photography

From the Field

Photographing Prison

Andrea Eichenberger & Carole Gayet-Viaud & Valérie Icard & translated by Oliver Waine - 2 October 2020
The photographs presented here were taken by Andrea Eichenberger at the former men’s and women’s prison in Beauvais,...
From the Field

Photography, Ethnography and Exhibitions in the Projects

Camilo León-Quijano & translated by Oliver Waine - 11 January 2019
Pictures taken by photographer and sociologist Camilo León-Quijano with the initial aim of understanding the...
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

Photographing the Slums of 1900s Berlin

Danièle Voldman & translated by Oliver Waine - 14 September 2018
At the turn of the 20th century, the dramatically poor conditions of urban working-class housing was a cause of...
From the Field

“Enfantillages”: photographing children (and their parents) in public space

Fabien Desage & translated by Oliver Waine - 4 March 2016
Why are children photogenic? Political sociologist Fabien Desage reflects upon his practices as a photographer and...
Essays

Another Vision of the Suburbs

Jean-Christophe Bardot & Laurent Devisme & translated by Oliver Waine - 7 May 2014
Images of the urban fringes of French cities often tend either to condemn their ugliness or to revel in a strange...
From the Field

The world of the blue-collar worker: changed, but not gone

Julian Mischi & Olivier Pasquiers & Caroline Pottier & Nicolas Renahy & translated by Oliver Waine - 19 February 2014
Despite deindustrialisation and increasingly acute economic difficulties in the former strongholds of heavy...
Essays

Migrant Destinies

Sylvaine Bulle & Laetitia Tura & translated by Oliver Waine - 15 January 2014
Although borders are often invisible, they govern people’s right to move freely, as well as clandestine migration...
From the Field

Mongolian (Urban) Homes

Lucile Chombart de Lauwe & Justine Pribetich & translated by Oliver Waine - 29 April 2013
The rapid urbanisation that Mongolia has undergone in recent years has changed the way its population lives. These...

Series

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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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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...
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...
Reviews

The Dangers of Security

Médéric Martin-Mazé & translated by Oliver Waine - 22 May 2015
In Against Security, Harvey Molotch highlights – through various examples, including the New York subway, airports,...

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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