Citizens Without Shelter Homelessness, Democracy, and Political Exclusion

Name: Citizens Without Shelter Homelessness, Democracy, and Political Exclusion
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ISBN: 9780801472909

ISBN-10: 0801472903

ISBN-13: 9780801472909

Edition: 2006 (Annotated)

Authors: Leonard C. Feldman

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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 being human and nothing but human" and what Giorgio Agamben terms "bare life." Feldman argues that the politics of alleged compassion and the politics of those interested in ridding public spaces of the homeless are linked fundamentally in their assumption that homeless people are something less than citizens. Feldman's book brings political theories together with discussions of real-world struggles and close analyses of legal cases. In Feldman's view, the "bare life predicament" is a product not simply of…

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 1/30/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 200
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Acknowledgments


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


Notes


Bibliography


Cases Cited


Index