For a Liberatory Politics of Home by Michele Lancione - 9781478025306

Name: For a Liberatory Politics of Home by Michele Lancione - 9781478025306
Brand: Duke University Press

Duke University Press

For a Liberatory Politics of HomeAuthor(s): Michele Lancione\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Duke University Press, United States\nImprint: Duke University Press\nISBN-13: 9781478025306, 978-1478025306\nSynopsis\nIn For a Liberatory Politics of Home, Michele Lancione questions accepted understandings of home and homelessness to offer a radical proposition: homelessness cannot be solved without dismantling current understandings of home. Conventionally, home is framed as a place of security and belonging, while its loss defines what it means to be homeless. On the basis of this binary, a whole industry of policy interventions, knowledge production, and organizing fails to provide solutions to homelessness but perpetuates violent and precarious forms of inhabitation. Drawing on his research and activism around housing in Europe, Lancione attends to the interlocking crises of home and homelessness by recentering the political charge of precarious dwelling. It is there, if often in unanno.