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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
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
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
Covid-19 in Seine-Saint-Denis (2/2): How the Health System Exacerbates Inequalities
Audrey Mariette & Laure Pitti & translated by Oliver Waine
- 24 September 2021
Although public health measures and local solidarity have helped mitigate the impact of the coronavirus epidemic,...
From the Field
Can the New Economy Survive without Coffee Shops (and Their Wi‑Fi)?
Thomas R. Chung
- 21 September 2021
Thomas R. Chung argues that coffee shops play an important role in the creative and tech sectors of the...
From the Field
Covid-19 in Seine-Saint-Denis (1/2): When the Pandemic Entrenches Health Inequalities
Audrey Mariette & Laure Pitti & translated by Oliver Waine
- 17 September 2021
The Seine-Saint-Denis département, to the northeast of Paris, was hit particularly hard by the coronavirus pandemic....
From the Field
Inciting Hopes for the Future: Civic Activism in London, Mumbai, and Paris Amid the Covid‑19 Crisis
Öznur Yardımcı & Josué Gimel & Khushboo Srivastava & Jitendra Borday
- 8 June 2021
Ethnographic research in London, Mumbai, and Paris during Covid‑19 lockdowns reveals how civic associations filled...
From the Field
Policing Social Housing in Paris: The Role of GPIS
Virginie Malochet & translated by Oliver Waine
- 28 May 2021
Social landlords in France recently obtained the right to organize surveillance and security operations themselves...
From the Field
Covid‑19 in China: A Civil Society in the Making
Beiyi Hu
- 18 May 2021
Beiyi Hu examines responses to Covid‑19 in China, focusing on civil-society efforts at the social, political, and...
From the Field
Holding Their Own:
Gilets Jaunes
’ Occupation of Public Space
Antoine Bernard de Raymond & Sylvain Bordiec & translated by Oliver Waine
- 30 April 2021
The Gilets Jaunes (“Yellow Vests”) movement that emerged in France in the fall of 2018 was striking by dint of both...
From the Field
Reflections on Four Years of Housing-Justice Support Work with Mapping Action Collective
Sachi Arakawa & Tim Hitchins
- 13 April 2021
Mapping Action Collective, based in Portland, Oregon, leverages mapping and data to support housing-justice...
From the Field
Landlord Tech in Covid‑19 Times
Erin McElroy & Wonyoung So
- 30 March 2021
Covid‑19 has expanded trends in surveillance technology deployed by landlords and property managers—resulting in...
From the Field
Algeria’s
Hirak
: When a Social Movement Puts Citizenship Under the Microscope
Islam Amine Derradji & Amel Gherbi & translated by Oliver Waine
- 26 March 2021
The popular mobilization that rose up in Algeria in 2019 was not only a revolt against living conditions that had...
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
Industrial Wasteland and the Commons
Jules Desgoutte & translated by Oliver Waine
- 26 February 2021
Long considered places of experimentation, sharing and freedom, friches culturelles, or temporary cultural spaces,...
From the Field
Montreal’s Alleyways: A Laboratory for Democratic Life
Joëlle Zask & translated by Oliver Waine
- 12 February 2021
The participation of a city’s inhabitants in democratic life begins with forms of everyday sociability and...
From the Field
The Asylum Story: Narrative Capital and International Protection
Emily Reid
- 2 February 2021
Obtaining international protection relies upon an ability to successfully navigate the host country’s asylum regime....
From the Field
Electoral Organizing During a Pandemic: Lessons from Wisconsin
Aaron Shapiro
- 12 January 2021
The global Covid‑19 pandemic has radically altered social and political practices. Aaron Shapiro reflects on the...
From the Field
Manifested Stories
Rebecca Blythe Pryor
- 5 January 2021
Rebecca Pryor traces the history of the revitalization of the Bronx River, illustrating an alternative narrative to...
From the Field
Post-Election Dispatches from Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
Jamie Longazel
- 22 December 2020
Jamie Longazel reflects on organizing for the 2020 general election in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. A longtime...
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....
From the Field
The Financialization of Rent-Regulated Housing in New York City after Rent Reform
Benjamin F. Teresa
- 4 December 2020
In New York City, rent-controlled housing stock has been progressively deregulated over the last three decades, to...
From the Field
The Brazilian Experience of Financialization Through Urban Redevelopment: The Case of “Urban Operations”
Laisa Eleonora Marostica Stroher
- 1 December 2020
Laisa Stroher examines the history of large-scale urban regeneration projects in Brazil and shows how a policy...
From the Field
Fragile Financialization: The Struggle for Power and Control in Indian Real-Estate Investment
Llerena Guiu Searle
- 27 November 2020
How does the financialization of real estate—a global phenomenon—affect urban development in India? In this...
From the Field
Sale of the Century: Chicago’s Infrastructure Deals and the Privatization State
Philip Ashton & Marc Doussard & Rachel Weber
- 24 November 2020
Since 2004, the City of Chicago has been engaged in a new wave of infrastructure privatizations, selling...
From the Field
The Contestations and Contradictions of the New York City Housing Authority’s Plan for Mixed-Income Redevelopment
Valerie E. Stahl
- 10 November 2020
The New York City Housing Authority, faced with a capital shortfall of nearly $40 billion, is pursuing a series of...
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
Social Housing in Postcolonial Contexts
Clémence Léobal & translated by Oliver Waine
- 25 September 2020
What happens when national social-housing policies developed in mainland France are transposed in overseas...
From the Field
#IStayCamp
. Health Conditions, Food Deprivation and Solidarity Problems in the First Days of Lockdown in the Roma Villages of Rome
Carlo Stasolla & Tommaso Vitale
- 28 April 2020
Activist research in formal settlements of emergency housing in Rome during the Covid‑19 lockdown reveals how such...
From the Field
How the Youth of the
Banlieues
See the
Gilets Jaunes
Ahmed & Baptiste & Hachimia & Jeremy & Karima & Lisa-Marie & Louiza & Thibaut & translated by Oliver Waine
- 24 April 2020
Do the “Yellow Vests” and the youth of France’s banlieues share a common vision of the inequalities and discrimination...
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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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