Tag Archives: Spain
The Vertiginous: Temporalities and Affects of Social Vertigo: Gattopardismo
Damián Omar Martínez
Two years after I had finished my fieldwork in the city of Murcia, Spain, I was in Germany when my phone began to vibrate intensely: it was the WhatsApp group of residents from the neighbourhood of La Paz, a marginalised district in the east of the city. Ambrosio1, one of the neighbourhood’s activists, shared aRead more
ATC: On Solidarity: The promise of solidarity
Gerhild Perl
Solidarity, one might say, emerges through empathizing with the fate of others. Thereby, empathy is the rather affectively intuited than deliberately chosen response to an ethical obligation imposed upon us by a known or unknown Other. I thus regard empathy as a fundamental precondition for finding common ground with other people. But how do solidarity-basedRead more