Recognition and integration are two sides of the same coin. A minority, a community or a Diaspora can’t be asked to integrate if they are not recognized. Claudio Chipana In official statements much is said about the need for minorities to integrate and to respect ‘British values’ in […]
Critical Dialogues
Critical Dialogues
My city of ruins
St. Augustine’s “City of God” was occasioned by the fall of Rome. In his mind, however, this expanded into a rumination about the history of civilisation. Steve Latham The city is always fallen, always falling. The city is always changing, but that surely does not necessarily entail a […]
Latin American immigrant, work and identity
Capitalism has ‘assigned’ the role of cheap labour to Latino migrants, justifying it ideologically by the application of racist stereotypes. Claudio Chipana Without breaking racist ideological stereotypes it is not possible to move forward towards a truly integrated and inclusive society, especially for ethnic and national minorities, something […]
The only constant in life is change
Slavoj Zizek has written that a frustrating aspect of the pandemic is that it continues without end, with no conclusion. It is an ongoing emergency, which proceeds non-teleologically in different stages. Steve Latham As we are learning, with the virus a permanent presence in our world, the implications […]
The wings of the cabinetmaker
Memories of the national strike, 2021. The son of a poor family, 26-year-old Brahian joined two lists of victims of violence during the National Strike in Colombia: the list of those who have disappeared (now almost 500) and the list of those who have been killed, which is close to […]