24 May Leitmotif (Euskal) Gizarte Berrikuntza
This article shows the current status of the understanding of Social Innovation as a newly leitmotif in the Basque Country's public policies....
16 May La Fuga
In this article, I reflected on the similarities that lie between speed of the knowledge society and the need to escape from it as well. I mixed Eastwood's Alcatraz movie, Beck's Risk Society with my permanent concern with the challenges ahead for the Basque Society....
06 May Writers in Between Languages > Minority Literatures in the Global Scene. CBS 2008 Literature Conference. (Reno-Nevada USA)
Between 15-17th May 2008, I participated in the International Conference on "Writers in Between Languages. Minority Literatures in the Global Scene" organized by the Centre for Basque Studies at the University of Nevada, in Reno (USA). Among other participants: Bernardo Atxaga, Joseba Zulaika, Aurelia Arkotxa, Mariasun...
05 May Center for Basque Studies & Reno Half Marathon in 2008
The first thing I did when I arrived at Reno, Nevada (USA) was run the Rock'n'River Half Marathon (21 km./13 miles). ...
23 Apr IdentitateaK
This article tackles a difficult and always slippery term: Identity. Arousing confusion when it refers to certain sociopolitical realities, the author tries to locate it in the Social Innovation paradigm....
09 Apr Mi república
Ikea launched an advertisement which they used to spread the idea of the indoors domestic culture: "Come into the independent republic of your HOME". Bearing in mind the massive influence of this advertisement and the impact in the Basque Country, I reflected on the fact...
06 Apr Gaindegia > the institution for the Basque geographies’ data compilation / Euskal (Herriko) Datuak
As a researcher, I was grateful to start using the different data compilation made by Gaindegia. I congratulate them on starting to collect data from three different administrative Basque entities: the Autonomy, Navarra and the three French provinces....
26 Mar Centres for Art and Creative Industries in Spain and in Europe: So what?
After visiting some Spanish (Caixa Forum, LABoral, Tabakalera, among others) and international centre (Kiasma, FACT, ZKM, among other), I came across one question that is already in my research agenda....
13 Mar Fashion & Self-expression
This article was written to capture the relationship between the self expressionism and the urban personality/branding. The author pointed out the different manner in which this relationship occurs among different cities....