{"product_id":"9781119690979","title":"Rescaling Urban Poverty Homelessness, State Restructuring and City Politics in Japan","description":"\u003ch3\u003eRGS-IBG Book Series\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eRescaling Urban Poverty\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eHomelessness, State Restructuring and City Politics in Japan\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eMahito Hayashi\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eSocial Science \/ Sociology \/ Urban\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eRESCALING URBAN POVERTY\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e“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.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Neil Brenner,\u003c\/b\u003e Lucy Flower Professor of Urban Sociology, University of Chicago\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“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, \u003ci\u003eRescaling Urban Poverty\u003c\/i\u003e is a unique and valuable contribution to the study of the geographies of urban social movements.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Nik Theodore,\u003c\/b\u003e Head of the Department of Urban Planning and Policy, University of Illinois Chicago\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRescaling Urban Poverty \u003c\/i\u003ediscloses the hidden dynamics of state rescaling that ensnares homeless people at the fringes of mainstream society and its housing regimes\/classes. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplains the oppressive effects of rescaling and its limits in the interplay of the state, domiciled society, public space, urban class relations, social movements, and capitalism\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eUses ethnography as a re-ontologising medium of critical theorisation in Lefebvrian, Gramscian, Harveyan, and other Marxian strands\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDevelops rich context-based and field-based arguments about social movements, poverty and housing policy, and public space formation in Japan\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eUncovers the radical geographies of placemaking, commoning, and translation that can create prohomeless urban environments under rescaling\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eRefines the method of abstraction to broaden the international scope of critical literatures and links different scholarly standpoints without obscuring disagreements\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eBy advancing a broad research program for homelessness and poverty, \u003ci\u003eRescaling Urban Poverty \u003c\/i\u003eprovides the essential understanding of how state rescaling ensnares homeless and impoverished people in the interplay of the state, domiciled society, public space, urban class relations, social movements, and capitalism. Its three angles – \u003ci\u003enational states\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003epublic and private spaces\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eurban social movements\u003c\/i\u003e – uncover the hidden dynamics of rescaling that emerge, and are resisted, at the fringes of mainstream society and its housing regimes\/classes. Evidence is drawn from Japanese cities where the author has conducted long-term fieldwork and develops robust urban narratives by mobilising spatial regulation theory, metabolism theory, state theory, and critical housing theory. The book cross-fertilises these Lefebvrian, Gramscian, Harveyan, and other Marxian strands through meticulous efforts to reinterpret both old and new texts. By building bridges between classical and contemporary interests, and between the theories and Japanese cities, this book attracts various audiences in geography, sociology, urban studies, and political economy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMahito Hayashi\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eHomelessness and Urban Space\u003c\/i\u003e (2014, in Japanese) and has published widely in notable journals. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e14 November 2023\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWiley\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWiley\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781119690979\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e336\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e20.0\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44315591245964,"sku":"9781119690979","price":85.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9781119690979.jpg?v=1780204991","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781119690979","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}