Homelessness, Citizenship, and Identity
Subtitle: The Uncanniness of Late Modernity (Suny Series in National Identities)
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: June 28, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780791461112
Subjects: Homelessness; Human rights; Poverty; Sociology; Philosophy; Sociology - Urban; Public Policy - General; General; Political; Homeless persons; Government policy
Description: "In this study, Kathleen R. Arnold explores homelessness in terms of the globalization of the economy, national identity, and citizenship. She argues that domestic homelessness and conditions of statelessness, such as refugees, exiles, and poor immigrants, are defined and addressed in similar ways by the political sphere, in such a manner that each of these groups are subjected to policies that perpetuate their exclusion. Drawing on such authors as Freud, Marx, Foucault, Derrida, Levinas, and Agamben, Arnold argues for a radical politics of homelessness based on extending hospitality and the toleration of difference."--Jacket.