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Urban Bottoms in Six Global Cities
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This book focuses on the urban bottom, particularly the very bottom people, in six global cities: Tokyo, New York, Paris, Nairobi, Mexico City, and Manila. Urban bottom is a hierarchical concept th...
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20 August 2026

This book focuses on the urban bottom, particularly the very bottom people, in six global cities: Tokyo, New York, Paris, Nairobi, Mexico City, and Manila. Urban bottom is a hierarchical concept that captures urban populations systematically bottomized under neoliberal capitalism. Using urban bottom as its key analytical concept, the book examines the labor, everyday lives, social networks, mobility, and lifeworlds of these populations, including female workers, young people, immigrants, sex workers, slum residents, street vendors, homeless individuals, and welfare recipients. It explores how they struggle to survive amid informal and unstable living conditions, and offers a typological analysis that reveals similarities and differences across cities.
Price: $152.00
Pages: 399
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Studies in Critical Social Sciences
Publication Date:
20 August 2026
ISBN: 9789004764873
Format: Hardcover
Hideo Aoki, Ph.D. (2000), the chief director of Institute of Social Theory and Dynamics in Hiroshima. He has studied homelessness in Japan. He is co-editor of Bottom Worker in East Asia: Composition and Transformation under Neoliberal Globalization (Brill, 2023).
Motoji Matsuda is a specially appointed professor at the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature. He organized the African Potentials Project to decentralize Western-centric humanities and is the general editor of the eight-volume African Potentials Series.
Motoji Matsuda is a specially appointed professor at the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature. He organized the African Potentials Project to decentralize Western-centric humanities and is the general editor of the eight-volume African Potentials Series.