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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...
Debates
Covid-19, War, and Working-Class Neighborhoods
Pierre Gilbert & translated by Oliver Waine
- 5 June 2020
The residents of France’s working-class neighborhoods, accused of exacerbating the coronavirus pandemic through...
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...
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...
Debates
Can Cannabis Be Legalized in France Without Inflaming the
Banlieues
?
Christian Ben Lakhdar & Aymeric Reyre & translated by Oliver Waine
- 5 July 2019
France is a place of paradoxes: cannabis is widely consumed, and yet legalization does not seem to be on the cards,...
Debates
Masculine Sports and “Respectable” Men in Working-Class Neighborhoods
Carine Guérandel & translated by Oliver Waine
- 12 March 2019
In a work rich in ethnographic material, Akim Oualhaci questions how socialization through sports contributes to...
From the Field
Photography, Ethnography and Exhibitions in the Projects
Camilo León-Quijano & translated by Oliver Waine
- 11 January 2019
Pictures taken by photographer and sociologist Camilo León-Quijano with the initial aim of understanding the...
From the Field
The Americanization of French social movements? Community organizing and its discontents in the
banlieues
Julien Talpin
- 29 June 2017
In this second of two articles, sociologist Julien Talpin discusses the importation to France of American...
From the Field
What’s the matter with the
banlieues
? Exploring the importation of the American community organizing tradition by French social movements
Julien Talpin
- 22 June 2017
With the eclipse of the once-powerful Communist and Socialist Parties in France, and these parties’ traditional...
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...
From the Field
Visual Sociology: Re-Imaging Marseille’s Housing Projects
William Kornblum
- 10 July 2015
New York sociologist William Kornblum has brought back pictures of the Marseille Northern Housing Projects—the...
Debates
Using heritage status to combat segregation: the case of French housing estates
Marc Bertier & Hervé Marchal & Jean-Marc Stébé & translated by Oliver Waine
- 22 October 2014
Challenging the idea that demolishing housing estates is all it takes to eradicate the social problems with which...
Reviews
How journalists see “the suburbs”: lifting the veil on a cliché
Julie Sedel & translated by Oliver Waine
- 10 September 2014
“La banlieue”: in France, few terms convey such a clear and constant image: high-rise social housing, young men “of...
Essays
Another Vision of the Suburbs
Jean-Christophe Bardot & Laurent Devisme & translated by Oliver Waine
- 7 May 2014
Images of the urban fringes of French cities often tend either to condemn their ugliness or to revel in a strange...
Essays
Racism: a blind spot in French urban sociology?
Élise Palomares & translated by Oliver Waine
- 2 October 2013
Why has the analysis of interethnic relations been so long ignored by French urban sociology? For Élise Palomares,...
Debates
The Negotiated Urbanism of Grand Paris Express
Lara Belkind
- 12 June 2013
In the fragmented context of Paris’s metropolitan and regional politics, the Grand Pari(s) design consultation and...
Essays
The media construction of the suburbs in France: looking back on the 2007 presidential campaign
Jean Rivière & Sylvie Tissot & translated by Oliver Waine
- 23 May 2012
In the run-up to the recent French presidential elections, the question of la banlieue – the (generally poor)...
Debates
Homosexual City, Homophobic Banlieue?
Éric Fassin & translated by Christina Mitrakos
- 9 March 2011
Is homophobia prevalent in social housing projects? Is sexual orientation the new divide between civilizations? Éric...
Series
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The Resurgence of Towers in European Cities
Children in the City
The Renewed Relevance of Urban-Planning Models?
Featured
From the Field
Arts Districts Without Artists
Meghan Ashlin Rich
- 23 March 2015
Numerous studies have examined gentrification’s harmful effects for low-income residents, but few examine the...
Debates
Interrupting Inequality: Crisis and Opportunity in Low-Income Housing Policy
Susan Saegert
- 26 January 2015
Inequality in the United States is deeply rooted in issues of property ownership, wealth, race and class....
Debates
Kanal İstanbul: a “crazy project” serving political ambitions
Yoann Morvan & translated by Oliver Waine
- 7 December 2011
The current proliferation of mega-projects in the Istanbul metropolitan area is both undeniable and impressive. The...
Other resources online
Are Homeless People “Vagrants”?
Mobile Lives Forum
The image of the “homeless person” is associated with the older figure of the wandering vagrant. In reality,...
Mobilities: The French Government Has to Back Up Its...
Mobile Lives Forum
In the field of transportation, France’s “ecological transition” is inadequate when it comes to meeting the challenges...
Twelve Discourses of Climate Delay in the Transportation...
Mobile Lives Forum
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Mobile Lives Forum
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Digital Nomads in the Era of the Covid‑19 Pandemic
Mobile Lives Forum
No longer deciding where you live based on where you work – that is the choice made by digital nomads, the traveling...
Personal Carbon Allowances for Travel: Is It Possible, Fair, and...
Mobile Lives Forum
Transportation is responsible for 30% of greenhouse-gas emissions in France, and this figure is constantly...
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