Metropolitics

CALL FOR PAPERS | Governing Repair: The Role of Cities and States in Reparations Policy

2026-03-24T06:00:00Z

The Editorial Board is issuing a call for papers for a forthcoming special series in Metropolitics titled “Governing Repair: The Role of Cities and States in Reparations Policy” and edited by Prentiss A. Dantzler, Rashad Williams, and Akira Drake Rodriguez. We welcome abstract submissions through June 1, 2026.
It's been over a decade since Ta‑Nehisi Coates published “The Case for Reparations” in The Atlantic. In his article, Coates (2014) vividly recounts the harsh realities of housing

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Former Metropolitics and Métropolitiques team members

The Editorial Board — 2025-10-27T17:08:46Z

On this page you will find the names of all those who have contributed to the editorial life of Metropolitics and Métropolitiques since the journals' launch in November 2010, but who are no longer members of the team.
Former editors-in-chief of Metropolitics:
● Jason Hackworth ● John Mollenkopf ● Michael Leo Owens
Former editors-in-chief of Métropolitiques:
● Manuel Appert ● Carole Gayet-Viaud ● Luca Pattaroni
● Julie Benoit ● Pierre Gilbert

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Summer/Fall Reading 2025

The Editorial Board — 2025-08-01T05:00:00Z

The Editorial Board will be posting new articles again from early September. In the meantime, members of the Metropolitics team here share some of their summer/fall reading recommendations.
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Counterinstitution: Activist Estates of the Lower East Side by Nandini Bagchee New York: Fordham University Press, 2018 ISBN: 9780823279265
This book documents the repurposing by political activists of three buildings on New York City's Lower East Side in the 1960s and '70s. It explores how

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Summer Reading 2024

The Editorial Board — 2024-07-23T05:00:00Z

The Editorial Board is now on summer break and will be posting new articles again in September. We've curated a selection of articles published over the 2023/2024 academic year for summer reading.
The articles below engage with a broad range of topics: resistance to “fifteen-minute cities” in England; police accountability; explorations of New York City past and present; military urbanism in Northern Ireland; queer social infrastructure in Toronto; the realities of forced labor in American

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Summer Reading 2023

The Editorial Board — 2023-07-18T05:00:00Z

The Editorial Board is now on summer break and will be posting new articles again starting on Tuesday, September 5. We've curated a selection of articles published over the 2022/2023 academic year for summer reading.
The articles below engage with a broad range of topics: urban waste management in India and France; realities of urban life in New York (from superdiversity to the platform economy to basement housing); housing issues in Brazil and Lebanon; or the impact of a new transportation

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Summer Reading 2022

The Editorial Board — 2022-07-22T05:00:00Z

The Editorial Board is now on summer break and will be posting new articles again starting on Tuesday, September 6, 2022. We've curated a selection of articles published over the 2021/2022 academic year for summer reading.
The articles below engage with a broad range of topics, from the role of data in community organizing and urban governance to the politics of taxation. Several articles raise important questions about the future of work and the intersections of public infrastructure, debt,

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Summer Reading 2021

The Editorial Board — 2021-07-20T05:00:00Z

The Editorial Board is now on summer break and will be posting new articles again from Tuesday, September 7, 2021. We've curated a selection of pieces published over the 2020/2021 academic year for summer reading.
The pieces below engage with a range of timely topics. Several articles and a special series deal with contemporary housing issues, from the rise of tax-credit investment at the expense of affordable housing to the struggle to preserve public housing. A special series on

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Apply to the Metropolitics Summer Writing Program

The Editorial Board — 2021-04-19T05:00:00Z

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In this remote writing workshop, to be held during June 2021, graduate students interested in publishing accessible scholarship on cities and urban politics will learn, with the editorial board of Metropolitics and in small groups with individual and peer mentorship, the ins and outs of academic publishing aimed at a public audience.
The goal is for each student to produce a 1,500‑word piece, based on recent scholarship (such as a term paper,

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Summer Reading 2020

The Editorial Board — 2020-07-20T05:30:00Z

The Editorial Board is currently on summer break, but will be posting new articles again starting on Tuesday, September 15. In light of the recent mass protests against police brutality, we are featuring a selection of papers published in Metropolitics that address issues of police violence and racism to contribute to the dialogue this movement has generated.
When George Floyd was murdered by the Minneapolis police on May 25, 2020, mass protests against police violence and institutional

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Summer Reading 2019

The Editorial Board — 2019-07-17T11:23:13Z

The Editorial Board is now on summer break and will be posting new articles again starting on Tuesday, September 10. To tide you over, we are featuring a selection of papers published over the course of the 2018/2019 academic year.
These articles range widely in focus. They consider climate change and its perils—the environmental vulnerability of black women and the convergence of urbanization and climate change—but also find reason for optimism, evidenced by Boston's use of solid waste

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