The title of this book, “Small earthquakes”, comes from the probably apocryphal story about the title that won a competition, among bored sub-editors on the Times, for the dullest newspaper headline that would make it into print: it was won with ‘Small Earthquake in Chile. Not many dead’. Sean […]
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When difference means exclusion and objectification
The idea that people use people is quite common nowadays. It seems acceptable that we are seen or we see others as objects. Mabel Encinas This can be such an everyday idea that it may sound familiar that you can use your colleague to convince your boss or […]
A migrant activist for 42 years in a migrant ‘bairro’
The journey of an activist migrant from north to south in Europe following her dream of putting adult education to a radical use in the tradition of Paulo Freire. Collaborating to set up a centre with the community in the impoverished area of Cova da Moura consolidated its community development, but now it faces a threat from housing speculation.
Internal exile
Modernism was a renaissance in the early twentieth century affecting different art forms around the world. Not coincidentally, it arose from the ashes of the destructive conflict of imperialist powers that produced World War I. Sean Sheehan Modernism is not to be conflated with modernity and its dustbinning […]
What is Israel doing?
The leading causes of violent death worldwide among children under five years of age have been drowning, transport incidents, choking, fire and falls. Now there is another one, after choking and above fire: Israeli violence. The tragedy, says Eman Basher, “is not just in the lives lost but in the futures stolen”.
















