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From the Field
Starve the Beast: Community-Owned and Community-Controlled Composting as an Alternative to Incineration in Baltimore
Nicole Fabricant
- 31 May 2022
Nicole Fabricant documents organizing efforts in Baltimore, led by youth of color, against a trash-to-energy...
From the Field
The Promises and Realities of Data-Driven Community Development
Austin Harrison
- 22 February 2022
Tennessee nonprofit Innovate Memphis has spent nearly a decade designing the Memphis Property Hub, a public data...
From the Field
Reflections on Four Years of Housing-Justice Support Work with Mapping Action Collective
Sachi Arakawa & Tim Hitchins
- 13 April 2021
Mapping Action Collective, based in Portland, Oregon, leverages mapping and data to support housing-justice...
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:...
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
Post-Election Dispatches from Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
Jamie Longazel
- 22 December 2020
Jamie Longazel reflects on organizing for the 2020 general election in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. A longtime...
From the Field
Cleaning and Care Worker Cooperatives in NYC: Empowerment Through Collectivization of Labor
Nora Komposch
- 8 December 2020
Worker cooperatives have been shown to reduce precariousness and economic exclusion of marginalized groups....
Interviews
Political Organizing Beyond the Election: An Interview with Rosa Saavedra in North Carolina
Rosa Saavedra & Edwin Mayorga
- 2 November 2020
Edwin Mayorga interviews organizer Rosa Saavedra from North Carolina. They discuss the political landscape and...
Interviews
Electoral Organizing in North Carolina: An Interview with Tomás Garduño
Tomás Garduño & Kate Selden
- 27 October 2020
Kate Selden interviews Tomás Garduño, a social-justice organizer, about his work in Lenoir County, North Carolina,...
Essays
Community-Rooted Organizations: Enhanced Accountability and Capacity Building for Community Development
Camryn Smith & Danielle Spurlock & Aliyah Abdur-Rahman & Kay Jowers
- 10 July 2020
Communities in Partnership, in Durham, North Carolina, uses a “community-rooted” approach to its work that leverages...
Essays
Homeless Theory and Research Collaboration: A Tribute to Nikita Price
Eric Goldfischer & Odilka Santiago
- 9 June 2020
At a time when too many people are dying, Eric Goldfischer and Odilka Santiago remember Nikita Price of Picture the...
From the Field
Community Movements and Housing Liberalism: Reflections on the Bank of America Low‑Income Housing Competition
Avi Garelick
- 15 October 2019
Avi Garelick describes how the imperative for realism in affordable housing production conflicts with the goals of...
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...
Series
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
Featured
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...
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...
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...
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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