Paul Christensen

Fraught Narratives, Contrived Futures: Tokyo’s Techno-Utopian Erasure of the Unhoused

Mirai – future – is ubiquitously written into Tokyo’s cityscape. Yet the promises embedded in future-oriented government initiatives like Health Japan 21, Innovation 25, Society 5.0, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), reveal a growing disconnect between techno-utopian...