centre with tenants in Western Sydney.