Category: Articles

• March 27, 2010

  Globalization: “Freeters, combini and Uniqlo”

  [A version of this article was first published in Kansai Scene magazine and was co-written with Anil Ramsingh.] How is globalization happening? The people of Japan have a strong sense of belonging. Group identity comes before individual identity and the most basic unit of society exists in ie and mura, which literally mean ‘house and…
• March 27, 2010

  Barcelona teens addiction to mobile phones

  [First published in Catalonia Today on 20 November 2008] PDF version:userfiles/file/MobilePhoneAddictionInBarcelona.pdf   Barcelona psychologist, Vega González Bueso
• February 17, 2010

  Translation of “There is only one race: the human race.”

  (A manifesto by anti-racist scientists)   These were the words of scientist Rita Levi Montalcini (also attributed to Gandhi and Satyendranath). My English translation from the Spanish: I.  Human races do not exist. The existence of human races is an abstraction that has come about from a false interpretation of the small physical differences that…
• January 18, 2010

  Australian Sunday Magazine article with our (8 year old) son Hugo about life in Spain

  PDF version, click here
• June 27, 2009

  The Only Way Is…

  [For secondary school students]         When you become a kid You’re always looking UP At grown-UPs And some of them think you should…   Keep UP with the others Stand UP when yer told to Live UP to expectations And always turn UP on time   Eat UP all that dinner Drink UP all…
• June 20, 2009

  Rugby League in Catalonia

    [A version of this article was first published in The Girona Resident magazine]   Here’s a quiz question. Apart from football, in what other sport does a Catalan team play with the best that the world has to offer? If you were to ask this question in Barcelona or Girona, not many people’s answers…
• June 19, 2009

  “A better job:” English language newspapers in Japan

  [First published in the Australian Journalism Review, 2001.] userfiles/file/EnglishLanguageNewspapersInJapan.pdf   
• June 19, 2009

  “A hunger for antiquity:” Interview with artist Rohan Chalmers

  [First published in Catalonia Today on 29 May 2008] userfiles/file/Rohan Chalmers Vilafranca Artist Interview.pdf   
• June 16, 2009

  June Haiku

     [Photo: Pedro Duarte] [England, 2006]   Sitting in the dark A crack in every window Ants investigate   ……..   Against my own will Hours spent with petty minds And their dirty mouths   ………    No feelings or words People tend flowers under That strange lamp the sun   ……..    Mouth wide…
• June 16, 2009

  Death Notices

  [First published in “Love and Fear: A Poetry Anthology,” 2003.] she died even the ambulance was ambivalent   a baby died lying still on its back they thought about their income tax   1000 died spiraling down in a plane his world remained exactly the same   a fly dies legs kicking in the air…