Description:
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, and addresses the origins of increased homelessness in the country
Review Quotes:
"Hasegawa's analysis of the movement challenges much of static resource mobilization and political process theory and contributes to a more dynamic relational perspective....We Are Not Garbage! is important reading for scholars in the fields of social movements and urban inequality, where knowledgeof class conflict in the diverse contexts of a globalizing world is crucial for theoretical and practical purposes."--Matthew Marr, Florida International University, volume 116, number 6 (1 May 2011) of the American Journal of Sociology