Citizens without Shelter: Homelessness, Democracy, and Political Exclusion
Brand: Cornell University Press
Categories: Books, History, World



Dimensions: 6.12 x 0.67 x 9.25 inches
ISBN-13: 978-0801441240
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0801441242
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Print length: 200 pages
Publication date: April 22, 2004
author: Visit Amazon's Leonard C. Feldman Page search results Leonard C. Feldman
review: Editorial Reviews Review " Citizens without Shelter traces the development of homelessness policy by analyzing local regulations and their judicial challenges. Leonard Feldman argues that cities and the courts are now criminalizing the very activities that homeless citizens must carry out in order to live. He also explores the changing definitions of 'the public sphere,' 'citizenship,' and 'home' in political philosophy, and how the interaction among these definitions has had an impact on the evolution of homelessness regulations." ― Political Science Quarterly "Feldman provides a thoughtful and nuanced examination of the cultural messages that undergird the wide range of arguments that structure both national and local debates in the United States over appropriate public responses to homelessness.... This extremely interesting work is highly recommended to anyone interested in the politics of homelessness or, more broadly, in the development of the 'frames' that both organize and become the grounds for contestation in public policy debates." -- D. R. Imig, University of Memphis ― Choice "In Citizens without Shelter , Leonard Feldman writes about homelessness and about those who write about the homeless.... He argues―correctly, I believe―that the homeless typically are excluded from democratic politics." -- Mark Carl Rom, Georgetown University ― Perspectives on Political Science Review "In this wonderful book, Leonard C. Feldman analyzes the politics of bare life―in context, rigorously examining in empirical and theoretical detail the scapegoating of homeless people. While dominant treatments of homelessness see it as a problem to be solved (administratively, juridically), Feldman calls for an alternative, more politicized, agency enhancing, and potentially transformative response to homelessness, one that ought properly to be part of any democratic agenda. Citizens without Shelter is a fine book about a topic of enduring importance." -- Bonnie Honig, Professor, Political Science, Northwestern University, and Senior Research Fellow, American Bar Foundation About the Author Leonard C. Feldman is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Oregon. Read more