The Kurds: A Stateless People, Turkey’s Enemies, or the Colonized Other?
Deniz Duruiz A Turkish soldier takes a selfie in the area of Mount Bersaya, north of the Syrian town of…
Ethnographic Explainers
What Can Acronyms Tell Us? Media Coverage and the Limits of Proxy War Analysis in Northeast Syria
Syrian Kurds march with a banner reading “We do not accept hostility and strangers on our land” during a demonstration…
Turkey’s Incursion into Northeast Syria: Authoritarianism Within and Beyond Borders
A man looks on as smoke rises from the Syrian town of Ras al-Ain, in a picture taken from the…
Dilution as Political Vitality: Hate Crime Legislation and Right-Wing Populism in India
By Pinky Hota Criticisms of hate crime laws routinely return to their inability to prevent hate crimes, bemoaning them as…
Tragedy and Resilience in Brazil’s Carnival 2019
By Thais Pavez and Camila Góes Unlike Europe and the rest of Latin America, Brazil’s Carnival developed uniformly and throughout…
Power to the People: Between Death and Insurrection in Nicaragua
Friends and relatives of late high school student Alvaro Conrado, the first underage demonstrator killed during anti-government protests on April…
Crisis in Venezuela
IMAGE AND CAPTION BY GETTY. Portraits depicting late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (L) and Cuban late leader Fidel Castro (R)…
On Digital Populism in Brazil
By Letícia Cesarino In October 2018, Brazilians relived the shock many experienced in the US two years earlier, when Donald…
Brazil Is Burning!
A fire burns at the National Museum of Brazil on September 2, 2018 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The museum,…
The FMLN’s Electoral Implosion in El Salvador: A Fiasco Foretold?
Supporters of the Great National Alliance (GANA) celebrate their candidate Nayib Bukele’s victory in the presidential elections in San Salvador…