Third World Quarterly (TWQ) is opening new avenues of scholarship in short form with the introduction of Research Notes (see also TWQ Instructions for Authors section). Research Notes are shorter, peer-reviewed pieces designed to create, encourage or develop cutting-edge contributions to issues relevant to the journal’s aims and scope. They can be empirical, methodological and/or theoretical. Research Notes are expected to present new contributions to Global South studies based on smaller or ongoing research projects that offer new empirical insights, methodological advances, experiments or alternative theories.
Research Notes must be positioned in relation to relevant contemporary academic scholarship. However, Research Notes can also propose, explore, disseminate or explain concepts, ideas, frameworks, methodologies and theories that make scholarship more inclusive of the complexity of global politics beyond the dominant languages of disciplinary knowledge production.
Research Notes offer authors an outlet for:
- New contributions about topics or events in their regions and their broader implications for disciplines, other regions, historical trends and/or global politics.
- New theories, topics, methods and/or methodologies.
- Innovative interventions in existing debates concerning professional practices, knowledge production, fieldwork or ethos.
- New meanings, conceptualisations or ideas that expand the scope of disciplinary spaces, conversations and dialogues.
Research Notes should be 3,000 – 5,000 words in length (including references and footnotes) with an abstract of 150 words. They are subject to external peer review by one reviewer and strict editorial oversight by the editor. Authors should select Note as the article type on submission.
List of Published Research Notes
- Nagheeby, M., Mdee, A., Amezaga, J., Heller, L., Nicol, A., Pena-Varon, M. R., … Figueroa-Benítez, A. (2026). Escaping the Capitalist Black Hole: dethroning Mammon and liberating water. Third World Quarterly, 47(3), 614–628.
- Grasland, C. (2026). The diffusion of the concept of ‘the Global South’ in the press: the case of Africa. Third World Quarterly, 47(4), 834–848.
- Jiang, M. (2026). China and South America in the Antarctic: divergent motivations and diplomatic alignment. Third World Quarterly, 47(4), 849–859.
- Čerkez, T., & Silan, W. (2026). Prolegomena for technodiversity: on data and indigeneity. Third World Quarterly, 47(3), 641–652.
- Querejazu, A. (2026). Pluriversality as methodology. Third World Quarterly, 47(3), 629–640.
- Westfaul, E. (2026). More-than-human mediation in land protection: prayer as analytic. Third World Quarterly, 47(5), 1057–1064.
- Abimbola, D. W. (2026). Balancing dependency and autonomy in Nigeria’s diplomatic responses to the Russia–Ukraine conflict. Third World Quarterly, 1–11.
- Ojewale, O. (2026). Operationalising the Liptako-Gourma charter: Alliance des États du Sahel Unified Force, sovereignty imaginaries and the (re)making of security order in Central Sahel. Third World Quarterly, 1–13.
- Kumar, K. K. (2026). The truth behind tariff threats: unpacking the economic and strategic fallout of the 2025 US–India dispute. Third World Quarterly, 1–11.
- Jaya, D. J., Rahmadi, W., Sudira, P., Raharjo, N. E., & Lamri. (2026). When wage work fails: survival entrepreneurship and the reordering of construction labour in Indonesia. Third World Quarterly, 1–15.
- Mallett, R. (2026). The price of becoming your own boss: insights from Kampala’s financially included moto-taxis. Third World Quarterly, 1–12.
- Diab, O. (2026). The monetary dimension of ecological damage in the Global South. Third World Quarterly, 1–12.
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