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Citizens without shelter : homelessness, democracy, and political exclusion /

One of the most troubling aspects of the politics of homelessness, Leonard C. Feldman contends, is the reduction of the homeless to what Hannah Arendt calls "the abstract nakedness of humanity" and what Giorgio Agamben terms "bare life." Feldman argues that the politics of allege...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Feldman, Leonard C., 1971-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, ©2004.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: state power and the polarities of homeless
  • Politics
  • From vagrancy law to contemporary anti-homeless policy
  • The legal construction of the homeless as bare life
  • Redistribution, recognition, and the sovereign ban
  • Housing diversity and democratic pluralism
  • Conclusion: the empty tent of citizenship.