Rescaling Urban Poverty: Homelessness, State Restructuring and City Politics in Japan

ISBN-13: 9781119690979 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 304 str.

Mahito Hayashi

Recenzje

'In this path-breaking book, Mahito Hayashi explores the rescaled geographies of homelessness that have been produced in contemporary Japanese cities. Through an original synthesis of regulationist political economy and immersive place-based research, Hayashi situates urban homelessness in Japan in comparative-international contexts. The book offers new theoretical perspectives from which to decipher emergent forms of urban marginality and their contestation.'Neil Brenner, Lucy Flower Professor of Urban Sociology, University of Chicago'Mahito Hayashi traces the shifting spatial strategies of unhoused people as they create spaces of emancipation within Japanese cities. Attending to the complexities of contentious class politics and livelihoods barely sustained by the survival economies, Rescaling Urban Poverty is a unique and valuable contribution to the study of the geographies of urban social movements.'Nik Theodore, Head of the Department of Urban Planning and Policy, University of Illinois Chicago

O autorze

Mahito Hayashi teaches urban studies and comparative Japanese studies at Kinjo Gakuin University, Japan. His research focuses on poverty, labour, social movements, urban theory, and sociospatial approaches to state and regulation theory. Professor Hayashi is the author of Homelessness and Urban Space (2014, in Japanese) and has published widely in notable journals.