City & SocietyPub Date : 2026-02-18DOI: 10.1111/ciso.70028
Amy Cran, Patrick C. Wilson, Mark Brave Rock
{"title":"Walking With SAGE Clan Patrol: Practicing Empathy in the Indigenous Urban Landscape","authors":"Amy Cran, Patrick C. Wilson, Mark Brave Rock","doi":"10.1111/ciso.70028","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ciso.70028","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines the work of a Blackfoot-led, volunteer-based outreach organization that patrols the urban core of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, providing support and connection to vulnerable community members. While settler colonialism maintains exclusionary racialized geographies which locate cities as spaces of “Whiteness” and reserves as places of “Indianness,” SAGE Clan challenges these divisions by patrolling the urban core and providing supports and aid to people experiencing homelessness and addiction. In so doing, it marks its presence on the landscape, asserting an enduring Indigenous connection to ancestral Blackfoot territory. Further, through their concept of Niitsitapiikimmapiiyipitssinni, which understands being Niitsitapi (the Real People) as not tied to blood or ancestry, but embracing a responsibility for mutual care, patrollers challenge neoliberal values of individualism and self-reliance—values echoed in Western medicalized addiction treatment programs—and suggest that being or becoming Niitsitapi is open to all who choose to walk with SAGE Clan and embrace a way of life premised on care and empathy. We suggest that by asserting that all citizens have a role to play in assisting vulnerable community members, and framing Niitsitapi values as open to all, SAGE Clan challenges racial divisions which uphold settler colonialism, articulating a pathway to reconciliation [Urban Indigeneity; Settler colonialism; Addiction; Racialized Geographies; Reconciliation].</p>","PeriodicalId":46417,"journal":{"name":"City & Society","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2026-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ciso.70028","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147323831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
City & SocietyPub Date : 2026-02-10DOI: 10.1111/ciso.70027
Bruce O'Neill
{"title":"Acknowledging the 2025 Anthony Leeds Prize in Urban Anthropology","authors":"Bruce O'Neill","doi":"10.1111/ciso.70027","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ciso.70027","url":null,"abstract":"<p>I am incredibly honored to accept the Anthony Leeds Prize for Urban Anthropology. It is a particularly daunting recognition. For as long as I have been a student of the city, the books recognized by the Leeds Prize have been a great inspiration. These are the books that illustrated for me rigorous fieldwork, clear and gripping prose, and most of all, a moral clarity that has shaped the way that I think, teach, and write about urban life. These have also been the books that I eagerly share with students in my seminars. That the prize committee found echoes of these qualities in <i>Underground: Dreams and Depredations in Bucharest</i> is both thrilling and deeply humbling. My sincere thanks to the Critical Urban Anthropology Association for their consideration of and confidence in <i>Underground</i>.</p><p><i>Underground</i> tells the story of an increasingly polarized city and how growing concerns about affordability drive urban life downward, beneath city sidewalks. I became inspired to write such a story while finishing the fieldwork for my previous book about people experiencing homelessness in Bucharest (O'Neill <span>2017</span>). While hanging out at Bucharest's main railway station—the Gara de Nord—I became aware that unhoused people were squatting in the steam vents and sewer canals running beneath the station. I had also befriended people squatting in the basements and cellars of otherwise abandoned homes in nearby neighborhoods. I began tracking how both groups relied upon low-cost kiosks inside Metro stations to earn money, buy supplies, and otherwise to keep warm. I had initially envisioned this book as a study about the literalization of the long held metaphor of the “urban underclass” (Myradl <span>1965</span>) with the intent of examining how life, for these unhoused communities, extended below ground. By the time I got around to beginning the fieldwork, however, the Municipality had brutally cleared the subterranean encampment in the name of health and safety. The people who had been squatting in nearby homes had also been moved along.</p><p>While <i>Underground's</i> underlying question as to how urban life extends downward endured, nothing about the fieldwork unfolded as I had initially imagined. Perhaps predictably, the forcible clearance of the unhoused from central Bucharest's basements, tunnels, and sewer canals in the mid 2010s was accompanied by a steady buzz about urban beautification. What I did not expect, and what pointed to a more empirically complicated finding, was that these calls for beautification were coupled with editorials, mayoral addresses, and city planning documents that identified the city's new middle classes as a troubling source of blight. These voices insisted that the middle class's growing appetite for new cars and apartments had congested roads and overtaken sidewalks, polluted the air, and degraded the quality and character of public spaces. The middle classes were accused of physically overwhel","PeriodicalId":46417,"journal":{"name":"City & Society","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2026-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ciso.70027","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146217054","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
City & SocietyPub Date : 2026-02-05DOI: 10.1111/ciso.70026
Sabrina Stallone
{"title":"“It Will Get Crowded, It Will Get Dull!”: Preventive Sensations of Density in Zurich's Future-Making","authors":"Sabrina Stallone","doi":"10.1111/ciso.70026","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ciso.70026","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In Zurich, Switzerland's largest and wealthiest city, future planning around densification has been intensely debated in recent years, spurring referendums and direct democratic votes, and permeating the public discourse through governmental communication, political propaganda, and heightened media coverage. As I argue, densification has pervaded the city beyond the technical realm of planning itself, trickling precisely into the everyday realms of the affective, embodied, and sensed, fleshing out gendered and racialized anticipatory imaginaries. This paper thus draws from critical urban studies as well as queer and affect theory to look at densification as a sensed future imaginary, often articulated to prevent its actual materialization: a phenomenon described in this article as “preventive sensations.” Drawing on ethnographic work with civil society organizations, urban activism, and far-right politics, the paper asks how the density of a city comes to be and most of all <i>felt</i>, even when it has arguably yet to arise. By demonstrating how Switzerland emerges as a historically urbaphobic context, I argue that crowdedness becomes a smokescreen for nationalism and anti-migration sentiments, evoked in both conservative and progressive agendas.</p>","PeriodicalId":46417,"journal":{"name":"City & Society","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2026-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ciso.70026","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147275066","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
City & SocietyPub Date : 2026-01-24DOI: 10.1111/ciso.70025
Brent Luvaas
{"title":"Street Atmospheres: Photographing Worlds-in-the-Making in Jakarta","authors":"Brent Luvaas","doi":"10.1111/ciso.70025","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ciso.70025","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Urban theorists increasingly resort to the language of multiplicity when describing cities, particularly Southeast Asian metropolises like Jakarta, Indonesia. Cities, they argue, are composed of worlds within worlds, fragments that fail to cohere into a whole. This is a useful model, but it fails to account for the felt specificity of a particular place and time. Every city has a distinct atmosphere that separates it from elsewhere and which itself cannot easily be defined. This photo essay uses a sensory medium, that is, photography, to evoke the felt atmosphere on the streets of Jakarta. It explores the potential of photography to reveal something of the feeling a place produces without reducing it to any singular set of circumstances or conditions. Photography, it demonstrates, can operate as a nonreductive mode of apprehending, a way of depicting the flurry of activity that produces worlds, without defining or confining the boundaries of those worlds.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":46417,"journal":{"name":"City & Society","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2026-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146057950","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
City & SocietyPub Date : 2026-01-10DOI: 10.1111/ciso.70023
Chiara Cacciotti
{"title":"Learning Through Unhoming. Extended Squatting Time and Agentic Homemaking After Squatting in Rome","authors":"Chiara Cacciotti","doi":"10.1111/ciso.70023","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ciso.70023","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The article examines the lasting effects of squatting in Rome by tracing how its political and pedagogical legacies persist long after eviction. While the physical removal of individuals from a space is often considered the defining moment of eviction, it is, in reality, only the culmination of a lengthy and complex social and legal process—one whose consequences continue to unfold far beyond the moment of displacement. Although squatting is often understood as politically transformative, little attention has been paid to the forms of agency it cultivates and how these endure after unhoming. Drawing on feminist and anthropological approaches, the article introduces agentic homemaking as a relational practice shaped through collective dwelling and shared political struggle. Through the life stories of two former squatters, it shows how people confront unhoming by mobilizing care, mutual aid, and learned knowledge to resist structural inequalities and rebuild their lives. The article also advances the concept of extended squatting time to highlight the enduring influence of squatting as a lived pedagogy that produces marginalized forms of knowledge central to urban politics and everyday survival. Together, these concepts foreground overlooked forms of agency that emerge in the aftermath of dispossession, offering new perspectives on urban struggle, relational resilience, and future-making.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":46417,"journal":{"name":"City & Society","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2026-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145964110","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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