{"product_id":"citizens-without-shelter-homelessness-democracy-and-political-exclusion-9780801472909","title":"Citizens without Shelter: Homelessness  Democracy  and Political Exclusion","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne 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 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. Feldmans book brings political theories together (including theories of sovereign power  justice  and pluralism) with discussions of real-world struggles and close analyses of legal cases concerning the rights of the homeless. In Feldmans view  the \"bare life predicament\" is a product not simply of poverty or inequality but of an inability to commit to democratic pluralism. Challenging this reduction of the homeless  Citizens without Shelter examines opportunities for contesting such a fundamental political exclusion  in the service of homeless citizenship and a more robust form of democratic pluralism. Feldman has in mind a truly democratic pluralism that would include a pluralization of the category of \"home\" to enable multiple forms of dwelling; a recognition of the common dwelling activities of homeless and non-homeless persons; and a resistance to laws that punish or confine the homeless.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666194849845,"sku":"ByrdShop_0801472903","price":39.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780801472909.jpg?v=1782422477","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/citizens-without-shelter-homelessness-democracy-and-political-exclusion-9780801472909","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}