By Freisy González
An ethnographic look at Venezuela's María Lionza cult, examining how LGBTQ+ mediums challenge traditional gender roles and face discrimination while channeling diverse spiritual entities
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By Hali Healy, Research Fellow in the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham
In South Africa, a remote coastal community has used counter-maps to document wetlands and sacred sites, showing what mining and a toll road threaten to destroy.
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By Chikezie E. Uzuegbunam, Senior Lecturer in Media and Digital Studies and Deputy Head of School, Rhodes University
Chinedu Richard Ononiwu, Lecturer, Department of Broadcasting, Nnamdi Azikiwe University
Masaki Magack, Teaching Associate in Communication, Culture & Media Studies, Howard University
Many fact-checkers are moving away from declaring claims as true or false, and trying to help people judge information for themselves.
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By Jonathan Munemo, Professor of Economics, Salisbury University
Zimbabwe’s central bank wants people to use the ZiG, a gold-backed local currency launched in April 2024, alongside the US dollar. A proposed real-time payment system based on Indian technology could help make the ZiG easier and cheaper to use.
But digital payments will strengthen the currency only if people have good reasons to trust it.
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe is negotiating…
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By Daria Dergacheva
In the latest GV podcast, we discussed why Russia restricts access to many social media services, while Belarus does not impose comparable restrictions; censorship, surveillance, and digital authoritarianism — Belarusian style.
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By Fernanda Canofre
“Under normal conditions, this is already serious enough, because the platform rules over the information flow in a society, but when you apply it to an electoral dispute, it's even more serious.”
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By Liz Rosenberg, Professor of English, General Literature and Rhetoric, Binghamton University, State University of New York
A children’s literature author explains how some of her favorite Halloween-themed children’s books can help children prepare for the holiday ahead.
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By Mireille Rebeiz, Director of Dickinson Program in New Zealand, Dickinson College; University of Otago
In August, the UN Security Council voted to end the decades-long peacekeeping mission in Lebanon. Blue helmets will leave by the end of the year.
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By Emily Smith-Greenaway, Dean's Professor of Sociology and Professor of Spatial Sciences, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Ashton Verdery, Professor of Sociology, Demography and Social Data Analytics, Penn State
Halloween kicks off a series of religious and cultural festivals to honor the dead, including All Saints’ Day, All Souls’ Day and the Day of the Dead. But deceased loved ones don’t disappear from people’s social worlds once the ghost and skeleton decorations come down.
Present in memory and tradition, the dead can shape people’s identities and behaviors long after they die. Recent survey data shows that almost…
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Friday, October 23, 2026
The UN said on Friday it was “extremely alarmed” by intensifying violence in the occupied West Bank, as Israel moved to seal off the territory following a deadly attack on its soldiers in Hebron.
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