1st Edition
We Are Not Garbage! The Homeless Movement in Tokyo, 1994-2002
By Miki Hasegawa
Copyright 2006
228 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
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Routledge
228 Pages
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Routledge
208 Pages
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Routledge
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This book offers a full history of a homeless movement in Tokyo that lasted nearly a decade. It shows how homeless people and their external supporters in the city combined their scarce resources to generate and sustain the movement. The study advocates a more nuanced analysis of movement gains to appreciate how poor people can benefit by acting collectively. It also draws attention to potential... Read more
1. Introduction 2. A Review of Literature 3. The Rise in Homelessness and Pre-Movement Interaction 4. Brokerage and the Initial Period (February 1994 - January 1996) 5. Repression and the Transitional Period (January 1996 - October 1997) 6. Certification and the Final Period (October 1997- December 2002) 7. Summary and Conclusions. Appendices.
Biography
Miki Hasegawa is Lecturer at Tokiwa University in Ibaraki, Japan.
