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Language & Peoples

Forest and faith in Mentawai

How Indigenous life and spirituality remain bound to forests undergoing ecological and political pressure in Indonesia’s Mentawai Islands
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Young Slovaks abroad navigate opportunity and belonging

How work, language and identity shape life abroad for young Slovaks
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The truth behind Korea’s “voluntary ghetto”

Incheon’s Chinatown looks like just a fun day out – but a culture researcher sees a darker story
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The yellow secret of Georgian chicken

How unregulated synthetic additives are used to artificially yellow chickens in Georgia
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Where Kurdish cinema finds a home

How film-making and film festivals in Europe have become an engine and a focal point for Kurdish identity and solidarity
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Own goal in Tunis

A searing investigation into the (mis) management of Tunisian football
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The ever-changing faces of teenagers in Rukla

How unaccompanied minor migrants navigate war, displacement, and uncertain futures in Lithuania
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Marijuana in Paraguay

How an illegal plant has acquired meaning as medicine, income, and a symbol of civil disobedience
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How the right’s obsession with the maranza was born

How a once-playful slang term became Italy’s newest racialised public enemy
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The invisible borderland

Fifty years after a treaty to draw the border between Italy and Yugoslavia, a local newspaper investigates
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When memory is resistance

A daughter remembers her father's disappearance
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Belfast: The politics of bilingual signs in Northern Ireland’s capital

In a fiercely divided city, language remains a bitter sectarian battleground
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