PSC 337R - Homelessness

Course Units: 1

This course investigates homelessness from an interdisciplinary perspective, focusing on the political economy of housing and the sociology of inequality in the contemporary capitalist world. We will start by looking into the philosophy of dwelling and the critique of biopolitics (administration of life) per Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben. Then, we will critically examine the ways in which homelessness is produced and reproduced through exploitative relations of class, gender-based discrimination, racism, and the oppressive exercise of political power. CC: SOCS, WAC