Economy

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  Op-Ed

  Spatial Justice: Rasquachification, Race and the City

  September 15, 2014 - 

  Intervening in discussions about gentrification and placemaking, cultural activist Roberto Bedoya champions the creative resilience found in communities of color—and exemplified by the Chicano practice of Rasquachification—to suggest “placekeeping” as a strategy for advancing racial justice goals.  More

  By Roberto Bedoya

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  Podcast: Forms of Life

  Who’s Happy About Abu Dhabi’s “Island of Happiness”? It’s Not the Construction Workers

  August 18, 2014 - 

  In this episode of Forms of Life, Nato Thompson speaks about the harsh conditions faced by workers in Abu Dhabi.  More

  By Nato Thompson, Laura Diamond Dixit, Naeem Mohaiemen and Andrew Ross

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  Editor's Letter

  Occupying Empty Houses and Airwaves to Fight Foreclosures in Boston

  July 1, 2014 - 

  As members of the Boston-based community group City Life/Urbana Vida moved a homeless couple into an empty house, a collective of artists and activists including John Hulsey set up a pirate radio station inside the house and organized conversations about housing equity using the frequency of a recently shuttered radio station.  More

  By Marisa Mazria Katz

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  Subtlety Series

  Jean-Euphèle Milcé:
  To Drink My Sweet Body

  May 9, 2014 - 

  Poet and novelist Jean-Euphèle Milcé evokes the harrowing condition of cultivating sugar from the perspective of a Haitian plantation worker, on the occasion of Kara Walker’s A Subtlety…, presented by Creative Time at Brooklyn’s Domino Sugar Factory.  More

  By Jean-Euphèle Milcé

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  Subtlety Series

  Shailja Patel: Unpour

  May 8, 2014 - 

  Writer and performer Shailja Patel dissects the ethical and racialized implications of refining sugar, on the occasion of Kara Walker’s A Subtlety…, presented by Creative Time at Brooklyn’s Domino Sugar Factory.  More

  By Shailja Patel