culture

The Kiosk: with Scena9

The Kiosk is a new monthly feature from Translator where we profile a media outlet beyond the Anglosphere and invite them to curate a selection of three stories from their...

What’s left of Uyghur culture in Xinjiang?

The Chinese government has disappeared hundreds of Uyghur intellectuals since 2016, severing people from their land and history. Experts say this has created a “museumification” of Uyghur culture. Rahile Dawut is...

Forest and faith in Mentawai

How Indigenous life and spirituality remain bound to forests undergoing ecological and political pressure in Indonesia’s Mentawai Islands In this extensively reported feature for Ekuatorial, journalist Dewantoro documents the lives of...

Own goal in Tunis

A searing investigation into the (mis) management of Tunisian football On January 18 this year, Senegal won the African Cup of Nations in a 1-0 victory over Morocco in the...

Love and punishment in Karnataka and Bihar

Two honour-killings expose the price of loving across caste lines Written by Rachana and published by Khabar Lahariya, this report traces two recent cases of brutal violence that reveal how inter-caste...

When a city loses its name

Fifteen years after Masan, Jinhae and Changwon were merged into a single “megacity”, residents still grapple with the loss of their local identities and autonomy “Everything was taken away, even...

Danish dating gets the ick

In Denmark, the global Gen Z slang “ick” has entered everyday dating language, replacing old Danish words for disgust and reshaping how young people talk about attraction, revulsion, and the...

Workers of all nations, relax!

Аn essay explores how 20th-century socialism brought tourism to the masses in Eastern and Central Europe. Leisure tourism began as a bourgeois pastime. But over the late 19th and early...

Beats of conspiracy

French rapper Freeze Corleone embodies how conspiracy theories and recycled anti-Masonic tropes seep into youth culture through the underground rap scene. In his essay “Rap et anti-maçonnerie, étude d’un cas...

Curtains on risk: Italy’s public theatre faces cuts and conformity

Italy’s summer theatre season should be a celebration, but this year it’s overshadowed by cuts that punish risk and reward conformity. Graziano Graziani reveals how public theatre is being steered...

Walking with ancestors

How pilgrimage becomes an act of endurance and communal memory for the Nazareth Baptist Church in South Africa. Pilgrimage is one of the oldest expressions of faith across cultures. A...

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