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Confronting Epistemic Erasures – A TWQ Special Issue on Decolonising Knowledge, Fostering Resistance and Building Alternatives
This Third World Quarterly (TWQ) Special Issue (SI) explores the phenomenon of Epistemic Erasure as the process through which the knowledge systems of marginalized communities are rendered invisible, and how these processes are being resisted. Read the full Special Issue (Understanding Epistemic Erasures: Decolonising Research, Fostering Resistances and Reimagining Alternative Partnerships, Third World Quarterly, Vol 46). Recent…
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Global IR’s Unfinished Revolution: Empire of Theory, Periphery of Practice
In this blog post, Senior Researcher at the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA), Gustavo de Carvalho, interrogates the deep contradictions within International Relations today, where hegemonic powers both uphold and undermine global institutions. In March 2025, I attended my first International Studies Association (ISA) conference in Chicago. As a Brazilian researcher based in…
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Exploring the Pluto Journals Collection with Eve Kanram
Pluto Journals publishes an international range of Open Access, radical, scholarly journals that are at the cutting edge of Social Science research. Explore a bespoke selection put together by Pluto Journals Manager, Eve Kanram. I’m Eve Kanram, Journals Manager at Pluto Journals, where I support 20 of our social science journals. I am also the…
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How does Dependency Theory intersect with Feminist Economics?
A blog post by Bélén Villegas Plá Bélén is a researcher and lecturer at the Universidad de la República in Montevideo, Uruguay. Her research focuses on political economy and inequality in peripheral contexts with a focus on Latin America. In a recent paper ‘Dependency theory meets feminist economics: a research agenda’ in Third World Quarterly,…
