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Social Housing in Postcolonial Contexts
Clémence Léobal & translated by Oliver Waine
- 25 September 2020
What happens when national social-housing policies developed in mainland France are transposed in overseas...
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...
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
Beneath the Surface of Chinese Cities: Abandoned Places and Contemporary Ruins
Judith Audin & translated by Oliver Waine
- 28 September 2018
Urban ruins represent a marginal subject of research within the field of Chinese studies, and yet are a precious...
Reviews
Nature’s Worth: Using Human Markets to Value Ecosystems’ Contributions
Anna Krol & Lisa Jean Moore
- 20 February 2018
Mattijs van Maasakkers’ The Creation of Markets for Ecosystem Services in the United States: The Challenge of...
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...
From the Field
Liberty, Community and Religion: A Hispano-Moroccan Family in Andalusia
Alain Cottereau & translated by Oliver Waine
- 11 October 2016
In Europe, the relationship that migrants originating from the Arab Muslim world – whether first- or...
Reviews
Evictions and Poverty
Hilary Botein
- 28 June 2016
Matthew Desmond’s Evicted has drawn much-needed attention to the under-studied problem of unsubsidized rental...
Reviews
On Being Black and Poor in a Small City
Peter Moskos
- 24 May 2016
No Way Out, Waverly Duck’s recent examination of how African Americans in an impoverished small city construct a...
Reviews
Neighborhood Change and the Right to the City
Adam Tanaka
- 29 March 2016
New York City’s Stuyvesant Town is the largest housing development in Manhattan, and also one of the most...
From the Field
The Other Side of Austin, Texas
Caitlyn Collins & Katherine Jensen & Kristine Kilanski & Javier Auyero
- 2 March 2015
Despite a booming economy, Austin, Texas, is a city where inequalities persist and grow in the shadow of neoliberal...
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...
Reviews
Urban Ethnography: A Handbook
Daniel Cefaï & translated by Oliver Waine
- 3 April 2013
Since the 1980s, the field of ethnography has enjoyed a return to favour in the social sciences. Richard E. Ocejo’s...
Series
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
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
Perhaps one of the few good-news items of the 2020s is that climate denial is on its way out. In most of Europe, it...
Being a Bicycle Delivery Rider: Passion or Exploitation?
Mobile Lives Forum
In recent years, takeaway delivery has exploded, in a context where consumer practices are changing, last-mile...
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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