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Women Farmers Doing It for Themselves? The Ambiguous Consequences of Non-Mixed Engagement

Clémentine Comer & translated by Oliver Waine - 1 November 2022

In the farming world, many women’s groups defend the cause of women farmers. Clémentine Comer analyzes the...

Debates

Changes in Contemporary Brazilian Housing Policy: The Dismantling of Social Housing and Grassroots Mobilization

Thalles Vichiato Breda - 21 October 2022

Thalles Vichiato Breda argues that since 2016, with the rise of right-wing governments in Brazil, the federal...

From the Field

Spaces of Inclusion and Exclusion: Algerians in Paris, France

Elizabeth Nelson - 4 October 2022

In the context of contemporary French republicanism, how do Algerians in Paris assert their identities and...

Essays

The Emergence of Ecological Thinking in the City

Charles-François Mathis & translated by Oliver Waine - 27 September 2022

What place does ecological thinking have in the field of urban planning? In describing the use of vegetation in...

Debates

The Slow Violence of Planned Obsolescence

Elise Mason - 20 September 2022

Elise Mason critiques planned obsolescence as a form of slow violence. She argues for an ethic of care, rooted in...

From the Field

Lockdown Experiences of the Youth of the Paris Banlieues

Jeanne Demoulin & Collectif Pop-Part & translated by Oliver Waine - 16 September 2022

How did young people from working-class neighborhoods in France experience lockdown during the Covid-19 crisis? A...

From the Field

The Postponed Tokyo 2020 Games: From Planning Conflicts to Covid

Raphaël Languillon-Aussel & translated by Oliver Waine - 9 September 2022

One of the many consequences of the Covid‑19 pandemic was the postponement of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, held in...

From the Field

Power in the Periphery: Waste Conflict and Resistance in Periurban Kerala

Ashish Prabhakar - 6 September 2022

Ashish Prabhakar analyzes one Indian village’s fight against a city waste processing plant in 2011–2012, illustrating...

Metropolitics

Summer Reading 2022

The Editorial Board - 22 July 2022

The Editorial Board is now on summer break and will be posting new articles again starting on Tuesday, September 6,...

Reviews

New York City’s Descent into Neoliberal Policy: A Review of Benjamin Holtzman’s The Long Crisis

John Krinsky - 19 July 2022

Benjamin Holtzman’s The Long Crisis tells the story of New York’s prolonged descent into neoliberal policy. For those...

Debates

Depending on a Curse: What History Tells Us About Property-Tax Reform in New York City

Daniel Wortel-London - 12 July 2022

Daniel Wortel-London discusses New York’s discriminatory policies and taxes and asks: can a tax system as cumbersome...

From the Field

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...

Reviews

Disposability in the City: A Review of Waste Worlds

Lily Baum Pollans - 5 July 2022

Lily Pollans reviews Jacob Doherty’s Waste Worlds: Inhabiting Kampala’s Infrastructures of Disposability, which shows...

Essays

New Tourism Geographies and the Politics of Tourist Taxation

Elizabeth Strom - 7 June 2022

The changing geography of urban tourism has led to new forms of political contestation. How hotel-tax revenues are...

From the Field

Starve the Beast: Community-Owned and Community-Controlled Composting as an Alternative to Incineration in Baltimore

Nicole Fabricant - 31 May 2022

Nicole Fabricant documents organizing efforts in Baltimore, led by youth of color, against a trash-to-energy...

Reviews

At the Borders of Europe

Elsa Tyszler & translated by Oliver Waine - 13 May 2022

Against the backdrop of the deaths of 27 exiled people, who drowned in the English Channel while trying to reach...

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-Saharan migration has in recent years become a new sector of employment. Camille...

From the Field

“Welcomed with Closed Arms”: The Everyday Abandonment of Asylum Seekers in Marseille

Béatrice Mésini & Assaf Dahdah & translated by Oliver Waine - 1 April 2022

Asylum policies in France are torn between welcoming and dissuasive measures, and appear ambivalent. Béatrice Mesini...

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 Everyday Realities of Marriage Migration

Laura Odasso & translated by Oliver Waine - 18 March 2022

If unions between nationals from Global North countries and foreigners are frequent, their marriages are often met...

From the Field

A “Migration Crisis”? The Myths and Realities of France’s Immigration Figures

Camille Gourdeau & translated by Oliver Waine - 11 March 2022

Is France experiencing a “migration crisis”? Based on a statistical analysis of immigration figures, Camille Gourdeau...

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...

Reviews

Reconsidering Wasteways from Boston to Seattle

Lisa Jean Moore - 1 February 2022

Throughout the Covid‑19 pandemic, with disposable masks and endless testing, garbage proliferates. It is extremely...

Reviews

(Re)Constructing Inequality: Community Development in Public and Private

Claire Dunning - 14 December 2021

Claire Dunning reviews Jeremy R. Levine’s new book, Constructing Community, an ethnographic study of community...

Interviews

Migration and Inequalities: The Importance of Social Class

Garance Clément & Claire Gellereau & Hélène Steinmetz & Anne-Catherine Wagner & translated by Oliver Waine - 19 November 2021

Since the 1990s, Anne-Catherine Wagner’s research has focused on migrants from the most affluent classes in society....

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...

Essays

Before Redlining and Beyond

Alex B. Hill - 2 November 2021

There is a larger story of spatial racism in cities before and beyond redlining. Spatial racism was not limited to...

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