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(Re)Constructing Inequality: Community Development in Public and Private
Claire Dunning
- 14 December 2021
Claire Dunning reviews Jeremy R. Levine’s new book, Constructing Community, an ethnographic study of community...
From the Field
Understanding Why Homeless People Refuse Emergency Accommodation
Édouard Gardella & translated by Oliver Waine
- 9 March 2021
The refusal of emergency accommodation by many homeless people expresses the intensity of their attachment to the...
Essays
Poverty as a Social Stigma
Axelle Brodiez-Dolino & translated by Oliver Waine
- 13 December 2019
The distinction between the “deserving” and “undeserving” poor is deeply entrenched, and representations of poverty...
From the Field
Open-Air Auto Shops: Subsistence Jobs in Working-Class Neighborhoods
Collectif Rosa Bonheur & translated by Oliver Waine
- 25 October 2019
The informal activities of street mechanics observed by Collectif Rosa Bonheur in northern France attest to a much...
From the Field
Insecure Lives Under Extreme Climate Conditions: Insights from a Fishing Hamlet in Tamil Nadu, India
Devendraraj Madhanagopal
- 17 April 2018
In recent years, climate change–induced weather events have exacerbated poverty and insecurity in small fishing...
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...
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...
Essays
When Cities Fail, Babies Die
Monica J. Casper
- 2 February 2016
Detroit, Michigan is often identified as the worst city in the United States, with excessive poverty, racism, and...
Reviews
Good neighbours? Homeless people as seen by those who live alongside them
Marine Maurin & translated by Oliver Waine
- 5 June 2015
Prejudices regarding the poorest in society die hard. Does living in proximity to some of these populations help...
From the Field
Food Deserts and Wage Deserts: The Importance of Metaphor in Policy and Activism
Laura Wolf-Powers
- 28 April 2015
So-called “food deserts,” or neighborhoods deprived of businesses that sell healthy foods, are also poor...
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...
From the Field
When Predator Becomes Prey: Rental Housing in Low-Income Minority Neighborhoods
Clément Théry
- 2 February 2015
In the growing low-income rental market, predator and prey roles can shift, as landlords and tenants alike can fall...
From the Field
Slumdog Non-Millionaires
Rémi de Bercegol & Shankare Gowda
- 14 May 2014
In India, the dominant theme of megacities and their development has concealed the significance of small and...
Series
Black Power and Black Self-Determination in a New Time and New Spaces
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
Featured
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...
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...
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...
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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