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Debates
Discrimination and Everyday Politicization in Working-Class Neighborhoods in France
Marion Carrel & translated by Oliver Waine
- 8 October 2024
Drawing on a collective study, Marion Carrel highlights how experiences of discrimination structure people’s...
From the Field
¡Yo soy Boricua!
Identity-related work and collective elevation strategies among New York Puerto Ricans
Audrey Célestine & translated by Oliver Waine
- 5 May 2023
Puerto Ricans in New York City form a minority group in the struggle against discrimination. Audrey Célestine shows...
Debates
Depending on a Curse: What History Tells Us About Property-Tax Reform in New York City
Daniel Wortel-London
- 12 July 2022
Daniel Wortel-London discusses New York’s discriminatory policies and taxes and asks: can a tax system as cumbersome...
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
The Treatment of “North Africans” in 1960s Urban Renewal in France
Janoé Vulbeau & translated by Oliver Waine
- 1 February 2019
While France’s 1960s urban renewal has been studied in terms of its effects on the working classes, its racial...
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
Closed Quarters
William Helmreich
- 13 December 2016
As we contemplate an era marked by official hostility to fair-housing laws, we would do well to heed the...
From the Field
Federal Anti-Segregation Milestones Demand Local Mobilization
Justin Steil
- 24 November 2015
In June 2015, the US Supreme Court affirmed a legal tool that stands to hold municipalities and lenders accountable...
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
Ethnic discrimination in social housing
François Bonnet & translated by Oliver Waine
- 12 March 2014
Valérie Sala Pala has investigated the extent to which ethnic criteria come into play in the allocation of social...
Debates
Do local politicians represent the people? A sociological portrait
Michel Koebel & translated by Oliver Waine
- 28 November 2012
France’s 500,000 local councillors are regularly presented as the most popular elected officials and those closest...
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
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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...
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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