Are the Homeless Taboo? – A Theoretical Perspective

Discussing works by Patrick Declerck, Ghassan Hage, and Giorgio Agamben, this paper asks whether society sets the homeless apart and treats them the way it does not by accident, but deliberately, because they serve, as outcasts, a particular function. This article does not attempt to analyse a given...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Adam Clay
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Edinburgh 2017-05-01
Series:Forum
Online Access:http://journals.ed.ac.uk/forum/article/view/1880