Photo by jean wimmerlin on Unsplash Originale: “Lugares comunes”. Juan Claudio de Ramón. El País. 9 Iuglio 2018 La diversità impoverisce se è usata come pretesto per la segregazione La diversità è ricchezza. Ma solo quando le differenze si incontrano nella persona, come i metalli si fondono in un crogiolo o come tanti fili formano un tappeto; la diversità impoverisce se usata […]
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Trite remarks on Catalonia
Photo by jean wimmerlin on Unsplash Originally published in Spanish: “Lugares comunes”. Juan Claudio de Ramón. El País. 9th July 2018 Diversity entails richness. But only when the differences meet in the individual, as metals melt in a crucible, or when different strands are woven into a tapestry; diversity impoverishes when used as an excuse for segregation. Bridges must be built. […]
Des lieux communs
Photo by jean wimmerlin on Unsplash Publié en espagnol dans El País sous le titre: “Lugares comunes”. Juan Claudio de Ramón. El País. 9 Juillet 2018 La diversité appauvrit quand elle est utilisée comme prétexte pour la ségrégation. La diversité est une source de richesse. Mais seulement quand les différences se trouvent chez une personne, comme dans un creuset où se fondent […]
Quale leadership per la Catalogna?
Foto: Justin Luebke | Unsplash Originale: «¿Qué liderazgo para Cataluña?». Juan Claudio De Ramón. El País. 1 giugno 2018 Non è forse un progetto migliore per la Spagna essere una nazione europeista e plurilingue, civica e inclusiva, piuttosto che essere un arretrato Stato plurinazionale, composto da uniformità etnolinguistiche giustapposte che non vano d’accordo? La letteratura sociologica distingue tra […]
Quel leadership pour la Catalogne ?
Photo: Justin Luebke | Unsplash Publié à l’origine en espagnol: «¿Qué liderazgo para Cataluña?». Juan Claudio De Ramón. El País. 1 juin 2018 La littérature sociologique nous apprend à distinguer deux types de leadership : un premier qu’on pourrait nommer « transactionnel » et un autre à caractère « transformationnel ». Le leader transactionnel gère une routine organisatrice qui n’est pas mise en […]
What kind of leadership for Catalonia?
Photo by Justin Luebke on Unsplash Originally published in Spanish: «¿Qué liderazgo para Cataluña?». Juan Claudio De Ramón. El País. 1st of June 2018 Sociology literature distinguishes between transactional and transformational leadership. Transactional leaders manage an organizational routine that that they don’t question: Their goal is that nobody break the existing rules; when that happens, and a rule […]
The Little Loves and «El Procés»
Originally published in Spanish: “Los pequeños amores y el procés» Juan Claudio de Ramón. The Objective. The Barcelonian journalist Pablo Mediavilla Costa published some days ago, regarding the Catalan independence process, something I found both sad and moving: “Lucky all of you that didn’t have to witness the fall into the folly of someone loved […]
Lose to win
Published originally in Spanish. Juan Claudio de Ramón. El País Nationalism needs to lose so that it can vindicate. That’s why today it blocks the alternative narrative, too. It was Jon Juaristi, in El bucle melancólico (The melancholic loop), who synthesized in the most effective way the strategy of nationalism: lose to win. To recreate […]
Le « droit à décider » est-il démocratique ?
Publié à l’origine en espagnol: “¿Es democrático el derecho a decidir?” Juan Claudio de Ramón. El País Un des aspects les plus étonnants dans la crise territoriale espagnole, c’est l’engouement acritique et presque automatique à gauche pour le « droit à décider ». Toute la gauche catalane, et une bonne partie de la gauche espagnole, a déterminé […]
Is the ‘right to decide’ democratic?
Published originally in Spanish. Juan Claudio de Ramón. El País. One of the most striking aspects of the Spanish territorial crisis is the uncritical and almost automatic embracing by the left of the famous “right to decide”. The entire Catalan left, and a large part of the Spanish left too, have endorsed the use of […]