So what can we, in the Netherlands, learn from Elliott’s vivid and powerfull narrative? Joined on stage by sociologist Bowen Paulle and urban geographer Cody Hochstenbach the discussion will analyse and unpack the power structures and unequal systems within which people become trapped, and its impact upon households and communities. Concrete solutions and policies to tackle the divide will be looked in to.
Pulitzer Prize winner Andrea Elliott a guest at The Dépendance in Rotterdam
On Wednesday October 12 this year’s Pulitzer Prize winner Andrea Elliott to De Dépendance on the occasion of her latest book Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City. Elliott is an investigative journalist for The New York Times whose work documents the lives of people on the margins of power.
Based on nearly a decade of reporting, Invisible Child follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani Coates, whose story has become emblematic of America’s most wicked and growing urban problems: segregation, poverty and systemic inequality. It reveals the reality of child homelesness in New York City, and lays bare a strata of society far too often ignored.
