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From the Field
Spaces of Inclusion and Exclusion: Algerians in Paris, France
Elizabeth Nelson
- 4 October 2022
In the context of contemporary French republicanism, how do Algerians in Paris assert their identities and...
From the Field
Inciting Hopes for the Future: Civic Activism in London, Mumbai, and Paris Amid the Covid‑19 Crisis
Öznur Yardımcı & Josué Gimel & Khushboo Srivastava & Jitendra Borday
- 8 June 2021
Ethnographic research in London, Mumbai, and Paris during Covid‑19 lockdowns reveals how civic associations filled...
From the Field
Policing Social Housing in Paris: The Role of GPIS
Virginie Malochet & translated by Oliver Waine
- 28 May 2021
Social landlords in France recently obtained the right to organize surveillance and security operations themselves...
Debates
Aéroports de Paris: A Strategic Lever for the French State?
Nathalie Roseau & translated by Oliver Waine
- 26 January 2021
Following growing controversy surrounding the French government’s plans to privatize the Aéroports de Paris (ADP)...
Interviews
In Search of Grand Paris: Pierre Mansat on the Eve of the June 2020 Municipal Elections
Magda Maaoui & Pierre Mansat
- 26 June 2020
Magda Maaoui interviews Pierre Mansat, former deputy mayor of Paris and a founding father of “le Grand Paris” (the...
From the Field
How the Youth of the
Banlieues
See the
Gilets Jaunes
Ahmed & Baptiste & Hachimia & Jeremy & Karima & Lisa-Marie & Louiza & Thibaut & translated by Oliver Waine
- 24 April 2020
Do the “Yellow Vests” and the youth of France’s banlieues share a common vision of the inequalities and discrimination...
Essays
Educating Tenants: A Historic Remit of Social Housing
Danièle Voldman & translated by Oliver Waine
- 17 April 2020
In France, the professions of social worker and concierge both emerged in the early 20th century, and both...
Reviews
Aubervilliers: Portrait of a Working-Class Suburb
Anaïs Albert & translated by Oliver Waine
- 21 February 2020
The republication of an early-20th‑century realist novel set in the northern Paris suburb of Aubervilliers brings...
From the Field
Nuits Debout
Across Greater Paris: The Spread of a Political Innovation
Laurent Beauguitte & Nicolas Lambert & translated by Oliver Waine
- 20 December 2019
As France experiences strikes and demonstrations in protest against pension reforms, we look back to the spring of...
From the Field
Who Cleans Paris? Garbage Collectors in Their Own Words
Coline Ferrant & Marie Mourad & translated by Oliver Waine
- 21 June 2019
Who are Paris’s garbage collectors? Coline Ferrant and Marie Mourad highlight the diverse working conditions covered...
From the Field
Moving Inside City Limits: The Urban Mobility of Undocumented Youth
Stephen P. Ruszczyk
- 4 June 2019
The urban context and public transportation shape how undocumented youths move within cities. In a comparison of...
Debates
Private Infrastructure and Urban Government: How Vélib’ Veered Off Course in Paris
Maxime Huré & translated by Oliver Waine
- 17 May 2019
When the city of Paris entrusted its decade-old bike-share service, Vélib’, to a new provider in January 2018,...
Essays
Migrants’ Occupation of Lycée Jean Quarré: The Refugee Cause and the Cause of a Neighborhood
Isabelle Coutant & translated by Oliver Waine
- 16 November 2018
The flows of migrants seeking refuge in Europe since the summer of 2015 have led to temporary settlements—legal or...
Essays
The Happy Few and the Unhappy Many: Endangered Artists in Global Cities
Boris Grésillon & translated by John Barrett
- 15 June 2017
While participating or having participated in reshaping urban spaces, artists seem to be increasingly driven away...
From the Field
Rendering a Redeveloped France
Alex Schafran & Giorgia Aiello & Theresa Enright & Yohann Le Moigne
- 7 June 2017
As urban redevelopment projects remake the Greater Paris region, it is impossible to separate an avalanche of new...
From the Field
Citizen Outsider: Racism, Marginalization, and Immigration in France
Jean Beaman
- 31 May 2017
As refugee crises have emerged and immigration has increased in many regions of the world, several Western...
Reviews
Between Green Paris and Immigrant Paris: The Politics of the Jardins d’Éole
Maura McGee
- 21 March 2017
As leaders in global cities reimagine and rebuild their metropolises as green capitals of the future, who has the...
From the Field
Proclaiming “Veggie Pride” in Paris and New York
Elizabeth Cherry
- 22 November 2016
How do animal-rights activists promote vegetarianism? Many activists use environmental and health arguments, but...
From the Field
The French Republic and the Paris Spring
Gregory Smithsimon
- 6 September 2016
Has the French Spring arrived yet? Gregory Smithsimon documents La Nuit Debout, a self-named social movement that...
Essays
The Wrecker’s Pick. The Rationales and Hidden Agendas of Urban Renewal in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Alain Faure & translated by Christina Mitrakos
- 7 June 2016
Alain Faure, a scholar of the social history of cities, puts urban renewal into perspective. He questions the...
From the Field
Childhood Spent Waiting at the Gate
Adeline Perrot & translated by Oliver Waine
- 1 April 2016
The recent opening of a holding area for “unaccompanied foreign minors” at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport reflects a...
From the Field
Social Diversity in Gentrified Neighborhoods: Child’s Play?
Jean-Yves Authier & Sonia Lehman-Frisch & translated by Christina Mitrakos
- 4 December 2015
How do children develop relationships? Do they meet children from socio-economic backgrounds other than their own?...
Reviews
Good neighbours? Homeless people as seen by those who live alongside them
Marine Maurin & translated by Oliver Waine
- 5 June 2015
Prejudices regarding the poorest in society die hard. Does living in proximity to some of these populations help...
Essays
Transport as both a function and a facilitator of metropolitan development?
Aurélien Delpirou & translated by Oliver Waine
- 12 February 2015
In Paris, Lyon and Marseille, the development of public transport is a central element of the metropolitan projects...
Essays
“I, you, he, she, we are all Charlie”: what feeling concerned means
Gérôme Truc & translated by Oliver Waine
- 5 February 2015
The attacks that took place in Paris in early January have affected French society in a way never seen before, as...
From the Field
In the Paris metro, hell is other people
Luke Haywood & Martin Koning & translated by Oliver Waine
- 15 January 2015
In the medical field, it is not unusual for remedies prescribed to combat a particular condition to have...
From the Field
The Communists’ Urban Archipelago
Roger Martelli & translated by Oliver Waine
- 24 September 2014
While the Socialist Party was the big loser in France’s municipal elections in March, the French Communist Party was...
Debates
The new banks of the Seine: all for the best, or just another Woody Allen set?
Mathieu Flonneau & translated by Oliver Waine
- 21 May 2014
June 2013 saw the completion of a project to transform the riverside expressway on the Left Bank of the Seine in...
From the Field
Coping with crowdedness in mass transportation
Martin Aranguren & Stéphane Tonnelat & translated by Oliver Waine
- 26 February 2014
Riding overcrowded metros, tubes or subways with dozens of strangers in varying moods is routinely viewed as a...
Reviews
Gentrification in Paris: the elite versus the people?
Colin Giraud & translated by Oliver Waine
- 29 January 2014
Anne Clerval’s latest work on the gentrification of Paris, published in September 2013, caused quite a sensation in...
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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,...
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Strasbourg, An Example of a Cycling City
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The Trinity of Walking, Cycling and Public Transportation Must Be...
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