Six books that deserve to be read this summer
- With the help of ARGIA’s wording, six reading proposals.
The subject of transgression. Education as a practice of freedom
Bell Hooks
Translation: Amaia Apaulaza Ollo
Katakrak, 2023
214 pages
Both the one who lived as a student in a school for blacks, and the liberating pedagogy that then led to the practice as a teacher, collected in this book translated to Basque last year the writer, professor and feminist activist Bell Hooks her resistances, fears, errors and fruits. Taking education as its axis, in the classroom dynamics the need to decolonize class, race and gender, marginalized voices and bodies or the revolutionary force of education is mentioned. Mikel Garcia Idiakez
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Extraterritorial
Garazi Arrula
Txalaparta, 2023
200 pages
I've heard or read many praises about Garazi Arrula's second book of stories: the nausea, the contradictions and the sinks generated by our changing capitalist moment, the wealth of records in their characters, the story about stories, their ability to splash the text with malicious irony, the open ends... However, there is a much simpler but less important reason to read the Earth: immerse yourself in the higher writing, let yourself be carried by the stream and enjoy the pleasure of reading pura.Zigor Olabarria Oleaga
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Transformative economies
Oscar García Jurado and several members of Olatukoop
Olatukoop, 2024
92 pages
More than a book, it's a manual to walk with your hands and dream. Or “a hammer to open cracks,” as it says in the inlet. He reviews some of the economic concepts that we use in the work and construction of our people: capitalist, social, common, feminist economy... What is each and what is not. It also makes proposals from sovereignty and self-organization, from transformation and territories. A gift from Olatukoop to celebrate its 10th anniversary, for all who are available in non-capitalist license P2P.Urko Apaolaza Ávila
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Occupation and colonization of Palestine
Perry Anderson
Translation: Amaia Astobiza e Iñigo Roque
Katakrak, 2024
172 pages
If you want to know the Palestinian history of the twentieth century, read, for example, Palestine, a hundred years of colonialism (Rasihd Khalidi). And to understand what Israel is, the Idea of Israel. A history of power and knowledge (Ilan Pappé). Both are essential books to understand the genocide that Israel is carrying out against the Palestinians. But much shorter, deeper and if you want a good lunch in Basque, Perry Anderson's lunch is great. They are two articles from the New Left Review magazine of 2001 and 2015, and offer key points to understand the history and actuality of this oppressor n.Xabier Letona Biteri
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The people send more
Raquel Varela and Robson Vilalba
Translation: Eskarne Mujika Gallastegi
Txalaparta, 2024
175 pages
This comic book is an invitation to learn about the deepest social revolution of the last decades in Europe, when the 50th anniversary of the Revolution of the Carnations of Portugal is celebrated. But it's not a history book. It tells how the people came to govern, through the experiences of the protagonist José, a true story, which was dedicated to the leftist movements. For me the most unknown: the dimension of the popular power of three years and how reformism managed to stem that dimension. The black and white illustrations by Robson Vilalba represent the story in a very special way. Lander Arbelaitz Mitxelena
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All in the Sun (All in the Sun)
Ana Penyas
Salamandra Graphic, 2021
160 pages
Mass tourism, urban speculation and social drama. Penyas will question the gentrification and productive model that the problems of the cities are increasingly being caused by the destruction suffered by the Levantine coast in the 1960s. For decades, the rise of neoliberalism tells us how the expectations and projects of family members will be transformed. A graphic chronicle, as beautiful as the raw one, about those who had to leave their place because of the brick boom. Maitane Gartziandia Agirrezabala
The following infographic is based on the report number 55 of the Delàs Peace Research Center of Catalonia, published in October 2022. In the report, Xavier Bohigas, Pere Brunet, Teresa de Fortuny, Anna Montull García and Pere Ortega analysed in depth the links between... [+]
Predicting the end of anything has become fashionable. The end of the human being, ideologies, community, authority, philosophy, or democracy. Are they labels full of sensationalism?
Maybe it was Francis Fukuyama who started that final fashion. After the collapse of the Berlin... [+]
From the Mountain of Navarre, thousands of people took to America in the 19th century to survive in grazing or other activities. Historian Raquel Idoate recovers in her thesis the history of some 4,000 of them: how the trip was made, how they were invested in, roles about... [+]
I have to go to the hairdresser,” I thought at the beginning of the course, and I didn’t go. I started with long hair and ended in the same way (halfway down the road I made a mohín and cut a piece of it. Nobody noticed. Neither do I.) It hides me if I lack the gesture and,... [+]
We are in the most industrialized territory of the Basque Country, the Left Margin of the Ibaizabal, or the Ría de Bilbao, if you will. Here the fireplaces had ordered it once. But to feed them, we used not only coal, but also the sweat of thousands of workers, and even more,... [+]
The epic is built on the lives of many men and knowing that makes society more mature.” The writer Bibiana Candia is right. In Azucre (Pepitas de Calabaza, 2021) we are told the tragedy of the enslaved Galician migrants of the 19th century, but that story would have been... [+]
Despite the black skin and curly hair, they remained invincible men, with the intelligence and resentment of human beings.” So he wrote about the slaves CRL James in the book Jakobino Beltzak, who masterfully narrates the Haitian revolution. So many brutalities, torture and... [+]
If you manage to escape the multitude of tourists and look from the Concha railing to the Donostia pier, perhaps the imagination will accompany you in the time when it was an intense marine commercial city, in which the soundtrack of the gulls will accompany you. Perhaps you are... [+]
