Knowledge makes people responsible, with the need to apply knowledge rightly; the perpetrators and the cultures that benefited are accountable. Nigel Pocock Genetic modification and reparations for slavery might seem on first appearances to be somewhat distant companions. How should we define ‘GM’? If we limit the definition […]
In Focus
In Focus
Muchas mujeres renuncian a su identidad indígena
La sociedad guatemalteca es visceralmente machista y con un odio histórico hacia lo indio, tanto que la pronunciación de este vocablo equivale al mayor insulto. se busca reflexionar y reivindicar la identidad indígena en Guatemala. Maitte Marrero Para ser aceptados en la sociedad, los indígenas deben hacerse ‘invisibles’, […]
Pictures of everyday life
A woman passes a child from her arms to those of another woman; a man walks his pet; girls play on a swing; women wash themselves; in the countryside, fruit is gathered from a tree; two men wrestle for a sporting prize before a judge. Sean Sheehan The […]
The first death: planned obsolescence
An idea that belongs to capitalism: producing goods that soon stop working (programmed death) and have to be replaced time and time again. Their inventors: the big multinational companies. Miriam Valero If someone goes into their local shop wanting to have something repaired that has broken down (a […]
Dying London
The young people who are critical for any city’s prosperity are leaving London. Property prices, rents and sales are rising so astronomically, that only the super-rich are able to live in there. Steve Latham Gentrification often prices people out of inner city areas. Now central London is being […]