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From the Field
Double Jeopardy for Single-Parent Families: When Housing Conditions and Lockdown Collide
Laure Crepin & Fanny Bugeja-Bloch & translated by Oliver Waine
- 5 November 2021
Single-parent families are among those households most affected by economic precarity and the current health...
From the Field
Between Two Crises: New York’s Artisanal Food Startup Founders
Nga Than
- 28 September 2021
The Covid‑19 pandemic forced a pause to a decade of growth for New York City’s artisanal food startups. Strategies...
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...
From the Field
Cleaning and Care Worker Cooperatives in NYC: Empowerment Through Collectivization of Labor
Nora Komposch
- 8 December 2020
Worker cooperatives have been shown to reduce precariousness and economic exclusion of marginalized groups....
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
Rio de Janeiro: Storms, Militia, and Urban Development
Leandro Benmergui & Rafael Soares Gonçalves & translated by Oliver Waine
- 8 November 2019
The dramatic consequences of storms at the beginning of 2019 in a favela in Rio de Janeiro reveal the ongoing...
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
Immigrant Men and Voluntary Work in a Swiss City
Agnès Aubry
- 15 May 2018
Across Europe, refugees and immigrants find themselves in uncertain civil and legal territory; precariousness...
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
How Children Cope When Home is a Hotel
Erwan Le Méner & translated by Christina Mitrakos
- 5 February 2016
Emergency housing in social hotels is affecting a growing number of families in the Paris region. How does this...
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...
Debates
Precarity and Gentrification: A Feedback Loop
Samuel Stein
- 14 April 2015
How do rent hikes and labor precarity conspire to reinforce each other against tenants and workers? Samuel Stein...
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...
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...
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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