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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...
From the Field
Made in China, Sold in West Africa
Anne Bouhali & Nora Mareï & Mamadou Dimé & translated by Oliver Waine
- 31 May 2019
From a small border post between Senegal and Mauritania, Anne Bouahli, Nora Mareï and Mamadou Dimé follow the journey...
From the Field
How to Defend the Planet in Law
Valérie Cabanes & translated by Oliver Waine
- 19 April 2019
In the face of a growing raft of evidence that increasingly points to an imminent global catastrophe—the very...
From the Field
The Risk of “Foodwashing” in Calls for Innovative Urban Projects
Paula Macé Le Ficher & translated by Oliver Waine
- 22 February 2019
Paula Macé Le Ficher analyzes the ways in which farming and food issues have been integrated into calls for...
From the Field
Bare Mountaintops and Thirsty Cities: On California and its Snowpack
Sayd Randle
- 29 January 2019
Figuring how to represent the oncoming effects of climate change is a common challenge faced by whistleblowers and...
From the Field
Saving Ivy Island: A Civil War in North Portland
Lauren Everett
- 15 January 2019
Lauren Everett examines two different approaches by community activists confronting change in a tight-knit Portland...
From the Field
Photography, Ethnography and Exhibitions in the Projects
Camilo León-Quijano & translated by Oliver Waine
- 11 January 2019
Pictures taken by photographer and sociologist Camilo León-Quijano with the initial aim of understanding the...
From the Field
Race and Progressive Politics in Chicago
John J. Betancur & Leonor Vanik
- 9 January 2019
The progressive movement in Chicago may not be as broad-minded as depicted in the academic literature. Racial...
From the Field
Young People and Cars: A Case of Frustrated Desire?
Yoann Demoli & translated by Oliver Waine
- 30 November 2018
By comparing the results over time of a travel survey in western France, Yoann Demoli challenges the notion that...
From the Field
Backpedaling in Birmingham
William Grady Holt
- 20 November 2018
Despite the 2017 election of progressive, black mayors in major southern US cities, citizens who supported these...
From the Field
When Progressive Mayors Aren’t Enough: Homes for All and Trans-Local Social Movements
H. Jacob Carlson & Marnie Brady & Gianpaolo Baiocchi
- 13 November 2018
Progressive governments are often pulled away from their campaign promises by local growth-coalition interests or...
From the Field
Killing Them Softly: The Environmental Vulnerability of Black Women in Albany, New York
Tanesha A. Thomas
- 23 October 2018
In Albany’s South End, a predominantly low-income African-American neighborhood, tanks storing environmentally...
From the Field
Inclusive Place-Based Leadership: Lesson-Drawing from Urban Governance Innovations in Bristol, UK
Robin Hambleton
- 9 October 2018
Across the world, progressive city leaders are working to limit the damaging impact of decisions made by “placeless”...
From the Field
Beneath the Surface of Chinese Cities: Abandoned Places and Contemporary Ruins
Judith Audin & translated by Oliver Waine
- 28 September 2018
Urban ruins represent a marginal subject of research within the field of Chinese studies, and yet are a precious...
From the Field
The Leaderless Urban Social Movement as Problem and Solution
Caio Teixeira
- 25 September 2018
Today, with urban uprisings driven by leaderless social movements, the future of the would-be progressive agenda...
From the Field
Rio de Janeiro: An (Inequitably) Connected City?
Francesca Pilo’ & translated by Oliver Waine
- 21 September 2018
The tangled webs of electrical wires, a symbol of the favelas, are also the sign of an electricity service that...
From the Field
Invisible Lines in the Sand: Bather Arrests in Early 20th-Century Los Angeles
Elsa Devienne & translated by Oliver Waine
- 13 July 2018
Can beaches reveal the tensions that run through society at a given moment in time? Here, Elsa Devienne shows how...
From the Field
Dunkirk as a New “Laboratory” for Free Transit
Henri Briche & Maxime Huré & translated by Oliver Waine
- 29 June 2018
From September 2018, the public transport network in Dunkirk, France, will be free of charge for all users. Henri...
From the Field
Marielle Franco and Brazilian Democracy at a Crossroads
Natália Alves & Isabella Gonçalves Miranda & Felipe Magalhães
- 26 June 2018
Marielle Franco’s life and death raised questions about the limits of Brazil’s New Republic. It revealed the rising...
From the Field
Paving the Silk Road: Rethinking Ethnic Solidarity in Los Angeles’ Korean Garment District
Angie Y. Chung & Sookhee Oh
- 19 June 2018
In this piece on Koreans in Los Angeles’ garment industry, sociologists Angie Chung and Sookhee Oh discuss the...
From the Field
Land Regularization on the Fringes of Mexico City: A Recipe for Reducing Inequalities?
Jean-François Valette & translated by Oliver Waine
- 8 June 2018
Mexico City’s working-class neighbourhoods are the focus of numerous land-regularization operations. Jean-François...
From the Field
Land Insecurity in Khartoum: When Land Titles Fail to Protect Against Public Predation
Alice Franck & translated by Oliver Waine
- 6 June 2018
The unstable economic and political context in Sudan has encouraged people to invest massively in land in urban...
From the Field
You Can’t Kill Marielle
Meg Stalcup & Erika Robb Larkins
- 29 May 2018
Marielle Franco was part of a new generation of progressive activists in Brazilian politics. She was assassinated...
From the Field
Taste of Home: A Sociocultural Exploration of Food Habits and Health Among Bangladeshi Immigrants in New York City
Fatema Kamal
- 22 May 2018
Resettlement in an entirely different country may have drastic consequences for an individual’s health. This is...
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
Shanghai’s West Bund Cultural Corridor Exemplifies the Opportunities and Risks of State-Driven Cultural Development
Siqi Tu
- 8 May 2018
The West Bund Cultural Corridor in Shanghai is the latest entrant in a global competition to attract investment by...
From the Field
Planning for the Unimaginable: Puerto Rico and Strategies for Climate-Change Adaptation
Cecelia Walsh-Russo
- 1 May 2018
The damage from the two hurricanes that struck Puerto Rico was multiplied by US austerity plans that deprived the...
From the Field
The Territorial and Environmental Impacts of Climate Change in Germany
Dennis Becker & Stefan Greiving & Viola Schulze Dieckhoff & Thorsten Wiechmann
- 25 April 2018
In Germany, the territorial and environmental impacts of climate change intersect in key ways with the nation’s...
From the Field
Overcoming Climate Impacts Through Adaptive Capacity Building: Two Extreme Cases from Germany
Viola Schulze Dieckhoff & Thorsten Wiechmann
- 25 April 2018
Climate change and demographic change interact. Impacts of climate change do not solely result from climate...
From the Field
Climate and Demographic Change: The Need for an Integrative Approach to Spatial Planning in Germany
Dennis Becker & Stefan Greiving
- 25 April 2018
Climate change and demographic change are two megatrends that are often discussed without regard for their complex...
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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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