Paco Damas tenía claro desde muy joven que su vocación más incipiente era la del servicio a los demás; pero ¿cómo aunar esa primera vocación con su pasión por el arte hasta vertebrar toda una vida?
Este libro resume los avatares que recorren este camino desde la ciencia hasta el arte; para convertir la música y la literatura en una herramienta para la cultura de la paz, la educación, la igualdad, la solidaridad, los derechos humanos y el civismo.
El azar y la ventura, con una dosis de voluntad inquebrantable, han convertido su música a través de la literatura en un compromiso artístico, moral y ético en pos de una sociedad más culta y, por ende, más justa.
Estas canciones y estos poemas forman parte del sueño de alguien que quería navegar lejos, muy lejos, más allá de los confines del mar de olivos que le vio nacer.
Este sueño se ha convertido en realidad gracias a sus versos, a su música, a sus conciertos y al encuentro que está teniendo hoy contigo, lector.
In search of European Citizenship
1. Introduction: Claiming Citizenship Rights in Europe [Ali Emre Benli and Daniele Archibugi]
2. European Citizenship in Times of Crisis: What is Left? [Teresa Pullano]
PART I. The Refugees Challenge to European Citizenship
3. Addressing the Refugee Crisis by European Citizenship [Marco Cellini]
4. Refugees Traversing Borders: Disobedience as an Act of European Citizenship [Ali Emre Benli]
5. European Asylum Policy and Sexual Orientation [Ilaria Ricci]
PART II. European Citizens at the Fringe
6. Prisoner Voting Rights on a European Perspective: The Cases of McHugh & Others v. The United Kingdom and Thierry Delvigne v. Commune de Lesparre Médoc [Viola Scordia]
7. Who Votes and Who Can be Voted in the European Parliament Elections? [Ilaria Ricci]
8. Estonia’s Non-Citizens, Citizens of the European Union? [Gigi Mihaita]
9.Sterilisation without Informed Consent: How to Improve European Citizens’ Medical Agency [Olga Lenczewska]
10. Parallel Claims for the Human Right to Water: The Case of Roma in Slovenia [Marek Szilvasi]
PART III. Emerging Issues and Political Subjects
11. The “Right to be Forgotten”: Asserting Control over our Digital Identity or Re-writing History? [Alice Pease]
12. A Right to Protection for Whistleblowers [Daniele Santoro and Manohar Kumar]
13. The Right to Become Visible: A Case for Aesthetic Activism on the EU Level [Daniel Tkatch]
Epilogue
14. Claiming Rights to Rejuvenate European Integration [Daniele Archibugi and Ali Emre Benli]
Daniele Archibugi is a Research Director at the Italian National Research Council (CNR-IRPPS), Italy, and Professor of Innovation, Governance and Public Policy at the University of London, Birkbeck College, UK. In 2006 he was appointed Honorary Professor at the University of Sussex, UK, and is an adviser to the European Union, the OECD, the Council of Europe, several UN agencies and various national governments.
Ali Emre Benli has been awarded research positions at the University of Rijeka, Croatia, the Italian National Research Council (CNR-IRPPS), Italy, Durham University, UK and the University of Graz, Austria, and is the Chair of Economic and Social Ethics at the UCLouvain, Belgium. He has also been a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey.
