The purpose is not to give a final and finished definition of the Latin American identity but to contribute to provide elements for its analysis and understanding. Every formally considered identity is an ontological category that affirms the permanence of being. Claudio Chipana Gutiérrez But identity seen in […]
Critical Dialogues
Critical Dialogues
Islamophobia and its ideological roots
Islamophobia – that is the ideology according to which the biggest threat to Western society comes from Islam – affects all of us in one way or another, even in our daily life. Claudio Chipana G. Under the mantle of the fight against terrorism, Islamophobia has legitimacy. In […]
Migration, frontiers and identity
Physical frontiers translate and change into subjective frontiers. The denial of permission to cross a border, is for a refugee or an exile, a symbolic act in defence of a certain identity. But first of all it is the denial of the inalienable right of human beings to travel freel
Reflections on identity and diversity
Identity implies a review, a discussion and the existence of certain symbolic factors reaching across the whole region – with all the implications that this discourse and this symbolism bring with them in terms of actions and collective activity programmes. Claudio Chipana A lot of emphasis has been […]
Latin America and mixed heritage
“We are neither Indian, nor European, but a species lying somewhere in between the legitimate owners of the land and the Spanish usurpers…” Simon Bolivar (Letter from Jamaica). – Claudio Chipana – People of mixed heritage, mestizos, are a challenge to racial purity and the idea of a monolithic nation. […]