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Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook. City diplomacy in times of conflict
Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook’s academic and professional career is in the purest Atlanticist tradition. Specialising in the interface between foreign policy and cities,...
'Cròniques del fang'. When journalists wandered the streets
Through the book Cròniques del fang [Mud Chronicles], Jaume Fabre pays a fitting tribute to the journalist Josep Maria Huertas Claveria and the...
Redesigning the city’s cultural fabric
In 2021, Barcelona City Council adopted a Cultural Rights Plan designed to strengthen social cohesion through the recognition of the right to cultural...
An uncertain futureWho writes the rules of the capitalist game?
The capitalist game is about employing a social resource – the legal system – for private gain. It is played in the service of private actors, but the decisive actors...
An uncertain futureDemocracy, sovereignty and territory: Squaring the circle
How do democracy, sovereignty and territory relate to one another? The ownership and exercise...
An uncertain futureOur crisis of democracy
The beginning of the 21st century presents us with challenges that force democracies to improve. New challenges, both global and those specific of each...
An uncertain futureWhich future for democratic politics
We are up against a crisis of neoliberal hegemony that could pave the way for authoritarian governments, but that can also present the opportunity to restore and...
An uncertain futureThe irrelevance of truth
History has shown that power owes less to knowledge and the defence of truth than to the actual possibility of shaping and imposing a discourse. The real...
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