Bitter-sweet success in Spain’s regional and local election forces Podemos to choose - between joining with other left parties, following the example of Barcelona and Madrid, or going it alone in the autumn legislative election.
More than through any other lens, migration foregrounds gender as a construct that is also at once a process in the making.
As an anthropologist and ethnographer, I attempt to gain access to the participants’ memories in the way I would have liked to have been interviewed.
Using participatory, biographical and visual methods, we got in touch with women’s ‘realities’ in a way that demanded critical reflection.
Key recommendations from the exploration of migration, relocation and settlement in an urban context, through the ethnographic project, “Women of the World: Home and Work in Barcelona”.
An open letter to our friends in Podemos.
It is no longer the extraordinariness of the image, but rather its familiarity that lends credibility to the representation of how these immigrant women have made new lives in the city.
Interviews for the UNU-GCM project, Women of the World, tell us about the encounter of women immigrants in Barcelona with new language(s).
The populist discourse of Podemos and Syriza is the attempt to cope with a post-industrial and crisis-ridden economy in which traditional class identifications fail to mobilise the electorate.
With the two party system under threat in Spain following last week's elections, the right is sounding increasingly ridiculous as it accuses the left of trying to destroy constitutional democracy.
Since the launch of Barcelona en Comú less than a year ago, Colau has taken pains to emphasize that she is just the most visible face of a movement that is horizontal in structure and collective in spirit.
