Times and Spaces of Homeless Regulation inJapan, 1950s-2000s
Historical and Contemporary Analysis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4382275 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mahito Hayashi (0000-0001-7427-9743, Department of Urban Liberal Arts Tokyo Metropolitan University 1‐1, Minamiosawa, Hachioji‐shi Tokyo 192‐0397 Japan, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1188-1212 |
| Publication date | 2013-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0309-1317 • E-ISSN: 1468-2427 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-2427.2012.01200.x |
| OpenAlex | W1932490465 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 24 |
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 within majorJapanese cities. First, I theorize long-term economic growth patterns as a basic parameter of poverty and homelessness regulation and present a periodization ofJapanese trends since the 1950s. Second, I analyze poverty inJapan and the transformation of national strategies of spatial regulation in the 1990s, when homelessness grew. Third, I examine the multi-scalar processes through which new regulatory spaces of homelessness were produced in the 1990s and 2000s, when failures of post-bubble crisis management ballooned inJapan. I argue that, through a dialectic between national/local rule-setting and homelessness, theJapanese state fragmented the dominant scale of poverty regulation, rescaled the site of homeless regulation and contained homelessness in relatively autonomized cities. I conclude that, from the 1990s until the late 2000s,Japan's homelessness and its contradictions tended to be transferred to the spheres of urban workfare and urban policing, which I call new regulatory spaces of homelessness, that lie around the fringes of national social rights
Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Political science · Poverty · Sociology · Homelessness and Social Issues · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Urban Planning and Governance
New State Spaces
The Visible Poor
Transcritique
Citizenship and Social Class
Beyond the Regulation Approach
Welfare and Capitalism in Postwar Japan
Urban Poverty and the Underclass
The Japanese Economy Reconsidered
From Financial Crisis to World-Slump
Urban governance and the production of new state spaces in western Europe, 1960–2000
Homelessness in Osaka
The Urban Restructuring Process in Tokyo in the 1980s
Regulating Japan? Regulation Theory versus the Japanese Experience
Variegated neoliberalization
Between Fixity and Motion
Great Transformation
Men of Uncertainty
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.46 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2024 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |