Identity

Contesting personal narratives

Peru’s far right is reviving decades-old terrorism narratives to undermine protests

The government has revived the practice of falsely accusing one’s political opponents of terrorism — harkening back to the days of the Shining Path guerilla insurgency

Mexican expats are trumpeting the ruling party's message and getting out the vote

Political ‘affinity groups’ aligned with Mexico’s ruling party are amplifying the voices of Mexican immigrants in the U.S. and helping them exercise their voting rights

Vita Dadoo

When India's right wing comes for interfaith marriage

‘Love jihad,’ a right-wing conspiracy theory, is putting the lives of Muslim-Hindu couples at risk

America’s culture warriors are going after librarians

Librarians across the country are under threat as efforts to ban books about marginalized groups reach a fever pitch

Erica Hellerstein

In Hungary, it’s Central Asia to the rescue

Turanism, an emerging movement once banned under communism, aims to revive Hungarian nationalism with a grand theory of Turkishness

When globalization was king and home was elsewhere

India was my external identity, Britain my interior one, and Kuwait was a metaphorical suburban bedroom where my fantasies played out.

Shougat Dasgupta

Ethnic violence, fear and alienation in Xinjiang

Before Uyghur writer Perhat Tursun was sentenced to 16 years in prison, he wrote a modernist masterpiece about life in China’s Muslim heartland

Bradley Jardine

Medieval history powers a crisis of identity in Lithuania and Belarus

Lithuania and Belarus were once part of a single, sprawling state. Now each neighbor resents the other for staking a claim to a shared history

Daiva Repečkaitė

Pro-Russian rallies sputter, but still rattle a nervous Germany

Fringe groups in Germany spreading Kremlin narratives are failing to catch on, but they underscore how the country’s extremism is changing as ideological divisions blur

Ukraine’s music reveals the past and points to the country’s future

Maria Sonevytsky, an ethnomusicology researcher, discusses how Ukraine’s rich musical traditions are bound to sovereignty and national identity

Mariam Kiparoidze

How Ukrainian writers have experienced the war in Ukraine

Kate Tsurkan, a Ukraine-based writer and translator, recommends Ukrainian-language authors who are influenced by their first-hand experience with conflict and war in Ukraine

Mariam Kiparoidze

Exploring the everyday lives of the people in eastern Ukraine

Ukrainian photographer Yevgenia Belorusets, writes fictional stories of people living under constant danger

Mariam Kiparoidze

A historian of the Soviet Union locates a rich and complicated Black experience

Slavic Studies scholar Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon tracks Soviet anti-racism to today

Turkish journalist arrested for tweet making fun of a 13th-century sultan

Pop stars, sex and communism: the story behind an East German youth magazine

Run by the state, Neues Leben sought to inspire a new generation of socialists

Josephine Hüetlin

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