Issue 52 | July 2023

A Special Feature, Homelessness and Poverty in Europe.

• Introduction by Hélène B. Ducros and Elizabeth B. Jones

Research

• “How Do We Talk about Housing Equality in an Increasingly Unequal Europe?” by Lindsay Flynn

• “Homelessness and EU Citizenship in a Borderless Europe” by Dion Kramer

• “Poverty and Homelessness in Germany after the COVID-19 Pandemic” by Christoph Butterwegge

• “Homelessness in Switzerland: From a Blind Spot to New Approaches in Research and Practice” by Jörg Dittmann and Matthias Drilling

A Roundtable on the European Capitals of Culture

• Introduction by Anastasia Paparis

• “Building Europeanness through the European Capitals of Culture: An Interview with Steve Green” by Anastasia Paparis

• “Eleusis2023 and the Mysteries of Transition: An Interview with Michail Marmarinos” by Anastasia Paparis

• “Urbanism and the European Capitals of Culture: Eleusis2023” by Anastasia Paparis

• “Reflections on the Next Round of European Capitals of Culture: An Interview with Ulrich Fuchs” by Anastasia Paparis

Visual Art

• “Exclusion, Isolation, Loneliness,” an art series curated by Hélène B. Ducros

Nonfiction

• The Illiterate by Ágota Kristóf, translated from the French by Nina Bogin

Fiction

• Commander of the River by Ubah Cristina Ali Farah, translated from the Italian by Hope Campbell Gustafson 

Interviews

• “Helping People Affected by Homelessness Through Creative Photography: An Interview with Paul Ryan” by Hélène B. Ducros

Book Reviews

• Georgian and Soviet: Entitled Nationhood and the Specter of Stalin in the Caucasus, reviewed by Molly Walker

• The Dragoman Renaissance Diplomatic Interpreters and the Routes of Orientalism, reviewed by Duygu Yıldırım

• Labour in a Single Shot: Critical Perspectives on Antje Ehmann and Harun Farocki’s Global Video Project, reviewed by Michael Zryd

Campus

• “From Othering to Empowerment: Homelessness and Experiential Education” by Katalin Ámon

• Syllabus: “The Holocaust” by Nick Ostrum

Campus Round-Up

• “Homelessness, Mobility, and Housing Precarity in Higher Education” by Hélène B. Ducros

Editor’s Pick

• The Begging Question: Sweden’s Social Responses to the Roma Destitute, by Erik Hansson

Cover image: Grey Hutton
Cover design: Hélène B. Ducros