Posts Tagged with ‘Paris’
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Paris: The Politics of Language Choice
20 May 2012
Two miserable years spent in a French classroom and a further year at college eventually saw me scrape a B grade at GCSE level at the grand old age of 20. Other than a tiny smattering of Russian, that's the only language I speak other than English and I speak …
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Paris: The Colonial Legacy of France
14 May 2012
Over the last fifty or so years, all across Europe, the old Imperial powers have given up (most of) their empires. Rather than identifying themselves as the head of an international support base, they have sought to force a new identity as a geographical union of equals - although it …
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Paris: Down and Out in Paris
14 May 2012Wandering around Central Paris through the day gives the impression of a very clean, very affluent modern Western city. There is little of the urban decay which is very visible in Athens, nor do you see the struggle for survival as you wander among the expensive cafes and posh shops. …
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Paris: Rage du Nuit
13 May 2012
When someone travels alone abroad, you run into the cultural norms of the country that you find yourself in. As a woman travelling abroad alone, one of those norms is the level and manner of sexual harassment that you face. Sexual harassment isn't some bizarre foreign custom, it happens all …
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Paris: The centre and the periphery
12 May 2012
Arriving at an airport at the outskirts of Paris, it was a long bus ride to arrive in the centre. As we approached Paris, the low and high rises of the banlieues where only partially obscured by steel and perpex barriers that sealed off the motorway, while the leafy avenues …
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Second Council House: On Tour
10 Apr 2012
The idea for this for this tour came out of Glasgow Coalition of Resistance meeting. Overall CoR has been a brilliant experience - one of the best left organisations that I have been in. It has quite a diversity in terms of political participation, but also with a high participation …