A colleague of mine was telling me how she felt awkward speaking to her university tutor, who is a famous academic in the world of sociology. She left me to ponder whether a person’s place within social “hierarchy’”is the only factor in forming relationships with others. Mabel Encinas […]
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Marisa Fassi: “Europe needs to liberate itself from xenophobia”
She has spent five years coming to Europe and has noted the increase in racism and xenophobia during this time. Marisa was born in the Argentine city of Córdoba. The sociologist is 30-years-old, and this is not the first time that she has left her home town; she has […]
A Noah´s Ark to save humanity
On the 25th of December, a ship will depart from Southampton destined for the islands of the South Pacific, to warn of their slow disappearance caused by the actions of mankind. Entire nations are suffering the consequences of a slow rise in sea levels as global warming melts the […]
San Victorino, that vast territory
According to Lucas Fernández Piedrahita, “Bogotá was awarded city status on July 27th, 1540. And, in his article “My people”, Alberto Lleras writes “Who knows why everything that is ours was on the side of San Victorino…” Armando Orozco Tovar He adds: “On the corner where San Victorino […]
Damascus: in the midst of walls, jasmine and mosques
Come in, come in, says a man at the entrance to his handicrafts shop, while all around him there is the hustle and bustle of prospective customers shuffling from one side of the street to the other in front of hundreds of shops and stalls. Roberto Castellanos To […]













