{"product_id":"rescaling-urban-poverty-isbn-9781119690979","title":"Rescaling Urban Poverty","description":"\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 \u003cp\u003eList of Figures xii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Tables xiv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Abbreviations xv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSeries Editor's Preface xvi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface and Acknowledgements xvii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart One Theory, Method, Context 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1. Introduction and Theoretical Framework 3\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUrban Political Economy: For Homelessness? 7\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eState Rescaling: The Central Concept of this Book 9\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSubcomponent 1: National States 13\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSubcomponent 2: Public and Private Spaces 17\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSubcomponent 3: Urban Social Movements 21\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Method of Theorisation in this Book 26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePostcolonial Urban Theory 30\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBetween Abstract and Concrete 30\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Structure of this Book 32\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2. Japanese Context and the Regulationist Ethnography 37\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTheory Specification 1: National States 38\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTheory Specification 2: Public and Private Spaces 40\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTheory Specification 3: Urban Social Movements 44\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRegulationist Ethnography 45\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSites of Participatory Observation 49\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Nature of Data 53\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSubaltern Materials 56\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 59\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Two National States and Public and Private Spaces 61\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3. Scales of Societalisation: Integral State and the Rescaling of Poverty 63\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTheory and Its \"Deviants\" 64\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTheoretical Framework 67\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMobilising the Theory for Japan 77\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNationalised Space of Poverty Regulation in Japan 79\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNew Regulatory Spaces in Japan 93\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 100\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4. Rescaling Urban Metabolism I: Homeless Labour for \"Housing\" 103\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Urban Matrix and the Housing Classes 104\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMetabolism, Societalisation, Rescaling 107\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSpecification of Theory 116\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMetabolism and Regulation I: Locational Ethnography 122\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMetabolism and Regulation II: Multicity Ethnography 130\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 132\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5. Rescaling Urban Metabolism II: Homeless Labour for Money 135\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHomeless Recyclers: A Regulationist Approach 136\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHomeless Recyclers in Japan 139\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRegulationist Ethnography I: Regulating the Recycling Metabolism 143\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRegulationist Ethnography II: New Recycling Strategies 147\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRegulationist Ethnography III: Movements for Homeless Recyclers 150\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 153\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Three Urban Social Movements 155\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6. Placemaking in the Inner City: Social and Cultural Niches of Homeless Activism 157\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Inner City: Beyond Regulation 158\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLefebvre in the Inner City 159\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJapanese Contexts 166\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePlacemaking in Yokohama's Inner City: From Run-Ups to the 1970s 170\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePlacemaking in Yokohama's Inner City: The 1980s 176\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePlacemaking in Yokohama's Inner City: The 1990s 180\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 183\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7. Commoning around the Inner City: Whose Public? Whose Common? 186\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommoning, Habiting, Othering 187\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommoning against Othering 189\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJapanese Parameters of Commoning 191\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommoning in Yokohama in the 1970s 192\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommoning in Yokohama in the 1980s 198\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommoning in Yokohama in the 1990s-2000s 203\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 214\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8. Translating to New Cities: Geographical and Cultural Expansion 216\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOutlying Cities 217\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBrokerage and Translation 220\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePlacemaking in the Outlying Cities 224\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommoning in the Outlying Cities 229\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSolidarity against a New Rescaling 234\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 236\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Four Towards the Future of Rescaling Studies 239\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9. New Rescalings in Japan 241\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUpscaling of Homeless Politics in the Late 2000s 241\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNeoliberalisation and Workfarist Reform in the 2010s 246\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRescaling for All 249\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhen Public Spaces Are Closed 251\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRepoliticising the Urban 253\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Inner City against Gentrification 254\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCOVID-19, Rescaling, Recommoning 256\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e10. Conclusion 258\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUrban Theory and Ethnography 261\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRemapping Urban Political Economy 262\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHabitat and Urban Class Relations 263\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntegral State Rescaling 264\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 265\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 294\u003c\/p\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\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\u003e provides 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—national states, public and private spaces, and urban social movements—uncover the hidden dynamics of rescaling that emerge, and are resisted, at the fringes of mainstream (domiciled) 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. \u003ci\u003eRescaling Urban Poverty\u003c\/i\u003e cross-fertilises these 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‘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\u003eNeil Brenner, Lucy Flower Professor of Urban Sociology, University of Chicago\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\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\u003eNik Theodore, Head of the Department of Urban Planning and Policy, University of Illinois Chicago\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989946253541,"sku":"NP9781119690979","price":94.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781119690979.jpg?v=1761785993","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/rescaling-urban-poverty-isbn-9781119690979","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}