Rethinking Cultural Heritage
When discussing cultural heritage, the emphasis should not be on the burden of preservation as such, but on the opportunity to renew, to rethink one’s vocation and to recompose it in the current socio-cultural context and to dream for a better future.
Il-Lingwa u l-Wirt Kulturali
Il-kelma ġġorr ħafna aktar responsabbilitajiet minn sempliċi għodda ta' komunikazzjoni.
A Hollow Heritage?
The article explores how we relate to our Christian cultural heritage, which is intended as a pathway of faith. Such heritage may have had this core purpose hollowed out and been reduced to tourist attractions, but it can still be of relevance today if properly understood.
Cultural Heritage Through Music
Cultural Heritage is not about inanimate objects or old buildings. It is about stories and experiences. Music has a crucial role in the preservation, dissemination, and continuation of those stories, and must work in conjunction with other disciplines in order to ensure our cultural enrichment and be a positive change in the world.
The Land always Remembers
In Christianity we learn that a central expression of faith is remembrance. As Pope Francis told us in his visit to Malta this year, we need to remember how to be kind, also to our land.
Multiple Identities, Bits of Nations coming together
To say that migration is a human right sounds like a tautology, given the facts: the world is multicultural, and multiracial (for those who hold to the concept of race).
Maltese NGOs: Stories of hope with a focus of community building aspect.
In an ideal world, no NGOs will be necessary, as the people in authority should be conscious of what is necessary for better living, and should work for what is right without the need to be pushed into doing so. Until this happens, NGOs will have to struggle through, with the hope that things get better.
The egalitarian role of welfare state policies (compulsory education, free health care, state pensions) in Europe (social policy/history)
Are we being complacent and taking the welfare state for granted? Is there a general sense of entitlement that could potentially endanger the welfare state?
Out of place: experiences of belonging in Malta
Any open attitude towards dialogue cannot ignore the implications of “migration as crisis”, which has been a generic phrase in media, political and academic discourses since the early 2010s. We are still, in many ways, under its shadow.
Multicultural Malta – a prophesized threat or historical feature?
The following is a reflection on history, even though it will invariably discuss events and implications that are more recent. The reason for this is that it deals with concepts of memory, or rather the lack of it, in the shaping of a perceived identity.