TY  - BOOK
AU  - Loehwing,Melanie
TI  - Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation. Homeless Advocacy and the Rhetorical Construction of the Civic Home
T2  - Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation
SN  - 9780271083087
AV  - HV4505 .L697 2021
U1  - 362.5/920973 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - University Park, PA : 
PB  - Penn State University Press, 
KW  - Homelessness
KW  - United States
KW  - Rhetoric
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Food Not Bombs
KW  - Homeless Persons Memorial Day
KW  - Homeless World Cup
KW  - body rhetoric
KW  - democratic culture
KW  - homeless advocacy
KW  - homeless policy
KW  - homelessness
KW  - politics of visuality
KW  - rhetorical citizenship
KW  - temporality
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; List of Abbreviations --; Introduction: Dwelling Within Democracy --; 1 The Rhetorical Conventions of Contemporary Homeless Advocacy --; 2 The Democratic Vision of Homeless Meal-Sharing Initiatives --; 3 The Democratic Bodies of the Homeless World Cup --; 4 The Democratic Temporalities of the Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day --; Conclusion: Rhetorical Constructions of the Civic Home --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Homeless assistance has frequently adhered to the “three hots and a cot” model, which prioritizes immediate material needs but may fail to address the political and social exclusion of people experiencing homelessness. In this study, Loehwing reconsiders typical characterizations of homelessness, citizenship, and democratic community through unconventional approaches to homeless advocacy and assistance.While conventional homeless advocacy rhetoric establishes the urgency of homeless suffering, it also implicitly invites housed publics to understand homelessness as a state of abnormality that destines the individuals suffering it to life outside the civic body. In contrast, Loehwing focuses on atypical models of homeless advocacy: the meal-sharing initiatives of Food Not Bombs, the international competition of the Homeless World Cup, and the annual Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day campaign. She argues that these modes of unconventional homeless advocacy provide rhetorical exemplars of a type of inclusive and empowering civic discourse that is missing from conventional homeless advocacy and may be indispensable for overcoming homeless marginalization and exclusion in contemporary democratic culture.Loehwing’s interrogation of homeless advocacy rhetorics demonstrates how discursive practices shape democratic culture and how they may provide a potential civic remedy to the harms of disenfranchisement, discrimination, and displacement. This book will be welcomed by scholars whose work focuses on the intersections of democratic theory and rhetorical and civic studies, as well as by homelessness advocacy groups
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271083087
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780271083087
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780271083087/original
ER  -