There is a difference between the expressions ‘I don’t mind’ and ‘I don’t care’. The first one might have to do with indifference as acceptance and respect (I do not mind what my neighbour prefers to eat); the second one refers to indifference as lack of engagement (I do not […]
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Modern trafficking and African-Caribbean slavery: A false comparison?
One of the greatest myths is that modern trafficking can be directly compared with African-Caribbean chattel slavery. There are a number of fallacies in this argument. Nigel Pocock Could it be, as is suggested by Professor Geoff Palmer, that local communities can talk about modern trafficking, because it […]
Self-determination and the practice of freedom
I started last term by asking my students to write what their purposes in life are (a question that my father has asked to several generations of teachers). Mabel Encinas Many of my students, future child psychologists and current teachers, answered that they want “to make a difference”. […]
Which jungle is José Eustasio Rivera writing about?
“Before I became passionate about any woman, I gambled with my heart and violence won.” – The Vortex Armando Orozco Tovar It is strange that Jose Eustasio Rivera (b. Neiva-Huilla 1886) died young in New York, not because a visit from the Grim Reaper is unusual for anyone, […]
Miguel Hernández, poetry and prison
What did I do to deserve so much time inside? It was 1961, in the poet Darío Samper’s library, when I first came to know Miguel Hernández. Armando Orozco Tovar The Spanish poet, was sitting in a corduroy suit, head shaved head, and with works of poetry and […]
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