Memory and Emotion: Refugee Week event with artist Hong Dam.

The second of JFI and CRaB’s ‘Coffeee Shop Conversations’ will be taking place on Thursday 21st June from 12.30 in Guildhall Cafe. To mark Refugee Week 2018 we welcome Hong Dam. Hong is a Brighton-based Vietnamese artist whose work deals with memory, loss and displacement in the context of her experiences of becoming a refugee as a child. She will read a short extract from her debut novel Sympathy for the Dandelion after which there will be audience discussion about the work and themes arising. Please come along – there will, as with all of these events, be free tea, coffee and cake!

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Urban regeneration through community participation: Reflections on the case of the Kasbah of Algiers

Sandra Jovchelovitch and Jacqueline Priego-Hernandez With half of humanity now living in urban areas, it is not accidental that the 21st century is considered the century of cities. Urbanization has transformed human lives and cities are major drivers of economic, social and cultural development. Yet, the positive power of urbanization has not eroded poverty, exclusion and inequality and, across the globe, the contemporary city remains a space of walls and sharp territorial boundaries. For many, in a global scale, the right to the city is moderated by the socioeconomic and psychological consequences of where in the city they live. Understanding

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Reflections on January’s screening of Blueberry Soup

CRaB postgraduate researcher Carlus Hudson has written the following reflections on the screening of Blueberry Soup which was hosted by CRaB earlier this year. Blueberry Soup: How Iceland changed the way we think about the world On 10th January, CRaB was joined by documentary-maker Eileen Jerrett for a screening of her film Blueberry Soup. Blueberry Soup follows the stories of Icelandic people who have taken their country’s future into their own hands and sought to rewrite the constitution. Iceland was hit hard by the 2008 financial crisis: its economy shrunk by 10% and unemployment tripled. The largest protests in Iceland’s

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