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Street Talks

Kingston: Who owns carnival in Jamaica?

Women may be taking centre stage, but behind the scenes lies deep-set gender inequality
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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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Dublin: The quiet revival of Irish on the streets of the city

Returning home, a Dubliner abroad reconnects with the Irish language
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Jakarta: The price of belonging in Indonesia’s restless city

In a city where nothing is free, residents daily reckon with the cost of grief
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Hanoi: The scent of memory in Vietnam’s river-nested capital

Mapping the city and treasured memories through its smells
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Guadalajara: The shifting heartbeat of Mexico’s neighborhoods

In Santa Tere, gentrification looms threatening one of the city's last traditional neighbourhoods
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Yakutsk: Soft communal resistance between talks, ghosts and fake Labubus

The frost arrived early, foreshadowing the quiet end to public education. Resistance here isn't shouted; it's whispered through counterfeit Labubu toys and the wry irony of survivalist memes.
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Medellin: The politics of street art in Colombia’s second city

On a Medellín highway, a crass political banner exposes a fierce, ongoing visual war where spray-painted walls fight to memorialize the city's recently unearthed mass graves.
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N’Djamena: Searching for gas in the Chadian capital

An ecological ban on firewood has ignited a desperate daily pilgrimage. When cooking a warm meal requires scouring the city for scarce butane, survival hangs in the balance.
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Mbabane: A cow for a king in Eswatini

As the time for the annual emaSwati ritual approaches one resident questions whether this tradition is merely a spectacle or a tool for the political elite
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