{"id":38635,"date":"2011-08-16T10:07:35","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T15:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=38635"},"modified":"2015-09-20T00:09:53","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T05:09:53","slug":"global-and-national-inequality-illustrated-by-where-children-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/08\/16\/global-and-national-inequality-illustrated-by-where-children-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Children Sleep, Photos by James Mollison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Photography projects can draw our attention, poignantly, to class inequality. \u00a0Consider\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/03\/14\/class-in-vivian-maiers-street-photography\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vivian Mayer&#8217;s vintage photographs of New York and Chicago<\/a>, for example, or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/08\/18\/what-we-own\/\">Peter Menzel&#8217;s What We Own series<\/a>. \u00a0We need these projects because most of us are in class-segregated occupations and neighborhoods, not to mention a profoundly unequal world.<\/p>\n<p>Photographer\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesmollison.com\/biography.php\" target=\"_blank\">James Mollison<\/a> has embarked on a similar project, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesmollison.com\/wherechildrensleep.php\" target=\"_blank\">Where Children Sleep<\/a>, sent in by <a href=\"http:\/\/killgrove.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kristina Killgrove<\/a>, an anthropologist at\u00a0Vanderbilt University, Yvette M., Amanda B., Dmitriy T.M., and my sister, Keely. \u00a0Mollison has documented children and their bedrooms around the world. \u00a0It&#8217;s heartbreaking to see how much some children have, and how little others do.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See the\u00a0pictures, with details about the\u00a0children, at the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/lens.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/08\/04\/where-children-sleep\/\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photography projects can draw our attention, poignantly, to class inequality. \u00a0Consider\u00a0Vivian Mayer&#8217;s vintage photographs of New York and Chicago, for example, or\u00a0Peter Menzel&#8217;s What We Own series. \u00a0We need these projects because most of us are in class-segregated occupations and neighborhoods, not to mention a profoundly unequal world. 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