police

Debates

When Does Police Violence Cause Urban Unrest?

Cathy Lisa Schneider - 14 November 2017
In the summer of 2014, police killed Michael Brown in Ferguson and Eric Garner in New York. Both men were black and...
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

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...
From the Field

A Geography of Revolt in Alexandria, Egypt’s Second Capital

Youssef El Chazli - 23 February 2016
How does the layout of a city affect how protest unfolds? How does urban space constrain and enable the choices...
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...
Debates

Hardening Racial Lines in Public Space

Naomi Adiv - 7 July 2015
On Friday, June 5, Black teenagers in McKinney, Texas, were violently subdued by a police officer following a...
Debates

Identity checks and the law

Nathalie Ferré & translated by Oliver @Waine - 24 April 2013
In France, the issue of identity checks is at the heart of the thorny debate on how to ensure better relations...
Reviews

Algerians and the police: colonial continuities and the weight of war

Françoise de Barros & translated by Oliver @Waine - 13 March 2013
How can the treatment suffered by Algerians at the hands of the Paris police in the mid‑20th century be explained?...
Essays

The police and the “Algerian medinas” in France. Argenteuil, 1957–1962

Emmanuel Blanchard & translated by Oliver @Waine - 7 March 2012
Fifty years after the end of the Algerian War of Independence, it should not be forgotten that this conflict was...

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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...

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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