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What does “home” really mean in a world shaped by inequality, displacement, and struggle?
In this lecture-performance, Dr. Azadeh Sobout invites us to rethink the idea of home—not just as a place to live, but as a site of resistance and a lens through which we can confront systems of power, colonialism, and injustice. Challenging the mainstream push to simply “build more housing,” Dr. Sobout explores deeper questions: What if housing itself could help us reimagine care, community, and belonging?
Set against the backdrop of cities marked by land dispossession and historical trauma, this talk offers a new way to understand housing—not as a solution to homelessness, but as a political and ethical issue rooted in land justice and colonial legacies.
Drawing on a feminist ethics of care, urban political ecology, and grassroots knowledge, Dr. Sobout brings insights from housing justice movements across Palestine, Ireland, Bosnia, Iran, and India. Through personal research and global examples, she highlights how communities are organising, resisting, and imagining more just and dignified futures.
Whether you're engaged in activism, academia, planning, or simply curious about how we build fairer cities, this event opens up a conversation about housing, justice, and collective liberation.
photo by Majdi Fathi
Programmed as part of The State of Belfast exhibition. The State of Belfast uses Grenfell by Steve McQueen as a stepping off point to address the inherent injustices and inequality as well as issues of race and poverty which are inextricably linked to the Grenfell tragedy. The State of Belfast explores how these same conditions exist in Belfast and how we might collectively address them.
This national tour of Grenfell is being coordinated by Tate in collaboration with the partner venues and is made possible thanks to support using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England and from Art Fund. Each presentation will be free to visit and will be accompanied by a public engagement programme of talks, workshops and community events supported by the Grenfell Foundation.
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| Tue 9 Sep 2025 | 3:00pm | Free but booking essential | £0.00 | Book Now |
Meet the Facilitator
Azadeh Sobout
Azadeh Sobout’s research has centred on the complex encounters between critical urban studies, radical geography and transitional justice processes, engaging with post-war geographies, geographies of (in)justice and displacement, and decolonial epistemologies. She combines research-based teaching and action learning from several contested urban geographies in South/West Asia, the Balkans and Ireland with a focus on non-conventional urbanisms, continuous displacement and migration, spatial violence and housing justice.
