activism

Essays

Marielle Franco and the Fight for the City Statute in Rio de Janeiro

Ty Redden - 14 February 2025

Marielle Franco’s 2018 assassination roiled social media and sent shockwaves through activist communities. The...

Interviews

A Place for Women

Françoise Debats & Maïté Debats & Marik Geurts & Aurélie Nat & translated by Oliver Waine - 21 January 2025

For over 40 years, a feminist association called Apiaf, based in Toulouse in southwestern France, has been working...

Interviews

Education Myths, Black Self-Determination, and University Accountability to the City

Christopher R. Rogers & Laura Wolf-Powers - 8 March 2024

Laura Wolf-Powers interviews scholar and community organizer Chris Rogers about his extensive work in Philadelphia....

Essays

Feminist Non-Mixity: For Women or Against Men?

Alban Jacquemart & translated by Oliver Waine - 10 October 2023

For women, the choice to gather together serves a variety of objectives within feminist mobilizations. Looking back...

Essays

Teacher Unionism and the Bargain for the Common Good

Claire Cahen - 6 July 2021

Rank-and-file teachers across the United States challenge their unions to embrace social democratic ideals, and fight...

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...

Interviews

“Every Eviction is an Act of Violence”

Tara Raghuveer & Joshua Akers - 23 March 2021

Josh Akers interviews researcher, organizer, and activist Tara Raghuveer about her work with KC Tenants in Kansas...

Interviews

Fighting for Housing Justice: An Interview with Two Youth Organizers in Curtis Bay, Baltimore

Nicole Fabricant & Carlos Sanchez & Terriq Thompson - 16 March 2021

Two Baltimore youth organizers discuss the importance of community land trusts, for housing and beyond. ----...

Series

Contemporary Housing Struggles: Crises, Activism, and Critical Research

Joshua Akers - 12 March 2021

In this series, Metropolitics focuses on the intersection of organizing, technology, politics, and policy in urban...

From the Field

The Financialization of Rent-Regulated Housing in New York City after Rent Reform

Benjamin F. Teresa - 4 December 2020

In New York City, rent-controlled housing stock has been progressively deregulated over the last three decades, to...

From the Field

National and Urban Politics Converge in Moscow: Will Local Activism Prevail?

Anna Zhelnina - 1 October 2019

Recent elections in Moscow and across Russia reflect the convergence of local activism and national anti-Kremlin...

From the Field

Marielle Franco and Brazilian Democracy at a Crossroads

Natália Alves & Isabella Gonçalves Miranda & Felipe Magalhães - 26 June 2018

Marielle Franco’s life and death raised questions about the limits of Brazil’s New Republic. It revealed the rising...

From the Field

You Can’t Kill Marielle

Meg Stalcup & Erika Robb Larkins - 29 May 2018

Marielle Franco was part of a new generation of progressive activists in Brazilian politics. She was assassinated...

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 this...

From the Field

Civic Innovation and Creative Campaigns: How Fresh Ideas Are Compromising Local Democracy

Stephanie Savell & Gianpaolo Baiocchi & Elizabeth A. Bennett & Alissa Cordner & Peter Taylor Klein - 27 October 2015

The trend of civic innovation in contemporary activism relies much on modern tools of communication as a...

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...

From the Field

Food Deserts and Wage Deserts: The Importance of Metaphor in Policy and Activism

Laura Wolf-Powers - 28 April 2015

So-called “food deserts,” or neighborhoods deprived of businesses that sell healthy foods, are also poor...

Marielle Franco and the Fight for the City Statute in Rio de Janeiro

A Place for Women

Education Myths, Black Self-Determination, and University Accountability to the City

Feminist Non-Mixity: For Women or Against Men?

Teacher Unionism and the Bargain for the Common Good

Inciting Hopes for the Future: Civic Activism in London, Mumbai, and Paris Amid the Covid‑19 Crisis

“Every Eviction is an Act of Violence”

Fighting for Housing Justice: An Interview with Two Youth Organizers in Curtis Bay, Baltimore

Contemporary Housing Struggles: Crises, Activism, and Critical Research

The Financialization of Rent-Regulated Housing in New York City after Rent Reform

National and Urban Politics Converge in Moscow: Will Local Activism Prevail?

Marielle Franco and Brazilian Democracy at a Crossroads

You Can’t Kill Marielle

Proclaiming “Veggie Pride” in Paris and New York

Civic Innovation and Creative Campaigns: How Fresh Ideas Are Compromising Local Democracy

The Political Aesthetics of Drag

Food Deserts and Wage Deserts: The Importance of Metaphor in Policy and Activism

Series

Featured

Covid-19 Transformed New York’s Destination Food Markets

Moving Inside City Limits: The Urban Mobility of Undocumented Youth

Filming Ethnic Diversity in New York

Looking Inward, Across the Border

The Political Aesthetics of Drag

Disarm the Police

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