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Arrests of People Smugglers in Niger: A Criminalization of Mutual-Aid Practices in Migration Situations
Alizée Dauchy & translated by Oliver Waine
- 8 July 2022
From the point of view of the Northern states, international migration from the South now has its designated...
From the Field
Starve the Beast: Community-Owned and Community-Controlled Composting as an Alternative to Incineration in Baltimore
Nicole Fabricant
- 6 June 2022
Nicole Fabricant documents organizing efforts in Baltimore, led by youth of color, against a trash-to-energy...
From the Field
Lawyers and Borders: Using Legal Recourse to Oppose State Discretion?
Annalisa Lendaro & translated by Oliver Waine
- 6 May 2022
In the autumn of 2020, the prefecture of the Pas-de-Calais département, in northern France, prohibited associations...
From the Field
The Spectacle of Reuse: Recirculating Urban Salvage at Pittsburgh’s Construction Junction
Susan M. Ross
- 29 April 2022
Susan M. Ross examines a building-materials reuse center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, arguing that it is an...
From the Field
The Professionalization of Migrant Assistance in Tunisia
Camille Cassarini & translated by Oliver Waine
- 15 April 2022
In Tunisia, the management of sub-Sahran migration has in recent years become a new sector of employment. Camille...
From the Field
The Politics of Urban Heritage-Making in the Yongqingfang Redevelopment Project in Guangzhou, China
Yimeng Yang
- 29 March 2022
Yimeng Yang uses the case of a redevelopment project in Guangzhou, China, to interrogate heritage-led urban...
From the Field
The Promises and Realities of Data-Driven Community Development
Austin Harrison
- 22 February 2022
Tennessee nonprofit Innovate Memphis has spent nearly a decade designing the Memphis Property Hub, a public data...
From the Field
Refugee Encampment on Europe’s Borders
Marie Bassi & translated by Oliver Waine
- 4 February 2022
Much media attention on the issue of migration is focused on attempts to cross the Mediterranean Sea and the often...
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
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...
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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,...
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Cycles of Violence: Analysing Media Discourse in the Newspaper...
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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...
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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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