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Consent-Based Social Dancing Spaces and the Right to the City
Rebecca Krisel
- 30 June 2020
Consent-based programs in social dancing venues in New York City are an initial step in supporting social dancing...
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...
Debates
Fixing the Accessibility Gap in Municipal Procurement
Emily Holloway & Nicholas Shatan
- 5 March 2019
How can minority- and women-owned businesses overcome structural disadvantages to building wealth through...
From the Field
Killing Them Softly: The Environmental Vulnerability of Black Women in Albany, New York
Tanesha A. Thomas
- 23 October 2018
In Albany’s South End, a predominantly low-income African-American neighborhood, tanks storing environmentally...
From the Field
Invisible Lines in the Sand: Bather Arrests in Early 20th-Century Los Angeles
Elsa Devienne & translated by Oliver @Waine
- 13 July 2018
Can beaches reveal the tensions that run through society at a given moment in time? Here, Elsa Devienne shows how...
Debates
How Anti-Trans Bathroom Bills Hurt Girls and Women
C. Ray Borck
- 16 May 2017
Do recent “bathroom bills” protect girls and women from sexual predators? Sociologist C. Ray Borck shows how—contrary...
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...
Debates
Impossible Compliance: Policing as Violent Struggle over Bodies and Urban Space
Michelle Billies
- 1 March 2016
The absence of charges brought in the case of a police murder of a Black lesbian in front of the homeless shelter...
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...
From the Field
Clitoral Mass: A Women-of-Color Ride Through Los Angeles
Jennifer Candipan
- 2 June 2015
Every year in the summer, a group of women, women of color, and women-identified riders cycle through the city of...
Reviews
All the Gayborhoods are White
Marcus Anthony Hunter
- 19 May 2015
The urban “gayborhood,” the place where gay men and women found refuge for their sexuality from bigotry, is gradually...
From the Field
Ambivalences of Gender Planning
Sandra Huning
- 23 January 2013
How can a gender approach be integrated into urban planning? Sandra Huning here considers this question and...
From the Field
Children’s autonomy and our relationship with public spaces
Clément Rivière & translated by Oliver @Waine
- 7 November 2012
The relationship between children and the city – a subject seldom studied in France in the past – has in recent years...
Reviews
From home to the workplace: “Mad Men” or the irresistible rise of women
Nicole Rudolph
- 14 March 2012
Mad Men is often viewed as the ultimate sexist TV series. Through an analysis of the behavior of men and women at...
From the Field
Gay populations as gentrifiers in Paris and Montreal
Colin Giraud & translated by Oliver @Waine
- 22 February 2012
Are “gay villages” a sign of gentrification? A comparison between the Marais in Paris – an area gentrified before...
From the Field
The Ladies Kingdom and Its Many Uses. A shopping mall in Riyadh for women only
Amélie Le Renard & translated by Eric @Rosencrantz
- 30 March 2011
The frenetic development of Riyadh in Saudi Arabia is unveiling new and unexpected urban realms, including a...
Debates
Homosexual City, Homophobic Banlieue?
Éric Fassin & translated by Christina @Mitrakos
- 9 March 2011
Is homophobia prevalent in social housing projects? Is sexual orientation the new divide between civilizations? Éric...
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
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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...
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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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