N112 - Jul 19
Lessons from the crisisIn 2008, the worst economic crisis hit since the Great Crash of 1929. The recession did away with companies, jobs, housing and the life plans of millions of people. It weakened the welfare state and social cohesion. Economic recovery has not resulted in greater social justice but rather greater inequality. What have we learned from this upheaval?
DossierLessons from the crisis
Lessons from the crisisOpen wounds
There are more poor people today, and they have even less than before the crisis. Organised citizenship has tackled this situation with social innovation and...
Lessons from the crisisThere is an alternative, it is progressive capitalism
Is capitalism compatible with democracy and prosperity? The rise in inequalities in the early 21st century has had worrying implications in liberal...
Lessons from the crisisFrom the mortgage scam to the rent scam
A decade after the worst real estate bubble in history burst, access to housing is still one of the major social problems. And it is because states operate as another...
Lessons from the crisisDivides that separate, bridges to be built
Europe’s economic reconstruction in the second half of the 20th century focussed on providing liberal democracies with institutions that would protect...
Lessons from the crisisInequality in the age of disconnection
The economic crisis has widened the gaps (labour, generation, gender and fiscal) that contribute to exacerbating inequality. If societies continue to increase these...
Lessons from the crisisDisparity drives us further apart: psychological effects of economic inequality
Economic inequality is conducive to individualism. Living in unequal societies makes us more concerned about our social position; the greater the difference, the...
Lessons from the crisisSocial innovation: different responses from organized citizens
In the face of the post-crisis neoliberal siren calls, crying out for individual responsibility, civil society has organized itself to provide a collective response...
Other contents
Knitting spaces of feminist thought
Fina Birulés
Distilling thought involves the strenuous task of condensing sense and syntactic skill. Those who know Fina Birulés know of her tenacious precision in thought and...
Reinventing work in a more humane and ecological society
Thinker of reference in the study of work, Méda impresses with her passionate, direct, documented and rigorous discourse in defence of work in general and of wage...
Tourism, between wealth and residents’ complaints
Barcelona receives more than 12 million visitors per year for both business and pleasure. The city is the location of one out of every three tourism companies in...
Who does the reversal of a public land designation affect? The cases of Satalia and Font de la Guatlla
Classed as green areas by the General Metropolitan Plan, the small neighbourhoods of Satalia and Font de la Guatlla have long lived under the threat of expropriation...
Debbie and Humbert
Debbie and Humbert got married on the same day that Ibiza died. Carla found the turtle with her head inside her shell and her legs stretched out. Her friends...
Culture, a tool for reconciling antagonism
Against the strength of the market, which spins people outside the city, culture can be a tool that helps them to overcome marginalities and puts them on equal...
Cultural Democracy
If culture is to help us to create a community, the consumer of art must also be a participant and not a mere spectator. Participation enables us to broaden our point...
The prince of the black market
Julio Muñoz Ramonet, the invisible prince of the black market, left his palace on Carrer de Muntaner to the city of Barcelona, along with the extraordinary collection...
Marta Pessarrodona, or love is what remains
Coinciding with her distinction with the Premi d’Honor de les Lletres Catalanes 2019, Marta Pessarrodona (Terrassa, 1941) has just published Variacions profanes...
A puzzle in the service of love and writing
The debut novel by young Pol Beckmann (Barcelona, 1991), that has received the Llibreter 2019 award in the category of other literatures, is a multi-faceted literary...
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