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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Conference on Englishness at University of Winchester, 28 March

One of our members, Charlie Leddy-Owen, is co-organising a conference on qualitative approaches to the study of English identities with John Denham from the University of Winchester’s Centre for English Identity and Politics. Charlie will be speaking at the event along with David McCrone, Anoop Nayak, Katharine Tyler, Lisa McKenzie, Sivamohan Valluvan, Robin Mann and others. The event will be held at Winchester Cathedral on 28 March. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/stories-of-england-tickets-43440799601

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CFP: Global apartheid? Racial inequality in the contemporary global order

Call for papers for panel at the Development Studies Association annual conference, University of Manchester, June 27th-29th Global apartheid? Racial inequality in the contemporary global order This panel invites papers that address the theme of racial inequality in the contemporary global order. Since the 1970s, the concept of “global apartheid” has informed much research and activism on this theme, based upon the claim that inequality on a global scale is structured around a colonial axis and what Howard Winant referred to as “a centuries-old pattern of white supremacy”. However, a number of scholars have begun to question the continued relevance

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