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by Austin Miller
44 weeks ago
Neoliberalism has reached the Southern Cone. Accompanying the privatization of public facilities, capital liquidation and de-regulation, socio-territorial changes have profoundly changed the layout and experience of the Argentine capital. These...
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by Evan Schwartz
44 weeks ago
Linh's younger brother, Kien, walks into the house with his red backpack slung over his shoulder and the signature white iPhone headphones running down from his ears. He dances slightly to the beats as he drops his bag lightly onto the floor and...
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by Rahel Dette
44 weeks ago
He is in his 60s, maybe 70s, he is short and he wears a yellow straw hat in a kind of cowboy-style, that is common in the south. We're on the same "louage" from the mountain village in the center of the country to the north-eastern capital, but we...
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by Nicholas Carter
44 weeks ago
Having been back from Colombia for a few months now, I am currently finishing up editing the footage for the documentary, a process that should be reaching an end relatively soon. In case you forgot, my project not only asks how public space (...
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by Maia Chao
44 weeks ago
I am now finally adjusting to time and planning as it exists here, and the consequential theme of waiting that seems to pervade the entire system. At first I thought that perhaps, as a foreigner, I was experiencing a particularly unfortunate and...
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by Rebecca Wolinsky ...
44 weeks ago
BRYTE CAMP: DAY 1
A semester of planning, two weeks of planning, and a week of training had gone by. Jesse and I were ready (we hoped) for BRYTE Camp 2012 to start. On...
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by Evan Schwartz
44 weeks ago
Last time, that English classroom really did feel like a prison cell (and I felt like the jailer). This time, it is a bit better. A couple from San Francisco (who are staying with Mike, the Couch Sufing guy) and I are teaching -- and we have the...
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by Valerie Bondura
44 weeks ago
I wasn't going to write about an interaction I had yesterday with a young Greek employee at a cell phone store, partly because this blog is supposed to reflect my archaeological research, not my social experiences, and also partly because the...
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by Carolina Barry Laso
44 weeks ago
On Wednesday I joined another manager from the program I work in, Territories of Peace, and her assistant to accompany their work in a community of the north area of Rio de Janeiro. There is a great difference between the “zones” in which locals...
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by Nazli Ozerdem and...
44 weeks ago
From Akureyri we were able to take a day trip to Lake Mývatn and the surounding area defined by its volcanic activity. On the way though, we stopped at Godafoss, one of many "fosses" in Iceland but really a very stunning place. Godafoss means...
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by Rebecca Wolinsky ...
44 weeks ago
Training was a whirlwind. 8 full time staff. 10 part time staff. 3 high school aged teens. 5 days. Each day began with an ice breaker. Our favorite quickly became “peel banana peel peel banana. And then go bananas go go bananas”—a wild activity...
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by Annie Brown
44 weeks ago
Two weeks after the first seed plantings, we are seeing the first signs of green, the first signs of growth. The pipian and ayote, both types of squash, are already leafy and fat. The tomato clusters are crowded with pointy green leaves, asking to...
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by Nazli Ozerdem and...
44 weeks ago
We took a road trip to the North and planned to visit Akureyri, Dalvik and Siglufjörður. On our way to Akureyri, we stopped to visit the Atlantic Leather Factory. We had heard that we could learn about the production of the fish skin used by...
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by Linh Dao
45 weeks ago
“Dear __,
Since you left, the Creative Kid Project has grown much bigger than we could ever expect. We wish you could help us like you did in the beginning, or at least be here to witness what it has become. From a tiny team at first,...
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by Valerie Bondura
45 weeks ago
One of the biggest obstacles to researching the Romá is that there are more names for them than seems possible. Just when I think I have finally completed an exhaustive list of nouns that refer to the Romá, I come across just one more. It never ends...
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by Maia Chao
45 weeks ago
Above is a short compilation of some footage I recorded from the Mayan ceremony for the documentary about indigenous community radio that I will be filming throughout my time here.
The night I arrived in Guatemala I prepared my camera bag, took a...
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by Valerie Bondura
45 weeks ago
I haven't written yet, because I truly haven't known where to begin. That, and I tend to get distracted reading about all of the other amazing things people are doing whenever I log on to the Global Conversations website...
I have been in Greece...
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by Nathan Einstein
45 weeks ago
Falling into the rhythm of daily life here, I’m beginning to get a sense of the roles that the private sector (including informal networks of citizens) plays—going the next step beyond obtusely identifying areas that the government has and hasn’t...
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by Carolina Barry Laso
45 weeks ago
One of the aspects that I enjoy the most about this job is that I get to work on all the stages of the process, and thus I am able to see how the reintegration of this territories works from the two sides of the equation: from the point of view of...
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by Sofia Quesada
45 weeks ago
I visited Antigua, Guatemala once during High School. I participated in a volleyball tournament and at some point the team was taken in a van to Antigua, where we were granted a closely-timed hour to shop at the local artisanal market before being...
