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THE 2023 FESTIVAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE
21 October - 17 November
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In Their Eyes: Work, Discrimination and Dignity in the Middle East, Africa and the UK

Exhibition documenting the daily lives of marginalised communities

garment sector workers in Jordan

What’s on offer?

An exhibition of photography

What’s it about?

This exhibition opens a window onto the daily lives of marginalised communities as they struggle to maintain dignified lives amidst structural discrimination. The collection includes photographic narratives from garment sector workers in Jordan, urban residents in South Africa, asylum seekers in the UK’s Southwest and displaced populations in South Sudan as part of a collaborative project with researchers from the University of Bath’s Centre for Development Studies. The exhibition also includes a documentary film of a theatre production by displaced youth in Jordan.

This exhibition is free and drop-in, there is no need to book.

Who’s leading the event?

Katharina Lenner, Lecturer in the Department of Social & Policy Sciences at the University of Bath