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Essay
Artists Respond to the Sanctuary City
By
Jacqueline Francis
Kathy Zarur

Artists in this exhibition responded to challenges of, and consolations of, sanctuary. Sanctuary, we learned, is not an abstraction; it is a relative term that we negotiate.

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Photograph of President Erdogan supporters unfolding the national flag of Turkey during after coup demonstrations at Taksim square.
Essay
Dare to Dream Otherwise: Hope as Praxis
By
Azat Gündoğan

Hope is deeply utopian, not in the colloquial or naïve sense of idealism, nor as mere "wishful thinking." Hope is a political and imaginative praxis. It is rooted in the capacity and willingness to envision a radically different "there and then," and to work toward it, even when the "here and now" feels insurmountable.

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Image of a hand inside the orange and red threads of a loom.
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Image courtesy Flickr. Graphic design by Sheena Lai.
Intervention
When the Loom Stops: How Industrial Collapse Could Reshape Worker Identity
By
Alberta Christina Pertiwi
Rifqi Febrian
Siti Hilya Nabila

Cristina, Febrian, and Nabila use the case study of the Batik textile industry in the Indonesian city of Pekalongan to examine the effects of industrialization on the laborers and their community.

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