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From the Field
Electoral Organizing During a Pandemic: Lessons from Wisconsin
Aaron Shapiro
- 12 January 2021
The global Covid‑19 pandemic has radically altered social and political practices. Aaron Shapiro reflects on the...
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...
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,...
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...
Reviews
Political Conservatism and the Working Classes in France
David Gouard & translated by Oliver @Waine
- 25 January 2019
In her latest book, Le Vote FN au village (“The National Front Vote in the Village”), sociologist Violaine Girard...
Essays
Far from the Ballot Box: The Political Exclusion of the Working Classes in France
Camille Peugny & translated by Oliver @Waine
- 4 July 2018
Following the French presidential and parliamentary elections of 2017, the question of equal access to the...
Essays
This is Not How it Ends: Post-Election Immigration Organizing in the United States
Folasade K. Famakinwa
- 7 December 2016
In response to a tense post-election moment in the US, the Metropolitics editorial committee has initiated...
Essays
Remaking Black Political Spaces for Black Liberation
Akira Drake Rodriguez
- 1 December 2016
What are the political implications of the redistribution of the Black population in the US? Akira Drake Rodriguez...
Debates
On Clinton, Obama, Trump and the Failures of Liberal Urban Policy
James DeFilippis
- 15 November 2016
Many progressives are still in shock at the outcome of the recent US presidential election. In this contribution to...
From the Field
The Communists’ Urban Archipelago
Roger Martelli & translated by Oliver @Waine
- 24 September 2014
While the Socialist Party was the big loser in France’s municipal elections in March, the French Communist Party was...
From the Field
The electoral effects of social divisions in French cities
Jean Rivière & translated by Oliver @Waine
- 2 July 2014
According to many commentators, France’s major cities are bastions of support for the parliamentary left when it...
From the Field
In the shadow of the mayor
Michel Koebel & translated by Oliver @Waine
- 25 June 2014
After his investigation into the representativeness of local councillors in France, Michel Koebel has now turned...
Debates
Preparing for a protest vote?
Rémi Lefebvre & translated by Oliver @Waine
- 18 June 2014
Between 2008 and 2014, the French Socialist Party was, more than ever before, a party of “local politicians”. Here,...
Reviews
The misunderstandings of European democracy
Philippe Aldrin & translated by Oliver @Waine
- 28 May 2014
Though an economic giant, the European Union still appears to be something of a political dwarf. Yet a political...
Debates
The grandeur and decadence of the suburbs
Violaine Girard & Jean Rivière & translated by Oliver @Waine
- 18 September 2013
Periurban areas emerged in the 2000s as “new” spaces indicative of recent changes in French society – the weakening of...
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...
Essays
Mapping votes and social inequalities: the case of Paris and its inner suburbs
Jean Rivière & translated by Oliver @Waine
- 27 June 2012
Analysing local contexts can prove particularly enlightening when it comes to understanding electoral processes,...
Essays
Explaining the periurban right-wing vote: “social frustrations” of low-income households or the reshaping of the working classes?
Violaine Girard & translated by Oliver @Waine
- 13 June 2012
There is a growing interest in voting patterns in periurban areas, which tend to lean to the right or even far...
Essays
Maps and opinion polls
Joël Gombin & Jean Rivière & translated by Oliver @Waine
- 6 June 2012
Presidential elections – a crucial moment in the democratic life of France – generate all sorts of analyses that seek...
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)...
Series
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
Shrinking Cities
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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