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One of most troubling aspects of politics of homelessness, Leonard C. Feldman contends, is reduction of homeless to what Hannah Arendt calls the abstract nakedness of humanity and what Giorgio Agamben terms bare life. Feldman argues that politics of alleged compassion and politics of those interested in ridding public spaces of homeless are linked fundamentally in their assumption that homeless people are something less than citizens. Feldman's 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 rights of homeless.In Feldman's view, 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 homeless, Citizens without Shelter examines opportunities for contesting such a fundamental political exclusion, in 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 category of home to enable multiple forms of dwelling; a recognition of common dwelling activities of homeless and non-homeless persons; and a resistance to laws that punish or confine homeless.
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