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 […]
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Theocratic democracy, prosocial change and debate
Materialism, physicalism, purposeless, as envisaged by Richard Dawkins and Stephen Jay Gould, or Daniel Dennett, need not have the last word. It is not Social Darwinism of the violent superman, but the conscious voluntary taking on of empathy and connection that is crucial. Nigel Pocock There seems to […]
Before the Nakba
When Israel was created in 1948, Zionists set about ethnic cleansing by expelling Palestinians – the Nakba (‘catastrophe’) – an endeavour on the part of Israel being currently replayed in Gaza and the West Bank. Sean Sheehan “The Lord”, a rare fictional account of life in Palestine before […]
Education can constitute a practice of freedom
Education can constitute a practice of freedom. Depending on how we understand “social justice” and “education” the relationship between them changes. “Social justice” can be a slippery concept, particularly when it is kidnapped by a government that supports an individual-blaming culture. Mabel Encinas The Centre for Social Justice, […]
That racism creates violence and inequality in Brazil
Brazil is the country with the most Afro-descendants outside of Africa, but its cultural wealth coexists with a painful legacy of slavery, exclusion and injustice. Structural racism persists in all areas, and black youth face systemic violence that continues to be unpunished, despite recent attempts at reparation and historic visibility. […]
















