In a post-structuralist, post-modern, cultural world, sexual identity as an idea has itself become questionable. Instead of a ‘natural’ sexual identity, the notion has developed that sexual identity is socially constructed. Steve Latham Before the nineteenth century homosexuals did not exist. Perhaps I should explain. Michel Foucault famously made the […]
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Love in the United Kingdom…caught in the Web…
9 million Britons are searching the 1,500 available online dating sites with hope of finding love in a long term and steady relationship. This industry is one which generates more than 170 million pounds a year in the United Kingdom. . O. Briasco . Currently across the world there are […]
Multiculturalism: Creative new society, or a dead ‘tolerance’?
Taken on its own, the term ‘multicultural society’ has no practical use. It is a non-criticisable and non-falsifiable chameleon that changes its colour with its environment. That is, unless it is made predictable, at least for the purposes of testing. Nigel Pocock We might, for example, wish to […]
Spanish television is employed as a political weapon
Professor Manuel Palacio links the small screen with the processes of political transformation and describes it as a loudspeaker for the dominant political beliefs of the age. Olga Briasco This is confirmed in his book “Television during the Spanish Transition”. In it, he shows how Televisión Española or […]