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- Homelessness, Citizenship, and Identity: The Uncanniness of Late Modernity
- Book
- 2004
- Published by: State University of New York Press
- Series: SUNY series in National Identities
summary
In the aftermath of September 11, donations to the poor and homeless have declined while ordinances against begging and sleeping in public have increased. The increased security of public spaces has been matched by a quest for increased security and surveillance of immigrants. In this groundbreaking 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, LĂ©vinas, and Agamben, Arnold argues for a radical politics of homelessness based on extending hospitality and the toleration of difference.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- p. ix
- 1. Introduction
- pp. 1-16
- 3. Das Unheimliche
- pp. 51-85
- 4. Homelessness and Panopticism
- pp. 87-128
- 6. Debt, Guilt, and Responsibility: Schuld
- pp. 163-172
Additional Information
ISBN
9780791484937
DOI
MARC Record
OCLC
62348646
Pages
212
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No