education

Interviews

Migration and Inequalities: The Importance of Social Class

Garance Clément & Claire Gellereau & Hélène Steinmetz & Anne-Catherine Wagner & translated by Oliver @Waine - 19 November 2021
Since the 1990s, Anne-Catherine Wagner’s research has focused on migrants from the most affluent classes in society....
Reviews

The Belhoumi Family and the Sociologist

Adèle Momméja & translated by Oliver @Waine - 15 October 2021
What are the objective and intimate conditions for the social ascension of the children of immigrants? And what...
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...
Reviews

Understanding School Closures in Chicago: A Review of Eve Ewing’s Ghosts in the Schoolyard

Ryan M. Good - 17 December 2019
Eve Ewing’s Ghosts in the Schoolyard portrays recent school reform efforts in Chicago through the eyes of those...
Reviews

Why School Securitization Fails. Lessons from Morrill and Musheno’s Navigating Conflict

Andrés Besserer Rayas - 8 October 2019
Navigating Conflict describes how pupils are able to address conflicts on their own, and how school securitization...
Interviews

Teaching Art and the History of Tattoos at Rikers Island: An Interview with Tamara Santibanez

Lisa Jean Moore - 22 January 2019
An interview with Tamara Santibanez, who teaches art and the cultural and social history of tattoos to youth...
Essays

The Educational Fortunes of Children of Immigrants in France

Mathieu Ichou & translated by Oliver @Waine - 6 July 2018
How can the attainment gap between children of immigrants and children of native-born parents be explained? While...
From the Field

The Everyday Activism of Chicago’s Public High-School Football Coaches

Lawrence Johnson - 13 March 2018
For several generations, high-school football programs have been an important part of the social fabric in...
From the Field

Projecting Supply and Demand for Middle-Skill Occupations in US States and Metro Areas

James Orr & Ofronama Biu - 10 October 2017
Analysts have long noted difficulties in quantifying and projecting skill mismatches in local labor markets....
From the Field

Building a Multifaceted Campaign for Public Higher Education

Stephen Brier & Michael Fabricant - 4 October 2016
In their new book, Austerity Blues: Fighting for the Soul of Public Higher Education, Michael Fabricant and Stephen...
From the Field

“Harriet Jacobs didn’t learn to read and write so that she could get an A”

C. Ray Borck - 3 May 2016
Confronted by school systems that persistently reproduce race- and class-based educational inequality, how can...
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...
Debates

Reskilling Urban Manufacturing: Workforce Solutions from the Inside Out

Nichola Lowe - 15 December 2015
In the United States, a four-year college education has gradually come to be assumed as a prerequisite for entry...
Essays

What we can learn from babies’ sociability

Carole Gayet-Viaud & translated by Oliver @Waine - 9 October 2015
The sociability of very young children reveals a neglected dimension of relations and interactions in public, and...

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Featured

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...
Essays

Sentinel Territories: A New Concept for Looking at Environmental Change

David Blanchon & Frédéric Keck & François-Michel Le Tourneau & Stéphane Tonnelat & Adriana Zuniga-Teran - 8 May 2020
In this essay, the authors develop the concept of “sentinel territories,” or environments where humans can perceive...
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...
Interviews

Teaching Art and the History of Tattoos at Rikers Island: An Interview with Tamara...

Lisa Jean Moore - 22 January 2019
An interview with Tamara Santibanez, who teaches art and the cultural and social history of tattoos to youth...
From the Field

Snowbirds’ Gift Economy in the Arizona Desert

David Frati - 7 November 2017
Each year, 200,000 retired people spend the winter in and around the small town of Quartzsite, Arizona, in the...

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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