Enrique Galván-Álvarez

Bio: Enrique Galván-Álvarez is an academic researcher from Universidad Internacional de La Rioja. The author has contributed to research in topics: Reading (process) & Sovereignty. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 8 publications receiving 28 citations. Previous affiliations of Enrique Galván-Álvarez include International University, Cambodia & Oxford Brookes University.

Decolonising the state: subversion, mimicry and criminality

Abstract: This special issue brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to reflect on the decolonisation of nation-states through acts of subversion, mimicry and criminality in the colonial and p...

Rojava: a state subverted or reinvented?

Abstract: This article discusses how Rojava and its ‘Autonomous Administration’ simultaneously subvert and reinstate the state(s) they are fighting. Based on Abdullah Ocalan’s (b. 1948) conversion to liberta...

Anarchism and the Anti-Colonial Canarian Imagination: the Missing Flag

Abstract: In Under Three Flags: Anarchism and the Anti-Colonial Imagination (2005), Benedict Anderson explores the transatlantic networks of resistance that, at the turn of the twentieth century, brought together anarchists and anti-colonial fighters from the Spanish colonies. Although he discusses in great depth the independence movements of Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines, Anderson does not mention the Canary Islands and their role Fig. 1. Commemorative bust in Parque Secundino Delgado, Author’s photo. Delgado has been celebrated as the founding father of Canarian nationalism, which has been in office in the Islands for the last twenty-five years.

Ancestry, Uncertainty and Dislocation in V. S. Naipaul’s Half a Life

Abstract: The discourse of roots and routes is now all pervasive in diaspora literature and beyond. First used by Paul Gilroy (1993: 19) in his discussion of the Black Atlantic, the pun-cum-metaphor has been re-engaged and rephrased in a number of ways. Thus, Jonathan Friedman (2002: 21–36) explains how critical studies have journeyed ‘From Roots to Routes’, James Clifford (1997: 3) elaborates on the various implications of both terms, and there is even a Jewish travel agency, ‘Routes’, that offers you ‘routes to your roots’ in Eastern Europe (‘Routes’, 2010). Meanwhile, Stuart Hall discusses roots as routes as some sort of opposition: ‘instead of asking what are people’s roots, we ought to think about what are their routes, the different points by which they have come to be now; they are in a sense, the sum of those differences’ (1999). However anecdotal it all might sound, the fact remains that the narratives of roots vs. routes, roots to routes, or roots as routes is increasingly popular among not only scholars of diaspora literature but also Christian charities, music projects or performance festivals. Therefore, it seems difficult, if not impossible, to use the pun in a way that has not been used before.

Coetzee’s Foe and Borges: An Intertextual Reading

Abstract: Foe (1986) is one of the most ambiguous and controversial novels written by J.M. Coetzee, and has been discussed extensively by criticism from a great variety of theoretical positions. This essay p...

Revolting subjects: social abjection and resistance in neoliberal Britain

Abstract: from topic, providing both stand-alone chapters and a logical, progressive structure through the volume. It is neither too wide nor too narrow in time or geography, making it an excellent and enduring choice for libraries internationally. Yuill has produced an academic book that is not light on history, theory, examples or argument, but is yet eminently readable and accessible for students, practitioners in social care and health, policy-makers and people facing the issues in their own families and communities alike. There may well be a couple of editorial slips in referencing here and there, but Assisted Suicide is still by far the best book on this subject in many years; the author should be proud of this important volume that brilliantly and eloquently tackles injustice and prejudice around assisted suicide. In hardback, it will also provide a useful tool of defence against the next medic who tries to use the Liverpool Care Pathway when I am in hospital.