To talk about this subject requires an all-round view. The conception of liffe as a straight line passing through points A, B, C, D is an over-simplification. This abstraction doesn’t correspond to anyone’s life, although sometimes we insist that it does. Mabel Encinas Life is more like a […]
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Thinking like trees
It is common to think of taxonomy, the branch of science concerned with classification, in terms of hierarchy: divisions between Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species (made easier to remember with the mnemonic Kieran, Please come over for gay sex) are seen to define the natural order in much […]
‘Illegal’ immigrants and ‘privileged’ immigrants
Migration is: ‘The geographical displacement of individuals or groups, generally for economic or social reasons.’ But there is no word for forced migration in the dictionary. Virginia Moreno Molina That is because enforced migration is not what happens when an immigrant chooses to travel and decides to make […]
Slavery: the effects are still with us
Abolition Acts continued to be re-written and re-applied right up until the early 1900s. The effects are still with us. Nigel Pocock African-Caribbean slaves are the largest group that have not been compensated for the suffering and abuse they underwent for 400 years (c. 1450-1850). This might seem […]
Critical journalism confronts dominant perspectives
Critical journalism responds to the dominant views of powerful agents, bringing together texts and images that expose additional information and evidence that would have been dismissed otherwise and that allow an analytical approach. Mabel Encinas By contrast with journalism that perpetuates the status quo and does not question […]
















