Rescaling Urban Poverty - 9781119690979

Rescaling Urban PovertyHomelessness, State Restructuring and City Politics in Japan\nAuthor(s): Mahito Hayashi\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc, United States\nImprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc\nISBN-13: 9781119690979, 978-1119690979\nSynopsis\nRESCALING URBAN POVERTY 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 complexitie.