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Published in: democraciaAbiertaFor a Social, Ecological, Economic and Intercultural Pact for Latin America
The pandemic is a tragedy for many people, whose pain we share. But the pause imposed on global capitalism due to...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The need to contextualise monuments, avoiding indifference and ambiguity
Controversial statues should be dealt with according to their individual contexts.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Antifascist culture in isolation
After 1933, a left-wing culture that had encompassed socialist workers, artists and intellectuals alike was driven...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionHow to dismantle a democracy: the case of Bulgaria
Not only fascistic xenophobes are capable of killing democracy. Semi-literate macho males bereft of any...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionWhat monuments does Britain need?
What goes up matters more than what comes down. Here’s where I’d start.
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Published in: openMovementsCreating a hyperlocal infrastructure of care: COVID-19 Mutual Aid Groups
COVID-19 mutual aid groups revolve around caring for neighbours as a hyperlocal infrastructure. This can have a...
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Published in: HomeHart Island: New York City’s dark shadow
Being Hart Island, the proposed park – given the racist title ‘Negro Coney Island’ – was to be solely for black...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Four invisible enemies in the first pandemic of a “datafied society”
COVID-19 lays bare the nuances of a society undergoing digital data transformation in nearly every field of human...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionThe statue of Colston must be left in the water
The toppling is a work of art, which celebrates a global movement.
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionHow black people face and use violence in the US and Brazil
Violence has, to some extent, given political agency to blacks in the United States, whereas nonviolence has kept...
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Published in: openMovementsWe are all in this together: from global pandemic to global solidarities
To be effective, social movements’ actions must be grounded in effective organisational dynamics and democratic...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Dismantling democracy – the right to be entertained
It is not enough any more to call populists names. Calling them fascists has ceased to make any impression on many...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionAchille Mbembe and the fantasy of separation
The latest German uproar exposes a core cleavage in Holocaust memory.
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionWe need a response to Covid-19 crafted alongside indigenous peoples
Ensuring the health of humanity and the planet requires a consolidated effort that acknowledges and incorporates the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionOut of the Belly of Hell: COVID-19 and the humanisation of globalisation
It turns out we did change the world. And we must keep changing it.
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Published in: HomeWe have to grasp how conspiracy theories work
Like viruses, conspiracy theories are socially contagious and hard to stop once set in motion. We must understand...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionEnglish ‘exceptionalism’ despite Italy’s warning
Seeing ourselves as others see us, Italian-style.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The European Union as seen from Bergamo: post-populism or renaissance?
In Bergamo and all the communities coping with this crisis, what seemed impossible is already happening now, for the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?US vs. THEM – corona crisis exposes social cleavages in Romania
Knee-jerk reactions to Romanians returning home reflect broader processes of social distancing, set in motion long...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionAMLO: a will to transform, not to govern Mexico
If the goal of governing is to respond to social demands, the goal of transforming is to find a place in history. Español.