For a Liberatory Politics of Home

Michele Lancione

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Duke University Press
19 October 2023

Poverty & unemployment; Homelessness; Urban communities

In 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 does not 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 in there, if often in unannounced ways, where a profound struggle for a differential kind of homing signals multiple possibilities to transcend the violences of home/homelessness. In advancing a new approach to work with the politics of inhabitation, Lancione provides a critique of current practices and offers a transformative vision for a renewed, liberatory politics of home.

By: Michele Lancione
Imprint: Duke University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 431g
ISBN: 9781478025306
ISBN 10: 1478025301
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 19 October 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface vii Acknowledgments xi Introduction. The Problem of Lessness 1 Part I 1. The Subject at Home 25 2. Expulsion and Extraction 43 Part II 3. Italian Ritornellos 69 4. A Local Violence 99 5. A Global Culture 131 Part III 6. The Micropolitics of Housing Precarity 173 7. Deinstitute, Reinstitute, Institute 195 Conclusion. Beyond Inhabitation 223 Notes 233 Bibliography 257 Index 279

Michele Lancione is Professor of Economic and Political Geography at the Polytechnic University of Turin and coeditor of Grammars of the Urban Ground, also published by Duke University Press, and Global Urbanism: Knowledge, Power and the City.

Reviews for For a Liberatory Politics of Home

“Michele Lancione has given us an immense gift with this pathbreaking and brilliant book. His arguments will be of immense meaning for social movements concerned with housing justice, many of which are grappling with regimes of property and the affective politics of home. The study of housing and homelessness will not be the same.” -- Ananya Roy, author of * Poverty Capital: Microfinance and the Making of Development * “By mobilizing a new methodological, conceptual, and political grammar in which home/homelessness are not opposite but coherent expressions of a wider function of patriarchal and racialized processes of expulsions and extractions, this book offers a whole new perspective to imagine housing futures toward housing justice in which ‘housing precarity’ is not only a site for deprivation and relegation or a ‘problem to be fixed’ but can also perform a new politics of inhabitation.” -- Raquel Rolnik, author of * Urban Warfare: Housing under the Empire of Finance *