Rescaling Urban Poverty Av Mahito Hayashi

<p><i>Rescaling Urban Poverty </i>discloses the hidden dynamics of state rescaling that ensnares homeless people at the fringes of mainstream society and housing regimes. </p><ul><li>Explains the oppressive effects of rescaling and its limits in the interplay of the state, domiciled society, public space, class formation, social movements, and capitalism</li><li>Uses ethnography as the re-ontologizing medium of critical theorization in Lefebvrean, Gramscian, and Marxian strands</li><li>Develops rich context-based arguments of homelessness, policy, and social movements in Japan</li><li>Discloses the radical geographies of placemaking, commoning, and translation that can create prohomeless urban environments under rescaling</li><li>Refines the method of abstraction to broaden the international scope of critical literatures and links different scholarly standpoints without obscuring disagreements</li></ul>