Después de entrar en una depresión al terminar de ver el documental The True Cost, me puse a pensar en lo importante que sería que el mundo entero viera este reportaje y que su contenido se compartiera con gente de todas las edades, entre más pronto mejor. The True Cost hace un análisis multidimensional de…
No one has the right to obey Hanna Arendt ¡Dios no trabaja los domingos! narra diferentes historias de mujeres en Ruanda, 20 años después del genocidio que en poco más de tres meses dejó mares de víctimas y de tristezas. A través de este reportaje, la directora alemana Leona Goldstein escenifica la tragedia que moviliza, que crea espacios…
Presentado para el Concurso “Género y Justicia” edición 2015.
De la Subdirección de Equidad de Género de la Suprema Corte de Justicia.
Foto de Lorena Wolffer.
“Los estereotipos son verdades cansadas.” George Steiner
“No creo en la “violencia de género”, creo que el género mismo es la violencia, que las normas de masculinidad y feminidad, tal y como las conocemos, producen violencia.” Beatriz Preciado
Abdul and his neighbors were squatting on land that belonged to the Airports Authority of India. Only a coconut-tree-lined thoroughfare separated the slum from the entrance to the international terminal. Serving the airport clientele, and encircling Annawadi, were five extravagant hotels: four ornate, marbly megaliths and one sleek blue-glass Hyatt, from the top-floor windows of…
Researching women’s access to the labor markets is a never-ending theme that seems to widen in a rhizomatic fashion where any question is followed by more questions that bring us back to the very beginning: which women? What work? What kind of access? Indonesia is the fourth most populous nation in the world after China,…
“Colombia’s Medellin miracle” WashingtonPost.com By Anthony Faiola – Jul 11, 2008 “Medellin Sheds Cocaine Image to Become Cultural Hot Spot” Bloomberg.com By Christopher Bagley – Nov 21, 2012 “Medellin Homicide Rate Tumbles After Mafia Pact” Insightcrime.org by Natalie Southwick – Nov 13, 2013 “Medellin: A city in Metamorphosis” Elpais.com by Jesus Ruiz Manila – Nov 13, 2013 Medellin,…
Mae Sot is a Western Thailand district that shares a border with Burma. Last week, on June 20, was the commemoration of the World Refugee Day and I had the chance to visit the Mae La Refugee Camp. According to UNHCR, there are more than 50 million refugees around the world, and half are women and children. Mae…
Flammable: Environmental Suffering in an Argentine Shantytown by Javier Auyero, Debora Alejandra Swistun “Knowledge about a poisoned environment, Flammable teaches us, is not solely shaped by what we see and smell and touch […] Experience of that polluted reality is, this book shows, socially and politically produced.” Javier Auyero and Debora Alejandra Swistun Auyero and…
From difference and identity to power “The relations of different nations among themselves depend upon the extent to which each has developed its production forces, the division of labour and internal intercourse” (Marx 1846: 38). We studied in the first section the interrelation of difference and identity and introduced its relation to power. Difference, identity…
Anthropology – Society, Difference and Identity The first professor of anthropology in the United States, Daniel G. Brinton, published in 1890, a compilation of ethnography lectures, Races and Peoples, that included a craniology survey listing features used to classify races. Brinton explained: “We are accustomed familiarly to speak of ‘higher’ and ‘lower’ races, and we…
Beyond "he" and "she" 