Dear All,
It is my pleasure to announce the release of the documentary 'Barbara Harrell-Bond: a life not ordinary'. To celebrate the life of Barbara, the film is now available on vimeo link that can be accessed through the Barbara Harrell-Bond Foundation (below) - under Documentary. Please kindly consider donating to the Foundation and supporting its efforts to continue Barbara's work on behalf of refugees:
Barbara Harrell-Bond Foundation: http://barbaraharrellbond.org/
For those interested in screening the film for education purposes, please contact me directly in order to access a theatre-screening quality of the film.
Through the prism of an extraordinary life, this documentary explores the achievements of Barbara Harrell-Bond - academic, refugee activist and a life-long advocate of refugee rights.
The film takes us on a personal journey of a not-so-ordinary woman born in a remote town in South Dakota during the Great Depression, and traces her career from her initial engagement with the civil rights in the late Fifties, to her move to the UK in the mid-Sixties where she studied social anthropology at the University of Oxford in the 1960s, and then to her travels in West Africa where she carried out much of her academic research.
Her first-hand experience of the Saharawi refugee camps in Algeria in 1980, and the humanitarian crisis in Sudan in 1982, led her to establish the first refugee studies centre in Oxford, of which she is a founding director, and numerous others around the world. A very strong advocate of legal aid programs for refugees in the Global South, Barbara established a number of these programs including in Uganda, Egypt, South Africa and the UK.
Far from being only an academic, the focus of Barbara’s life-long work had been on refugee rights, and on keeping refugees at the centre of humanitarian interventions. Issues which resonate even more deeply now, in an age in which safe havens for refugees are increasingly being eroded and violations of human rights are on the rise.
Director: Enrico Falzetti
Written by Katarzyna Grabska and Enrico Falzetti
Produced by Katarzyna Grabska in collaboration with AMERA Int.
Best regards,
Katarzyna Grabska
film producer and writer
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Katarzyna Grabska, PhD
Assistant Professor
Institute of International Social Studies, The Hague
Erasmus University, Rotterdam
Chercheuse associée, CEDEJ, Khartoum, http://cedejsudan.hypotheses.org/
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