Homelessness, Citizenship, and Identity : The Uncanniness of Late Modernity

by Arnold, Kathleen R.

• ISBN13: 9780791461112
• ISBN10: 0791461114
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-06-28
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

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, Levinas, and Agamben, Arnold argues for a radical politics of homelessness based on extending hospitality and the toleration of difference.

Author Biography

Kathleen R. Arnold is Assistant Professor of Political Science at The University of Texas at San Antonio.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
1. Introduction	1	(16)
2. Citizenship and Political Identity	17	(34)
Introduction	17	(4)
Citizenship and Property in the Liberal Tradition: Political Power and Economic Independence versus Dependence	21	(6)
Juridical Conceptions of Citizenship	27	(9)
Social Dimensions of Citizenship	36	(7)
Conclusion	43	(8)
3. Das Unheimliche	51	(36)
Introduction	52	(5)
Home/Homeless	57	(16)
Power Dynamics of Home/Homeless: The Uncanny	73	(4)
Political Manifestations of the Uncanny	77	(10)
4. Homelessness and Panopticism	87	(42)
Introduction	87	(2)
History and Background	89	(17)
Homelessness and Panopticism	106	(16)
Conclusion	122	(7)
5. Homeland, Homelessness, and Cosmopolitanism	129	(34)
Introduction	129	(4)
Self/Other	133	(2)
State Power, Identity, and the Nation-State	135	(6)
Capitalism and Globalization	141	(5)
Identity and Cosmopolitanism: A Politics of Homelessness	146	(11)
Cosmopolitan Citizenship	157	(6)
6. Debt, Guilt, and Responsibility: Schuld	163	(10)
Notes	173	(32)
Index	205