Citation

Lyon-Callo V. Rethinking Marxism 2012; 24(2): 215-220.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/08935696.2012.657435

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Abstract

For a session at a Rethinking Marxism international conference, Talmadge Wright and Ann Kingsolver offered detailed and rich critical commentaries on my writing on homelessness. Ann Kingsolver, along with her students, further develops those thoughts in her essay appearing in this issue. Those interventions, along with my subsequent experiences, have resulted in my rethinking an earlier focus on neoliberal governance. This paper draws on over two decades of ethnographic research, activism, and direct service work on homelessness in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Michigan to explore both the limitations of dominant responses to homelessness and the possibilities of new ways of understanding and acting against violence.