Oliver Waine

Oliver Waine fait partie de l’équipe de Métropolitiques, où il occupe les postes de traducteur (français–anglais) et de secrétaire adjoint de rédaction. D’origine britannique, il vit en France depuis 2005. L’urbanisme, le transport, l’architecture et la géographie humaine figurent parmi ses centres d’intérêt.

Terrains

Les Algériens en région parisienne : entre espaces d’inclusion et d’exclusion

Elizabeth Nelson & traduit par Oliver Waine - 2 mai 2023
Comment les Algériens et Français d’origine algérienne de la métropole parisienne affirment-ils leurs identités et...

In english

Terrains

Producing Affordable Housing in West Africa : How States Respond to Demand and Local Realities

Mathilde Mouton & traduit par Oliver Waine - 10 octobre 2025
Based on her consulting work in West Africa, Mathilde Mouton highlights the limitations of state-led social housing...
From the Field

Istanbul as a Showcase of AKP’s Electoral Techno-Nationalism

Yohanan Benhaïm & traduit par Oliver Waine - 3 juin 2025
In Turkey, President Tayyip Erdoğan was re-elected for a third term in May 2023. Yohanan Benhaïm looks back on the...
Debates

The Myth of Urban Exodus from Paris : Mobility in Times of Health Crisis

Nadine Cattan & Olivier Telle & Céline Vacchiani-Marcuzzo & Joséphin Béraud & Ludovic Chalonge & traduit par Oliver Waine - 2 mai 2025
The rushed departures of city dwellers to the countryside ahead of the first Covid‑19 lockdown, in spring 2020,...
From the Field

Geolocation Among Teenage Peers : Between Play, Control, and Gendered Vulnerability

Yann Bruna & traduit par Oliver Waine - 28 mars 2025
Geolocation practices among teenagers are ambivalent, combining aspects of both play and surveillance. Yann Bruna...
From the Field

Large-Scale Farming in the Face of Competing Land Uses in Abidjan District, Côte d’Ivoire

Adjoba Marthe Koffi-Didia & traduit par Oliver Waine - 21 mars 2025
To the west of Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire’s largest city, large farming operations—owned by multinational companies...
Interviews

A Place for Women

Françoise Debats & Maïté Debats & Marik Geurts & Aurélie Nat & traduit par Oliver Waine - 21 janvier 2025
For over 40 years, a feminist association called Apiaf, based in Toulouse in southwestern France, has been working...
From the Field

In Norway, Housing Schemes Designed with Children in Mind

Grégoire Tortosa & traduit par Oliver Waine - 22 novembre 2024
How can cities take more of a “child’s eye view” ? Grégoire Tortosa shows how avant-garde housing developments in...
From the Field

When the Poor Make a Living from the Waste of the Rich

Simon Joxe & traduit par Oliver Waine - 15 novembre 2024
In Buenos Aires, cartoneros—poor individuals who collect the waste of the rich—have managed to formalize their...
Debates

Discrimination and Everyday Politicization in Working-Class Neighborhoods in France

Marion Carrel & traduit par Oliver Waine - 8 octobre 2024
Drawing on a collective study, Marion Carrel highlights how experiences of discrimination structure people’s...
From the Field

Russia’s “Authoritarian Modernization” Through Urbanization : What Lessons Can Be Learned from New Moscow ?

Vladimir Pawlotsky & traduit par Oliver Waine - 28 juin 2024
Can the recent New Moscow urban development project shed light on the political, economic and demographic issues of...
Essays

Paris and the Triangle Tower, or a Half-Century of High-Rise Debate

Julie Gimbal & traduit par Oliver Waine - 21 juin 2024
The introduction of a bioclimatic local planning scheme in Paris has put the brakes on high-rise projects in the...
Essays

The Attractiveness Myth

Michel Grossetti & traduit par Oliver Waine - 11 juin 2024
Drawing on more than a decade of research, Michel Grossetti debunks theories suggesting that cities have the means to...
From the Field

The Paris of Yesteryear : A Photographic Inventory

Pauline Rossi & traduit par Oliver Waine - 14 mai 2024
The Commission du Vieux Paris has kept meticulous records of urban transformations, with its own perception of what...
From the Field

Working-Class Ecology Versus Olympic Urbanism

Flaminia Paddeu & traduit par Oliver Waine - 19 avril 2024
In Aubervilliers, north of Paris, swathes of a community garden—the Jardins Ouvriers des Vertus—have been destroyed...
From the Field

How Cities Function Ecologically : The Importance of Urban Soils

Sophie Joimel & Baptiste Grard & Laure Vieublé Gonod & Claire Chenu & traduit par Oliver Waine - 2 avril 2024
What do we know about the diversity of urban soils ? Ecologists and soil scientists show that a detailed study of...
Essays

Giving Voice to Stammerers

Abigail Bourguignon & traduit par Oliver Waine - 19 mars 2024
By meeting in self-help groups, far from the usual stigmas, people with stammers are able to talk together. This kind...
From the Field

Immigration in the French Countryside

Julie Fromentin & traduit par Oliver Waine - 27 février 2024
What place do immigrants occupy in the French countryside ? By examining detailed data from the last five decades,...
From the Field

Wind Power : Transition Without Debate

Leny Patinaux & traduit par Oliver Waine - 9 février 2024
At a time when the construction of wind farms is regularly the subject of criticism and protests, Leny Patinaux...
From the Field

Female Factory Strikes : Emancipatory Non-Mixity ?

Ève Meuret-Campfort & traduit par Oliver Waine - 26 janvier 2024
The division of industrial labor often places women workers in all-female factories and low-skilled jobs. Ève...
Debates

Writing the Intellectual History of Bioregionalism

Antoine Dubiau & traduit par Oliver Waine - 22 décembre 2023
As bioregionalist ideas spread in France, their history remains partly unwritten. This environmental movement, which...
From the Field

In the Name of Metropolitan Attractiveness

Clément Barbier & traduit par Oliver Waine - 8 décembre 2023
By comparing two urban renewal projects in Lille and Hamburg, Clément Barbier shows that the staging of...
From the Field

From Scientific Uncertainty to Strategic Ignorance

Gwenola Le Naour & Valentin Thomas & traduit par Oliver Waine - 24 novembre 2023
In the absence of data, uncertainties about the health risks of industrial pollution abound, and are used by private...
Reviews

Reinventing Politics Against its Brutalization

Laurent Bazin & traduit par Oliver Waine - 27 octobre 2023
In Greece, the violence of anti-migration policies is compounded by that of economic adjustment measures. Christiane...
Essays

Feminist Non-Mixity : For Women or Against Men ?

Alban Jacquemart & traduit par Oliver Waine - 10 octobre 2023
For women, the choice to gather together serves a variety of objectives within feminist mobilizations. Looking back...
From the Field

The Logistics City : Insights from Africa

Hélène Blaszkiewicz & traduit par Oliver Waine - 29 septembre 2023
What might a city dedicated to logistics look like in Africa ? How does it connect with global goods flows ? These...
Debates

“Urban Exodus” as an Extension of the Rentier Sector

Aurélie Delage & Max Rousseau & traduit par Oliver Waine - 15 septembre 2023
In the French media, the increasingly recurrent topic of urban exodus has been portrayed as one of the consequences...
From the Field

Digital Technology and the City : New Forms of Urban Segregation in Cape Town ?

Julien Migozzi & traduit par Oliver Waine - 23 juin 2023
In the age of platform capitalism, how is digital technology reconfiguring real-estate markets and access to housing...
From the Field

The Reception Chain for Exiled Ukrainians : From Ukraine to Poland and France

Thomas Lacroix & traduit par Oliver Waine - 16 juin 2023
In contrast to other recent waves of refugees, Ukrainian exiles have been welcomed quickly and massively within the...
From the Field

Major Events : The Olympics of Digital Urban Safety ?

Myrtille Picaud & traduit par Oliver Waine - 2 juin 2023
Major international events are increasingly witnessing the deployment of digital security policies and technologies,...
From the Field

Girls-Only Sport

Antoine Bréau & traduit par Oliver Waine - 26 mai 2023
Against a backdrop of gender inequalities at school, an experiment in the field of physical education shows that...

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