Mahito Hayashi
Biographic Data
| ID | 3720755 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mahito Hayashi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mahito |
| FAMILY NAME | Hayashi |
| SIGNATURE | HAYASHI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kinjo Gakuin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7427-9743 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Rescaling labor movements in Japanese and US cities
Debates over “constrained” labor agency open a chance to rethematize “scale” and “urban” in labor geographies. My work helps labor geography grasp how workers’ desire becomes a local locus of capitalist regulation and how this locus can constrain the labor movement into the form of grassroots counter-conducts engaged at the ground level. I analyze scales of labor movements and labor subjectivity in Japanese and US urban histories. These histories…
Community and Japanese Developmental Capitalism
Japan has a standard framework for local communities, neighborhood associations, which request all households in the same residential district to belong to one community unit that plays a local management role through closely working with authorities. By framing a concept of 'societalization' in Bob Jessop's state theory using Neil Brenner's 'scaled' political economy project, we decipher Japanese neighborhood associations as a scaled strategy fo…
Rescaling Urban Poverty
RESCALING 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 urba…
Any Labour Geographies in Urban Theory? Workers Meet Lefebvre and Harvey (Yet Again)
This paper examines the urban theory of Henri Lefebvre and David Harvey to construct an urban perspective on labour geographies. Lefebvre understood work in a work–nonwork continuum beyond binarism, and Lefebvre and Harvey hailed the outpouring of working‐class agency from cities. However, they may have obscured the role of labour movements in urbanisation when identifying the living‐place (such as streets, neighbourhoods, or housing) as the prim…
Theorizing Regulation-in-City for Homeless People's Subaltern Strategy and Informality
This paper aims to expand critical urban theory and spatialized political economy through developing a new, broad-based theoretical explanation of homelessness and the informal housing of the deprived in public spaces. After reviewing an important debate in geography, it systematicallyreasserts the relevance of class-related concepts in urban studies and, mobilizing post-determinist notions, it shows how a class-driven theory can inform the emerg…
Democracy Against Labor Movement
This paper investigates the labor-controlling orientation of the Japanese developmental state and its consequences today. Developmental state studies has given us a robust epistemological grid whereby we can make non-Western state formation intelligible. Yet, mainstream authors have tended to treat the working class as a mere appendage to state- business relations, relegating labor politics at the analysis of state- society relations. By using de…
Rescaled “Rebel Cities”, Nationalization, and the Bourgeois Utopia
Urban social movements (USMs) and regulation have co‐evolved in Japan to deal with homelessness, spatializaing their politics on the national and subnational scales. The author first theorizes these USM–regulation relationships as scale‐oriented dialectics between two opposing forces—“commoning and othering”—both of which in my view are always internalized in today's “rebel cities” (Harvey 2012, Rebel Cities , Verso). Then, he analyzes two trajec…
Urban Poverty and Regulation, New Spaces and Old
After the 1970s the new urban poverty (NUP) ballooned in Japan and the US, and it evoked policy responses that produced new, rescaled regulatory spaces to contain the poor on the fringe of social rights and the capital circuit. The paper illuminates this process through the comparison of Japanese and US trajectories, both of which, evolving through economic crises, have established unique pathways. The author first constructs a theoretical framew…
Times and Spaces of Homeless Regulation inJapan, 1950s-2000s
Since the late 1970s,AtlanticFordism has seen rising homelessness and ghettoization as the 'new urban poverty' (NUP) (Mingione, 1996). Despite some similarities, theNUPinJapan has a unique rhythm and spatial pattern. In order to exploreJapaneseNUP, this article develops an interpretation ofJapan's strategies to regulate poverty and homelessness during the last 50 years, paying particular attention to the spatial consequences of such strategies wi…
Times and Spaces of Homeless Regulation inJapan, 1950s-2000s
Since the late 1970s,AtlanticFordism has seen rising homelessness and ghettoization as the 'new urban poverty' (NUP) (Mingione, 1996). Despite some similarities, theNUPinJapan has a unique rhythm and spatial pattern. In order to exploreJapaneseNUP, this article develops an interpretation ofJapan's strategies to regulate poverty and homelessness during the last 50 years, paying particular attention to the spatial consequences of such strategies wi…
Rescaled “Rebel Cities”, Nationalization, and the Bourgeois Utopia
Urban social movements (USMs) and regulation have co‐evolved in Japan to deal with homelessness, spatializaing their politics on the national and subnational scales. The author first theorizes these USM–regulation relationships as scale‐oriented dialectics between two opposing forces—“commoning and othering”—both of which in my view are always internalized in today's “rebel cities” (Harvey 2012, Rebel Cities , Verso). Then, he analyzes two trajec…
Democracy Against Labor Movement
This paper investigates the labor-controlling orientation of the Japanese developmental state and its consequences today. Developmental state studies has given us a robust epistemological grid whereby we can make non-Western state formation intelligible. Yet, mainstream authors have tended to treat the working class as a mere appendage to state- business relations, relegating labor politics at the analysis of state- society relations. By using de…
Any Labour Geographies in Urban Theory? Workers Meet Lefebvre and Harvey (Yet Again)
This paper examines the urban theory of Henri Lefebvre and David Harvey to construct an urban perspective on labour geographies. Lefebvre understood work in a work–nonwork continuum beyond binarism, and Lefebvre and Harvey hailed the outpouring of working‐class agency from cities. However, they may have obscured the role of labour movements in urbanisation when identifying the living‐place (such as streets, neighbourhoods, or housing) as the prim…
Theorizing Regulation-in-City for Homeless People's Subaltern Strategy and Informality
This paper aims to expand critical urban theory and spatialized political economy through developing a new, broad-based theoretical explanation of homelessness and the informal housing of the deprived in public spaces. After reviewing an important debate in geography, it systematicallyreasserts the relevance of class-related concepts in urban studies and, mobilizing post-determinist notions, it shows how a class-driven theory can inform the emerg…
Urban Poverty and Regulation, New Spaces and Old
After the 1970s the new urban poverty (NUP) ballooned in Japan and the US, and it evoked policy responses that produced new, rescaled regulatory spaces to contain the poor on the fringe of social rights and the capital circuit. The paper illuminates this process through the comparison of Japanese and US trajectories, both of which, evolving through economic crises, have established unique pathways. The author first constructs a theoretical framew…
Times and Spaces of Homeless Regulation inJapan, 1950s-2000s
Since the late 1970s,AtlanticFordism has seen rising homelessness and ghettoization as the 'new urban poverty' (NUP) (Mingione, 1996). Despite some similarities, theNUPinJapan has a unique rhythm and spatial pattern. In order to exploreJapaneseNUP, this article develops an interpretation ofJapan's strategies to regulate poverty and homelessness during the last 50 years, paying particular attention to the spatial consequences of such strategies wi…
Urban Poverty and Regulation, New Spaces and Old
After the 1970s the new urban poverty (NUP) ballooned in Japan and the US, and it evoked policy responses that produced new, rescaled regulatory spaces to contain the poor on the fringe of social rights and the capital circuit. The paper illuminates this process through the comparison of Japanese and US trajectories, both of which, evolving through economic crises, have established unique pathways. The author first constructs a theoretical framew…
Rescaled “Rebel Cities”, Nationalization, and the Bourgeois Utopia
Urban social movements (USMs) and regulation have co‐evolved in Japan to deal with homelessness, spatializaing their politics on the national and subnational scales. The author first theorizes these USM–regulation relationships as scale‐oriented dialectics between two opposing forces—“commoning and othering”—both of which in my view are always internalized in today's “rebel cities” (Harvey 2012, Rebel Cities , Verso). Then, he analyzes two trajec…
Democracy Against Labor Movement
This paper investigates the labor-controlling orientation of the Japanese developmental state and its consequences today. Developmental state studies has given us a robust epistemological grid whereby we can make non-Western state formation intelligible. Yet, mainstream authors have tended to treat the working class as a mere appendage to state- business relations, relegating labor politics at the analysis of state- society relations. By using de…
Theorizing Regulation-in-City for Homeless People's Subaltern Strategy and Informality
This paper aims to expand critical urban theory and spatialized political economy through developing a new, broad-based theoretical explanation of homelessness and the informal housing of the deprived in public spaces. After reviewing an important debate in geography, it systematicallyreasserts the relevance of class-related concepts in urban studies and, mobilizing post-determinist notions, it shows how a class-driven theory can inform the emerg…
Rescaling Urban Poverty
RESCALING 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 urba…
Any Labour Geographies in Urban Theory? Workers Meet Lefebvre and Harvey (Yet Again)
This paper examines the urban theory of Henri Lefebvre and David Harvey to construct an urban perspective on labour geographies. Lefebvre understood work in a work–nonwork continuum beyond binarism, and Lefebvre and Harvey hailed the outpouring of working‐class agency from cities. However, they may have obscured the role of labour movements in urbanisation when identifying the living‐place (such as streets, neighbourhoods, or housing) as the prim…
Community and Japanese Developmental Capitalism
Japan has a standard framework for local communities, neighborhood associations, which request all households in the same residential district to belong to one community unit that plays a local management role through closely working with authorities. By framing a concept of 'societalization' in Bob Jessop's state theory using Neil Brenner's 'scaled' political economy project, we decipher Japanese neighborhood associations as a scaled strategy fo…
Rescaling labor movements in Japanese and US cities
Debates over “constrained” labor agency open a chance to rethematize “scale” and “urban” in labor geographies. My work helps labor geography grasp how workers’ desire becomes a local locus of capitalist regulation and how this locus can constrain the labor movement into the form of grassroots counter-conducts engaged at the ground level. I analyze scales of labor movements and labor subjectivity in Japanese and US urban histories. These histories…
Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (4 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Capitalism (3 works)