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Introduction to Special Issue: Critical Perspectives on Covid19 in Latin America
No full textCOVID-19 arrived in Latin America in late-February 2020, with the first registered case in São Paulo, Brazil. By late-July, the region had the most cases of any region in the world. By April 2021, Latin America had been hit by its third wave of the pandemic, registering more than 57 million cases and 1.3 million deaths. This introduction to Alternautas’ Special Issue on Critical Perspectives on COVID-19 in Latin America provides the backdrop of the coronavirus pandemic for the rest of the issue. It traces the global reverberations of COVID-19 and explores how they played out in Latin America, before then summarising the contributions of each of the articles in the issue in turn
Fiscal adjustment and gender inequalities in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic: what is the “new normal” about?
No full textDuring the last decade, Latin America has been coping with a new scenario characterized by a reborn of fiscal adjustment discourses. By 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has deepened this policy orientation that seems to stand as central to the response to the economic crisis.This paper argued that fiscal adjustments catalyzed by the COVID-19 pandemic have highlighted gender gaps, making women poorer in terms of incomes and time. Expenditure cuts triggered by constraints in fiscal revenues have a disproportionate effect on women and children. Women are more dependent on social policies because they are over-represented in poverty rates, informal work, and lower-income sectors. Likewise, women are employed in sectors that have been severely affected by the health and economic crisis
Developing into equal citizens? Historical re-creation of Roma as an underdeveloped minority
Get PDFThe extreme poverty many Roma experience in Europe sets a dark shadow over the continent considered to have a very high human development index. The contemporary discourse in the EU describes Roma both as a socio-economically disadvantaged group and an ethnically discriminated minority. A number of studies have argued that there is a link between ethnic discrimination and the extreme poverty many Roma experience as citizens in today\u27s Europe. However, the question remains: What are the rationales that the states use to justify this link? In this paper, I argue that local histories show how this link has been perpetuated by the representation of Roma as an underdeveloped minority; such representation has translated into hierarchy of rights according to which Roma would be awarded less rights their fellow citizens belonging to majority population would possess. This paper aims to show there has been a shift to holding Roma responsible for recreating their own position of discrimination and, with it, poverty, instead of acknowledgement that legislation and policies towards Roma contribute to their predicament. Challenging such a position, I look at how minority rights legislation was formulated in two EU Member States,Slovenia and Croatia (with a common history in Yugoslavia), from Minority Treaties after the First World War to the EU accession processes. While both countries have historically formulated uneven minority rights for Roma, Roma themselves demanded equal citizenship rights at the European Court of Human rights, such as the rights to clean drinking water and the right to education. These rights have been similarly denied based on the perception of Roma as an \u27underdeveloped minority.\u2
Environmental Crisis, Cli-fi, and the Fate of Humankind in Richard Jefferies’ After London and Robert Harris’ The Second Sleep
No full textThis article discusses two instances of ‘Anthropocene fiction’ (Trexler, 2015: 4) that engage with the environmental crisis that industrial modernity has generated: Richard Jefferies’ After London (1885), and Robert Harris’ The Second Sleep (2019), which both depict a future in which technological civilisation has collapsed, and the non-human world is resurgent. Like climate change fiction, or cli-fi, these novels are concerned with the elusive and unpredictable environmental risks that modern societies inadvertently create, and with finding ways to negotiate the representational challenge of those risks; unlike many instances of climate change fiction, however, these novels do not set out to warn their readers of what is to come, or lament the disaster they depict. They are instead concerned with the legacy of technological civilisation – a legacy of risk and uncertainty – and the question of whether that legacy can ever be escaped. Neither novel offers an answer; but nor do they foreclose its possibility
Towards Inclusivity at the University of Warwick: An oral history study
No full textAs part of the Then & Now project, oral histories were collected from staff and alumni about their experiences at the University of Warwick. During these interviews, participants often spoke about their own experiences of inclusion and exclusion at university, often in comparison to the perceived experience of students at university of today. Looking back to earlier decades of the 1960s, 70s, 80s and 90s, those interviewed described the institution as primarily white, male, and middle-class. But, in their oral history testimonies participants reported feeling that that inclusivity at Warwick has undergone a transformation over the last 50 years. This article reviews these interviews and considers what the interviewees’ experiences can add to discussions about inclusivity and accessibility within universities. By focusing on three themes that were identified from these interviews - gender, race and ethnicity, and class - the article explores changing attitudes and experiences of inclusion and exclusion at the University of Warwick 1965-present. The interviews indicate that significant changes have taken place with regards to gender equality, but that less sustained changes have been perceived to have occurred in relation to class and race. By reviewing a small sample of interviews that were collated as part of Then & Now, this article demonstrates the potential that further oral histories could offer to our understanding of inclusivity at the University of Warwick and the history of Higher Education
The Perils of Fundamentalism in France: Interview with Caroline Fourest by Stephen Cowden
Get PDFCaroline Fourest is a French feminist writer, film director, journalist, radio presenter at France Culture, and co-founder and editor of the magazine ProChoix. She has been a columnist with Charlie Hebdo and Le Monde and has written several influential essays on the political and religious right in France and the US. She is the author of a biography of the far-right politician Marine Le Pen and of a number of books including In Praise of Blasphemy: Why Charlie Hebdo is Not ‘Islamophobic’, Brother Tariq: the Doublespeak of Tariq Ramadan and most recently The Offended Generation.
Stephen Cowden teaches in the School of Social Professions at the London Metropolitan University. He is an editorial collective member of Feminist Dissent
Review of Secularism and Cosmopolitanism: Critical Hypotheses on Religion and Politics by Étienne Balibar
Get PDFLe poesie più recenti di Milo De Angelis
No full textThe article compares the poetic trends which emerged during the 1970s, and still present in the field of contemporary poetry, with the latest poems written by the Milanese author, Milo De Angelis. By underlining the problem of the crisis of the subject, the article also considers how this phenomenon may affect the vision of the poetic chronotope. Distancing itself from the dominant approach found in contemporary poetry, De Angelis\u27 latest collection, Linea intera, linea spezzata (2021), aims instead to recover the status of the subject and the autonomy of the lyrical encounter through a particular form of memory.
L’articolo confronta le tendenze evidenziatesi durante gli anni Settanta, e fin ora presenti nel campo della poesia contemporanea, con le ultime poesie dell’autore milanese Milo De Angelis. Rilevando il problema della crisi del soggetto, viene mostrato inoltre come tale fenomeno può incidere sulla visione del cronotopo poetico. Lontana dall’impostazione dominante, l’ultima raccolta di De Angelis, Linea intera, linea spezzata (2021), attraversando una particolare forma di memoria, si volge invece a recuperare lo statuto dell’io, nonché l’autonomia dell’incontro lirico