ABSTRACT
Oppression and inequality are pervasive throughout the globe. Consider the vast economic inequality where more than 70 percent of the world’s adults own under 10,000 USD in wealth. While economic inequality has always accompanied capitalism, since the neoliberal project was put in place in the early 1980s, the economic divide has been magnified. The hegemonic carceral logics and discourse promoting fear of ‘the other’, the stranger, abound for the populations and groups deemed unworthy. These policies and hegemonic discourses continue the cycle of oppression and inequality. As representatives of poverty, homeless are a visible reminder of the failings of capitalism, social inequality and the ‘socially dead’ processes that subject them to harsh regulatory controls directly commissioned by an increasingly carceral state. The structural forces that lead to the massive and varying forms of inequality are initiated, and often forcefully perpetrated, by external interventionist policies that create the fragility of life that the carceral policies of state are instituted to address.
