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After slavery: darkness at noon on the Equator

In the film “Banzo”, the story of the persistence of neo-slavery, long after slavery was banned builds on the small details of life, and the documents often passed over. The normalization of violence affects everyone involved, but for the labourers it destroys their motivation to engage with life. And doctors are called to investigate this new ‘sickness’.

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‘Para-justice’ or vigilante justice in Colombia

The citizens’ weariness with street thieves naturalised revenge and punishment as instruments of a kind of dangerously vindictive “para-justice”.   German Ayala Osorio*   Every day, videos are posted on social media showing citizens, particularly men, subjecting thieves to violent punishments they call “paloterapia” (lynching), cognitive recalibration, therapeutic massages (punching […]

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Roaming the streets at random and whim

Last week I wrote about how the cityscape contains empty spaces, voids, which are the as-yet undeveloped tracts within the urban setting.   Steve Latham    But the word ‘void’ possesses a dual meaning. It is also a spiritual word. The void is what mystics experience in the depth of […]