By advancing a broad research program for homelessness and poverty, Rescaling Urban Poverty provides the essential understanding of how state rescaling ensnares homeless people and the impoverished in the interplay of the state, domiciled society, public space, class formation, 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 society and housing regimes. Evidence is drawn from Japanese cities where the author has conducted long-term fieldwork and develops robust urban narratives by drawing upon regulation theory, state theory, metabolism theory, and critical housing theory. The book cross-fertilizes 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.
