Have you ever heard anything about Burning Man? Do you know where it takes place? Do you know when it started? While living in Nevada State, I had very little excuse not to have a quick look. Thus, I attended the 2008 Edition that was...
This article aims to describe the basque complex diversity of the Basque citizenship that I titled, Basque Citizenship 2.0. Towards the political changes in the social dynamics, technology is using new technological tools. However, they do not directly transform the civilian fabric automatically....
Shortly before the 2008 crisis, the continental European countries and regions such as the Basque Country started facing an incredible paradox: while public policies encouraged youngsters and the unemployed to run an entrepreneurial idea, politicians, civil servants and fixed employees did not favour it...
The goal was to leave the West of the USA in order to get Vitoria-Gasteiz, in the Basque Country (Spain) to teach Continuous Education Teachers gathered for a Course in Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship. The beginning of the work trip started with being stuck in...
Igor Calzada, Sociologist and Senior Researcher - Project Director on the Mondragon Co-operative Corporation at Mondragon University - Mik (Basque Country - Spain), is a visiting scholar at the Center during 2008 and 2009. He is conducting research for his PhD dissertation. Igor received a...
This article addresses a question related to the real matter of the place in which we decide "where we are from". Always an open question with an uncertain personal reply that implies deep personal and collective consequences for the human being....
This article suggests looking at translocal connections between the USA and the Basque reality, to capture the essence of the outstanding contemporary digital hyper-connected societies, both based on different backgrounds....
This article shows the current status of the understanding of Social Innovation as a newly leitmotif in the Basque Country's public policies....
In this article, I reflected on the similarities that lie between speed of the knowledge society and the need to escape from it as well. I mixed Eastwood's Alcatraz movie, Beck's Risk Society with my permanent concern with the challenges ahead for the Basque Society....
