Bronwyn Averett

The act of walking has prompted numerous philosophical and literary reflections, from Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s solitary reveries and Henry David Thoreau’s spiritual and political considerations of peripatetic life to Teju Cole’s meandering novel Open City. If one is interested in the subject, one notices that many of its proponents are men. Notable exceptions…

When the New Stockholm Film Commission accepts her funding proposal for a documentary, Zeynab Abdi is “flabbergasted” by the outcome. Wanting to explore the effects of gentrification within her former neighbourhood, she explains her connection to the place: “The child of political asylum seekers, she strategically discloses her personal history, namely, the adjacent social housing project into which she was born and raised.” She speaks to the selection committee of “its cultural…