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From the Field
Contesting Economies of Displacement and Dispossession
Joshua Akers
- 13 January 2017
Joshua Akers describes Detroit’s housing crisis, characterized by speculation, displacement, and increasingly...
From the Field
Land Titling: A Tool, not a Panacea
Kareem Ibrahim & Deena Khalil
- 20 December 2016
The government of Egypt has long relied on land titling to limit the growth of informal urban residential...
From the Field
Struggles over Rights and Representations in the Migrant Metropolis: Reverberations of the Trump Effect in the Global South
María V. Barbero
- 7 December 2016
While Latin America figures in US debates about immigration as a source of immigrants, Trump-style anti-immigrant...
From the Field
Proclaiming “Veggie Pride” in Paris and New York
Elizabeth Cherry
- 22 November 2016
How do animal-rights activists promote vegetarianism? Many activists use environmental and health arguments, but...
From the Field
A Welcoming (and Sometimes Not) America: Immigrant Integration in the New South
Anna Joo Kim
- 1 November 2016
In a departure from traditional patterns of migrant settlement in the US, a cluster of ethnoburbs is emerging in...
From the Field
Liberty, Community and Religion: A Hispano-Moroccan Family in Andalusia
Alain Cottereau & translated by Oliver Waine
- 11 October 2016
In Europe, the relationship that migrants originating from the Arab Muslim world – whether first- or...
From the Field
Building a Multifaceted Campaign for Public Higher Education
Stephen Brier & Michael Fabricant
- 4 October 2016
In their new book, Austerity Blues: Fighting for the Soul of Public Higher Education, Michael Fabricant and Stephen...
From the Field
“We Are the Scene”: Alternative Art Economies in Bushwick
Mary Kosut
- 13 September 2016
Artists and art communities are essential to the cultural life of cities. In New York City, artists have created...
From the Field
The French Republic and the Paris Spring
Gregory Smithsimon
- 6 September 2016
Has the French Spring arrived yet? Gregory Smithsimon documents La Nuit Debout, a self-named social movement that...
From the Field
Securing Land Tenure in Egypt: Who Needs Registered Titles?
David Sims
- 14 June 2016
David Sims challenges popular wisdom on property-rights regimes in non-Western nations by questioning the relevance...
From the Field
The Flea Market of Marseille
Michèle Jolé & William Kornblum
- 17 May 2016
Marseille’s flea market (“marché aux puces”) lies at the heart of a vast urban renewal project that could end up wiping...
From the Field
“Harriet Jacobs didn’t learn to read and write so that she could get an A”
C. Ray Borck
- 3 May 2016
Confronted by school systems that persistently reproduce race- and class-based educational inequality, how can...
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...
From the Field
Where Did the Bees Go? New York City Beekeeping Amid Ecological Crises
Mary Kosut & Lisa Jean Moore
- 5 April 2016
The decline and extinction of bees and other pollinators threatens the global food supply. Residents in cities like...
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...
From the Field
“Enfantillages”: photographing children (and their parents) in public space
Fabien Desage & translated by Oliver Waine
- 4 March 2016
Why are children photogenic? Political sociologist Fabien Desage reflects upon his practices as a photographer and...
From the Field
The complex representations of working-class residential towers
Rachid Kaddour & translated by Oliver Waine
- 26 February 2016
Rachid Kaddour’s analysis of the trajectory of perceptions of the Plein‑Ciel tower in Saint‑Étienne in south-eastern...
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...
From the Field
The Hollowing-Out of New York City’s Industrial Zones
Tarry Hum
- 16 February 2016
At a November 2015 press conference, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio vowed to take action to ensure that firms in the...
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...
From the Field
The Boys of Sarajevo’s War Tunnel
Luka Lucić
- 12 January 2016
What are the impacts of war upon young people’s psychological development? Research with young men who survived...
From the Field
Beyond the stadium: how “ultra” supporters fit into the urban space
Bérangère Ginhoux & translated by Oliver Waine
- 11 December 2015
Based on an ethnographic survey conducted in Saint-Étienne, in south-eastern France, Bérangère Ginhoux shows how the...
From the Field
Social Diversity in Gentrified Neighborhoods: Child’s Play?
Jean-Yves Authier & Sonia Lehman-Frisch & translated by Christina Mitrakos
- 4 December 2015
How do children develop relationships? Do they meet children from socio-economic backgrounds other than their own?...
From the Field
Federal Anti-Segregation Milestones Demand Local Mobilization
Justin Steil
- 24 November 2015
In June 2015, the US Supreme Court affirmed a legal tool that stands to hold municipalities and lenders accountable...
From the Field
Civic Innovation and Creative Campaigns: How Fresh Ideas Are Compromising Local Democracy
Stephanie Savell & Gianpaolo Baiocchi & Elizabeth A. Bennett & Alissa Cordner & Peter Taylor Klein
- 27 October 2015
The trend of civic innovation in contemporary activism relies much on modern tools of communication as a...
From the Field
Visual Sociology: Re-Imaging Marseille’s Housing Projects
William Kornblum
- 10 July 2015
New York sociologist William Kornblum has brought back pictures of the Marseille Northern Housing Projects—the...
From the Field
Vancouverism: hybridisation and spread of an urban model
Nicolas Douay & translated by Oliver Waine
- 12 June 2015
The transformation that downtown Vancouver has undergone – which has since become a reference, known as...
From the Field
Taking Research to the Streets
Jonathan R. Wynn & Richard E. Ocejo
- 9 June 2015
Residents of iconic neighborhoods in New York City have grown accustomed to walking tourism in their midst—clumps of...
From the Field
Clitoral Mass: A Women-of-Color Ride Through Los Angeles
Jennifer Candipan
- 2 June 2015
Every year in the summer, a group of women, women of color, and women-identified riders cycle through the city of...
From the Field
The participatory production of temporary public spaces in times of crisis
Paula Orduña-Giró & Sébastien Jacquot & translated by Oliver Waine
- 8 May 2015
Are participatory measures a viable solution when it comes to developing urban spaces in times of crisis? According...
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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...
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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...
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