Santiago Fonseca Celada es un irredento solitario que nunca se ha sentido solo. Desde pequeño su afición era la fuga, tenía prisa por quemar el tiempo y, ya de joven, el viaje era una pasión que le llevaba a desaparecer largas temporadas en busca de algo que nunca alcanzó a definir ni a saber.
Ingresado en una fundación para enfermos a los que la medicina ya es solo un tratamiento paliativo, recibe la visita de su hermano que viene, como en otras ocasiones, a pasar unos días con él. En esas largas conversaciones nos ofrecen una tierna y descarnada radiografía familiar donde algunas figuras, como la del abuelo Tomás o la de los padres, por sí solas constituirían una memorable nouvelle.
Infancia, inolvidables juegos juveniles en el pueblo, viajes y primeras errancias… Así como la vida de Paco, inmigrante andaluz amigo del protagonista, con una historia a sus espaldas también novelesca. La recepción de la inmigración en la Barcelona de los años 40 y 50 con sus injusticias, su barraquismo y sus miserias.
Esta novela de un perdedor es también un relato de encuentros y despedidas y, asimismo, un repaso de querencias y amores que alientan esas vidas.
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.
