The same modernity that fosters fragmentation and cultural variety falters when it comes to recognising the legitimacy of the “other” in its metropolises. Western society faces a paradox. On the one hand, a product of it’s own capitalist dynamic, society has developed greater diversification of products and styles and personalisation […]
Critical Dialogues
Critical Dialogues
The identity paradox: fragmentation in the global era
In the face of global homogenisation, identity is resurging strongly in two opposing forms: exclusionary ultra-nationalism and the multicultural demands of minorities, creating a crossroads between dialogue and exclusion. Claudio Chipana Gutiérrez It is not just globalisation but migration, and the very rapid increase in the role of […]
Diaspora and recognition vs. anti-immigrant narrative
Recognition is, ultimately, the recognition of an individual as a citizen with full rights. The electoral gains of the ultra-right with its anti-immigrant discourse and ability to charge the domestic agenda and front pages with the need to cut immigrant rights, do not suggest a very promising outlook. But under […]
Internal exile
Modernism was a renaissance in the early twentieth century affecting different art forms around the world. Not coincidentally, it arose from the ashes of the destructive conflict of imperialist powers that produced World War I. Sean Sheehan Modernism is not to be conflated with modernity and its dustbinning […]
How identity shapes the diaspora: history and significance
Latin American identity is a good example of the possibility of living together and the mixing of races, traditions and cultures. Migrations are formed in the convergence and divergence of Latin American culture with different cultures. This relationship with the “other” is simultaneously of acceptance and rejection. The diasporas have […]
















