...Judith Farquhar Many mundane practices of city life in public in Beijing converge on public parks. Focusing on the uses, significance, and powers of the annual park pass, an inexpensive identity card that gives residents free access to the city's well-known and historic parks, I demonstrate some...

... by demographic decline but also discursively constructed as dysfunctional, nonviable, or “void,” by both the government and their remaining residents. Viewed as impediments on the path of modernization, rural voids are bereft of life as well as meaning. However, while rural voids and their residents are targets...

... for private-sector market solutions to entrenched inequality and need in the United States, this article offers insights on another way that poverty is created and sustained. Nearly six years after the disaster of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, many residents are still trying to recover, while others have...

...Harel Shapira This essay explores the ways residents in southern Arizona are experiencing and responding to the militarization of the United States – Mexico border. By focusing on the local level, the essay examines an emergent border politics that focuses neither on immigrants nor the economy...

... to planning and policy making. Based on the observation and analysis of projects, developments, and initiatives at a metropolitan level and “on the ground” in over twenty cities, this essay argues that the potential for social integration and democratic engagement of socially excluded urban residents is often...

... refugee and migrant , the fraught vocabulary of settlement and unsettlement (involving the translation of terms like indigeneity , occupation , detention zone , and camp ), shibboleth tests and the foreclosure of the right to residency (which amounts to the passporting of speech), and the multilingual...

... science of possible worlds, outlining strategies for rigorous exploration of the imaginal world where unrealized but possible social arrangements reside. As the thumbnail sketch above suggests, contemporary AI—as a technology and as a field of inquiry—overwhelmingly participates in a modernist political...

...Ryo Morimoto Abstract The article explores the tensions between the state, science, and the lived experience among the residents in the aftermath of the 2011 nuclear accident in Fukushima. The author proposes the analytics of the “surreal” to apprehend the incommensurable divide invisible radiation...

...Vicki Mayer The film and media industries have turned New Orleans into “Hollywood South,” a transformation that regularly reorients residents’ relationships with their physical environment. In this essay, I describe the connections I see between the privatization of public space and the impacts...

... the resources to do so. Residents working to organize their own retreat are engaged in a struggle for recognition and support from, paradoxically, the very governments and institutions responsible for planning, implementing, and managing retreat once it becomes necessary. In this article, I contrast dominant...

... and anxieties under conditions of aerosolized ruination. This article sheds special light on links between gender binaries and filtered life. It traces how, prior to the COVID‐19 pandemic, scientists, marketers, and many others residing in urban China interacted with air filters in ways textured by the male...

...) . 2001 . Slum Sanitation Project: Final report . Mumbai : Municipal Corporation of Brihanmumbai . New Link Road Residents Forum . 2010b . Where does Mumbai’s water go? New Link Road Residents Forum (blog) , March 26 . newlinkroad.blogspot.com/2010/03/where-does-mumbais-water-go.html...

... in the 317 Public Culture spaces they occupy. Slum society, it is assumed, does not incubate a civil society beyond the development NGOs that regularly take up residence in them. Even if “global slums” incubate new political subjectivities, the assumption...

... so that expanded spaces of economic and cultural operation become available to residents of limited means. This essay is framed around the notion of people as infrastructure, which emphasizes economic collaboration among residents seemingly marginalized from and immiserated by urban life...

... in massive, historically single-sex hostel complexes. Although they have been effectively city residents for years, even decades, the specificity of migrant work- ers qua migrant workers in South Africa lies not so much in the periodicity...

... (accessed October 17, 2021). 15. Conversation between author and Silwan resident Fakhri Abu Diab, August 24, 2021. 16. See “Our Strategic Objectives,” Al Bustan Association—Silwan, https://bas.ps/about-us/ (accessed October 28, 2021). References Abu Hasaneen Mai . 2021...

... and coordinated design work. As a place under siege, without any regulated open borders, tunnels have become the only way to deliver weapons, goods, and medicine from the outside. The population’s poverty and the lack of construction materials such as cement and metal have led residents to build...

...: Toward an Emancipatory Politics for Resident Koreans and Other Japanese.” Positions , 1 , no. 3 : 640 -670. Fischer , Michael M. J. 1986 . “Ethnicity and the Post-Modern Arts of Memory.” In James Clifford and George E. Marcus, eds. Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography...