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 […]
In Focus
In Focus
The development of love does not only come from ‘the inside
We humans are social beings from the onset. We could not survive without the social world. The thing is that love could be in the spotlight or it could be greed and selfishness. Individualistic cultures lead to the latter. Mabel Encinas After the commercial wave in the name […]
What Israel did
The whole world knows what Israel is doing but the historical background – what took place in 1948 – is not as well known. Salman Abu Sitta was a child of ten when it happened and he remembers what took place in his memoir “Mapping my return”. Sean Sheehan […]
Theatre in the skies
Bird photography took flight when limitations in the technology were overcome in the 21st century. The 200 photographs by more than fifty practitioners of the art that make up “Aviary: the bird in contemporary photography” bear astonishing testimony to what is n possible. Sean Sheehan The book’s two […]
Context is not something random, it has a history
Personal relationships are political and in these interactions power relationships are established, which concern people’s social and personal backgrounds at the same time, backgrounds that are borne of their life experiences. A colleague of mine was telling me how she felt awkward speaking to her university tutor, who is a […]
















