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At the Water’s Edge: Maya Epistemology, Resistance, and the Methodological Shoreline
Juan Tiney Chirix, a Maya Tz’utujil-Kaqchikel scholar and researcher of Indigenous methodologies and cartographies, presented at The Society of Latin American Studies (SLAS) conference 2025 in Bristol. In this blog post, Juan explores how Maya communities in Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala, maintain ancestral memory and territorial knowledge along the shifting shoreline of Lake Atitlán. He reflects…
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Unsettling Brazil: Power, Dependency and the Politics of Resistance
In this Q&A, Desirée Poets, an assistant professor of political science at Virgina Tech (USA) with a specialisation in Postcolonial Politics, reflects on positionality, collaborative research, and the role of art in social and political change. In her recent book, Unsettling Brazil, she shines a light on how Brazil’s history of dependent development and militarisation…
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Third World Radicals: A New SI from TWQ
This Third World Quarterly (TWQ) special issue, titled “Third World Radicals”, shows how activists and thinkers from Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa have swapped ideas, images and tactics from the 1950s to the present. The eight articles move beyond headline cases like Cuba and Algeria to uncover lesser-known stories: Kurdish experiments with…
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Lithium-ion Batteries and the Greenwashing of Extractivism
In this article, Global Souths Hub Editor and Website Curator Mira Mookerjee examines the sourcing process of minerals used in lithium-ion batteries – a technology that is allegedly moving us towards a greener future. By talking to activists and academics, including Nathan Andrews (Associate Professor, Political Science at McMaster University), Paulina Personius (Making Clean Energy…
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Navigating Academia from the Margins: An Afro-Latin Brazilian Woman’s Journey
Camila Andrade, a Research Fellow at the Institute for Pan-African Thought and Conversation (IPATC), University of Johannesburg, brings a blog post with a perspective shaped by the legacies of Blackness and womanhood – with echoes of her grandmother’s wisdom. With roots in Brazil and a deep commitment to the Global South, Camila’s early lessons in…
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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,…
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Punk, Politics, & Popular Culture in IR: An Interview with Matt Davies
Matt Davies is a Reader in International Political Economy at Newcastle University, UK, and one of the ten Academic Editors looking after Third World Quarterly. Matt also started the first MA in World Politics and Popular Culture, and has written on a wide range of subjects from theoretical critique of contemporary International Political Economy to…
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Getting to know Political Scientist Marianne H. Marchand
Best known for her academic writings and research on topics like international relations, globalisation, feminism and migration, Marianne H. Marchand is a scholar, political scientist, researcher and feminist who has pioneered the term “Global Restructuring” in the field of Gender and International Relations (IR). We connected with Marianne to learn more about her interests and…
