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Essays

Navigating Jefes Fantasmas in New York City’s Urban Platform Economy

Jackson Todd - 3 March 2023
How has the “platform economy” altered urban life, infrastructure, and labor? Jackson Todd examines New York City’s...
Reviews

Making Routes on the Sea

Natasha N. Iskander - 24 February 2023
Natasha N. Iskander reviews Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula by Laleh...
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Series

CALL FOR PAPERS | Black Power and Black Self-Determination in a New Time and New Spaces

The Editorial Board - 1 March
The Editorial Board is issuing a call for papers for a forthcoming special series in Metropolitics titled “Black Power and Black Self-Determination in a New Time and New Spaces.” We welcome submissions through May 1, 2023. There is a long history of Black power organizing in cities in the United States and around...
From the Field

Resisting the Neoliberal City? The Popular Initiative in Berlin

Thomas Chevallier - 17 February 2023
Western representative democracy is in crisis. In response, direct democracy is emerging as a possible path to...
From the Field

Closing the Loop or Looping Close By?

Marine Frantz & Gabriel Renault - 7 February 2023
Marine Frantz and Gabriel Renault explore the spatial dimension of the circular economy, particularly in regard to...
Reviews

The Black Middle Class, or the Harsh Reality of the American Dream

Sylvie Tissot & translated by Oliver Waine - 24 January 2023
The suburbs of the United States, once the epicenter of racial segregation, are now home to more African Americans...
Reviews

Episodes from the Social Life of the Delhi Metro

Sneha Mandhan - 20 January 2023
What is the impact of a new metro on a large and growing city? As new metros are cropping up across Asia, Rashmi...
Reviews

Cooperating in Democracies

Evan Casper-Futterman - 13 January 2023
Evan Casper-Futterman reviews Practicing Cooperation: Mutual Aid Beyond Capitalism by Andrew Zitcer, which reflects...
From the Field

Have Low-Income Households Been Failed by the Sale of Social Housing?

Matthieu Gimat & Manon Le Bon-Vuylsteke & Bruno Marot & translated by Oliver Waine - 6 January 2023
Since 2018, the selling-off of social housing in France, as in other countries in Europe, has accelerated. What are...
From the Field

Securing Shelter While Facing Eviction: The Case of Syrian Migrants in Lebanon

Dima El Khouri - 16 December 2022
Dima El Khouri documents the politics of securing housing for Syrian refugees in Lebanon. She shows the complex web...
Reviews

Underground Berlin: Where Infrastructure Meets Politics

Clarence Hatton-Proulx & translated by Oliver Waine - 2 December 2022
Water, electricity, gas: in Remaking Berlin, Timothy Moss presents a history of Berlin’s infrastructure networks...
From the Field

Plague and Urban Policy in Bombay, 1896–1914

Vanessa Caru & translated by Oliver Waine - 18 November 2022
What consequences can an epidemic have on a city? Vanessa Caru describes the ways in which a plague epidemic in...
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Series

CALL FOR PAPERS | Black Power and Black Self-Determination in a New Time and New Spaces
Urban Wastes, Present and Future
New York Dossier: The Food Industry Faces the Covid‑19 Pandemic
Cities in the Age of Financialization
Contemporary Housing Struggles: Crises, Activism, and Critical Research
New York Tech Dossier: The Dark Side of New York’s Tech Economy
Progressive Mayors and Urban Social Movements
Land Rights in the Urban Global South
Climate Change and Social Change

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From the Field

Covid-19 Transformed New York’s Destination Food Markets

Ivana Mellers - 5 October 2021
Ivana Mellers analyzes how New York’s destination markets—key spaces of economic and social interactions—coped during...
Reviews

Filming Ethnic Diversity in New York

Stéphane Tonnelat & translated by Christina Mitrakos - 21 October 2016
Frederick Wiseman’s fortieth documentary film, In Jackson Heights (2015), returns to an urban theme explored in...
From the Field

Looking Inward, Across the Border

Harel Shapira - 19 April 2016
In the constellation of anti-immigrant politics in the United States, groups like the Minutemen, civilians who...
Essays

The Political Aesthetics of Drag

Shaka McGlotten - 13 October 2015
Drag, or the diverse art form and culture of performance that typically plays with gender and sex, is an integral...
Debates

Disarm the Police

Gregory Smithsimon - 29 September 2015
In the current political debates about discriminatory policing, there has been a lack of serious discussion of...
Reviews

The Dangers of Security

Médéric Martin-Mazé & translated by Oliver Waine - 22 May 2015
In Against Security, Harvey Molotch highlights – through various examples, including the New York subway, airports,...

Other resources online

Cycles of Violence: Analysing Media Discourse in the Newspaper...

Mobile Lives Forum
How are cyclist and pedestrian deaths depicted in newspaper reports, and how do these reports help shape...

Lahti: The First Carbon-Rationing Experiment Applied to Local...

Mobile Lives Forum
The city of Lahti in Finland was the first to experiment with a carbon-trading scheme among its inhabitants to...

Is Rationing Carbon for Travel a Fair, Efficient, and Realistic...

Mobile Lives Forum
In the wake of the pandemic, a carbon tax at Europe’s borders is now on the agenda, but a domestic version for...

Reducing Carbon-Emitting Travel: A Factor of Social Cohesion and...

Mobile Lives Forum
As part of France’s Mission on the Future of the Economic Model of Public Transportation, commissioned by the French...

Strasbourg, An Example of a Cycling City

Mobile Lives Forum
Strasbourg is the leading city for cycling in France and a constant source of inspiration for all French cities...

The Trinity of Walking, Cycling and Public Transportation Must Be...

Mobile Lives Forum
While emissions from the transportation sector remain at a very high level, all hopes are currently pinned on the...

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