The Selective Iconoclasm Of The Far-Right
On May 25th, a great part of the world was shaken after watching how the 46-year-old US citizen George Floyd was killed at the hands of four local police agents while he…
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Carmen Aguilera-Carnerero
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“The media censorship”, free speech and the radical right: The case of Spain’s VOX party
Introduction The word “infodemic” was coined by the Word Health Organization (WHO) to describe the excess of information, usually false, on a particular problem, used to hinder the process of…
Sinhala, Tamil and the National Identity of Sri Lanka
The ideas of unity, reconciliation and coexistence must consider a Sri Lankan identity beyond one ethnicity, religion and language. In March 2015, the unexpected newly elected president of Sri Lanka,…
The Spanish radical right, COVID-19 and the “socio-communism”
Introduction On March 8 2020, thousands of Spaniards were summoned to join two radically different mass gatherings in Madrid: a demonstration to celebrate International Women’s Day, and a VOX meeting…
The Tale of the Two Spains
In Spain, two sides have emerged: traitors vs. patriots. This division is the last thing the country needs right now. The arrival of Podemos and VOX on the Spanish political…
Islamophobia in Sri Lanka or the Sterilization Obsession
Coined in the Runnymede Trust’s seminal report in 1997, the neologism of “Islamophobia” has been endlessly used to express the irrational hostility towards Muslims and Islam. This antagonism has been…
In Spain, A Perversion Of Textbooks To Fit Political Objectives
Education is being used as a dividing instrument as various political coalitions seek to distort curriculums to fit their agendas. Last 5th September, on the eve of the beginning of…
VOX and the rhetoric of gender violence
English Defence League members staging a demonstration in support of Dutch MP Geert Wilders in March 2010 in London. Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images On the 3rd of September, 2019 a…
In Sri Lanka, Cartoonists Take on the Alt-Right
Cartoonists are modern jesters but, unlike those merrymen of yore, they are no longer safe. It has been traditionally accepted in modern societies that the media play a key role…
On inclusive and exclusive flags
Flags are one of the most recognisable cultural artefacts that identify any community since they confer social cohesion to the group (Reichl 2004, Knowlton 2012,Leone 2018). The semiotic relevance of…