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[Review] Cosmopolitanism: Universality Plus Difference
Let’s take female genital cutting (or female genital mutilation or female circumcision depending on your bias) as an example. Amnesty International estimates that over 130 million women worldwide have undergone some form of female genital cutting, with over 2...Interview with Gabriela Golder
Over at 80+1 I just published my interview with Gabriela Golder of the Arrorró project to document and analyze as many lullabies from around the world as possible. Head on over and you can watch both Georgia and me singing lullabies. Here’s a teaser: I...Miguel Esquirol's Thoughts on Global Voices
On the one hand, the very nature of a citizen media project like Global Voices enables every single participant to contribute ideas to improve the project. All they have to do – as Bolivian volunteer translator Miguel Esquirol did earlier this week – is...
Social Translation and Fan Culture
At around 30,000 feet somewhere between San Francisco and Boston I was holding back tears. Okuribito is one of the most beautiful, haunting movies I’ve ever seen. Don’t ask me where I heard about it. Might have been Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, or just...![[Review] Istanbul: Memories and the City](https://i0.wp.com/farm1.static.flickr.com/76/181355580_1c0dabec7e.jpg?w=425)
[Review] Istanbul: Memories and the City
No matter how ill-kept, no matter how neglected or hemmed in they are by concrete monstrosities, the great mosques and other monuments of the city, as well as the lesser detritus of empire in every side street and corner – the little arches, fountains, and...[Interview] Lokman Tsui
I first saw Lokman Tsui in 2006 at a conference on the “Hyperlinked Society” at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenburg School for Communication, where he is a graduate student studying the internet’s impact on society. We also had the...
Global Voices Book Challenge: An April Vacation from Infosnacking
What were once 5,000-word essays have been distilled down into 500-word blog posts, which in turn are compacted into pithy statements of 140 characters. What can be said in 140 characters? This sentence, for instance, is exactly 140 characters long, which you can see,...
Glimpse.org, Travel Writing, and Onbehalfism
When I travel to a foreign country I want to meet local people, taste local food, listen to local music, and read the local newspapers. When I meet people in another country from a different culture who speak a different language then – over time – I begin...
Global Voices House Party
There are many ways to get know another culture. My favorite? The house party. Even the seemingly most conservative of cultures transform into festive affairs of dance, drink, and drums when a house party is declared. There is something irresistibly human about...Latest Photos
