Citizens without Shelter : Homelessness, Democracy, and Political Exclusion /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Feldman, Leonard C., 1971-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2004.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Sans-abri.
Politik
Entfremdung
Obdachlosigkeit
Homelessness.
Homeless persons.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > History & Theory.
Itinerance > États-Unis.
Sans-abri > États-Unis.
Homeless persons > United States.
Homelessness > United States.
États-Unis.
USA
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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