Joxe Manuel Odriozola
15-08-2023, BERRIA.
Abstract:
Spain is not only a state, Spain is also a nation, Joxe Manuel Odriozola reminds us in this article. A nation that functions as such in the Basque Country under Spanish rule. A nation that aspires that the Basques south of the Pyrenees identify with it. A nation that seeks, in short, to substitute in our...
Izaro Gorostidi
11-02-2023, BERRIA.
Abstract:
In this article, Professor Izaro Gorostidi tells us about her visit to Uruguay and her contact with the local Basque diaspora. A Basque diaspora that clings to the identity of its ancestors, and that does not understand the scant commitment of our nationalist political parties to the Basque independence cause.
The author states that this political impotence is...
Karmelo Landa
01-02-2023, GARA.
Abstract:
In this article Karmelo Landa replies to a previous article by Julen Zabalo. In his previous article, Julen Zabalo proposed that in order to achieve a state of our own we would have to change the way we understand the Basque nation, and reduce the importance we give to the basic factors that make us a nation...
Xabier Arregi
3-12-2022, BERRIA.
Abstract:
This article by Doctor of Philosophy Xabier Arregi exposes the selective memory of the Spanish. According to Spanish politicians and historians, only the organization ETA has operated violently during the last 150 years in the Basque Country, spanning from 1960 to 2011. By contrast, they ignore the fact that Spanish socialist gunmen shot dead approximately one thousand Basques...
Jexux Larrañaga
17-11-2018, BERRIA.
Abstract:
What are we talking about when we refer to a Basque education system? Professor Jexux Larrañaga tells us that a Basque education system is not only that which is articulated in the Basque language, but that it must also insert the language into its own cultural and identity system. Our education system must provide our young people...
Alex Aginagalde
30-09-2022, ARGIA.
Abstract:
In this article, the author denounces the scarce presence of the Basque language in the cinematographic offer. For example, at the recent San Sebastian film festival, only 10% of the program was shown in Basque. In the cinemas of the Basque Country, only between 1% and 2% of the films can be seen in our language. As...
Agustina Pontesta
18-09-2022, BERRIA.
Abstract:
Lately, there have been frequent attacks against ikastolak (the definition of ikastola, here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikastola) in the Basque media from certain sectors that defend the Basque public school. In response to these attacks, the author of this article reminds us that the ikastolas were born as a popular initiative in the midst of Franco's dictatorship to protect the...
JJ Agirre
19-08-2022, ZUZEU.
Abstract:
In this article, JJ Agirre wants to clarify that not all cultural production made in the Basque Country deserves to be called "Basque". Do Basque singers who sing in Spanish (or French) make "Basque culture"? And Basque writers who write in Spanish? Can the Basque-Spanish writer Fernando Aramburu, who lives in Germany but writes in Spanish, be...
Jose Mari Pastor
04-06-2022, BERRIA.
Abstract:
The Spanish do not admit, to any degree, that Spain is a multinational state. In other words, that there are other nations, besides the Spanish, in the Spanish state. Admitting that would be traumatic for them, a true national catastrophe. The Spaniards, both those on the right and those on the left, only admit of one...
Jonjo Agirre
15-04-2022, ARGIA.
Abstract:
Recently the parliament of the Western Basque Country, with the support of the Basque Parliamentary nationalist parties, has approved a new education law. The author of the article focuses on the linguistic aspect of the new law, which is quite confusing and is not decidedly committed to a system of Basque language immersion.
Indeed, the new law does...
