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is mistreated, the culture is a-cultured, and Galician people are migrating or dying.We cannot be happy by just waiting: we want to shake this great Atlantic rock, andeverybody who wants to work with us will be welcome.We need to think bearing Galicia in mind. If our territory, our culture, our societyhas unique elements, also our way to think and to make things has to reflect thesecircumstances. But we cannot forget that we are and we want to continue being inthe World. This obliges us to reflect and to have conscience that an hypothetic changein the global scale only can be possible through a lot of changes in the local scale.Nowadays, Galician Geography was only able to have a little growth, despite thatthe existence of very good approaches of professionals working and researching inGalicia. Also regarding to this we are an appendix of what it is currently done inSpain.The building of a Galician Geography from a critical-radical perspective was acomplicated task. It was necessary to show less well-known authors in Galician Geographythrough works, notes and papers. This has been achieved with David Harvey,Doreen Masey, Neil Smith, Don Mitchell, among others. It was also necessary tolink Galician problems with the new trends in spatial analysis: the analysis of thelandscape (E. Cuínas), the concerns about gender and exclusion spaces (X. Santos),the climatic evolution and the associated hazards (A. Martí and M. Cabalar), the newinterpretations of the urban universe, with issues like gentrification and segregation(B. Estêvez, M. J. Piñeira and R. Sanz), the mobility as the big challenge of the 21 thcentury (M. Pazos), the topic of Social Geography associated to demographic processes(J. A. Aldrey), the territorial configuration, the concept of border and humanterritoriality (R. C. Lois and X. Santos), the cultural transformation of societies, thespatial context and the arising of a new scientific episthemology in the postmodernity(X. Constenla), the conflict of the industrial sector in Galicia (A. Miramontesand L. Ulloa), and also the problems associated to the fishing sector (analyzed byseveral authors).In this aim, the constant invitation to non Geography-linked people enriches thedebates. We want to build Galician Geography, without closing our ears to experienceswhich can be useful for us. In order to do this, we invited to participate in ourproject -in the journal but also in the activities- to professors and professionals fromCatalunya, the Balearic Islands, the Basque Country or Madrid, but also to peopleworking in Brazil, Paraguay, Japan and Europe (Bulgaria, Germany, the Netherlands,Ireland or Portugal).We don´t want to lose our identity and ideology, nor our language or culture. Thisis the reason that our activities run in Galician language and we renounce –to haveclear ideas and clean hands- institutional economic help. We opted from the beginningfor self-management.It is important to say that ABALAR does not have associated people. There arenot ecomomic fees nor hierarchies: ABALAR has horizontal structures, where auniversitary professor has the same category as an unemployed person. Somebodypublishing something in the journal, somebody participating in our activities, butalso somebody taking part in them is counted as a member of the Project.124