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’, […]
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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 […]
Diversity, proposing the democratic inclusion
Multiculturalism arose as a response to the challenges presented by immigration and as a way of proposing the democratic inclusion of immigrant ethnic minorities into society, maintaining their identity but at the same time adopting the values and institutions of the recipient country through a process of dialogue and mutual […]