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The Importance of Solidarity on World Humanitarian Day
World Humanitarian Day (WHD), observed annually on the 19th August, serves as a powerful reminder of the global commitment to alleviating human suffering and upholding human dignity in the face of crises. It is a campaign by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). This year’s theme #ActforHumanity aims to confront…
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Understanding and Combating Human and Child Trafficking
The right to live a life of dignity and safety is enshrined in international human rights principles. Human trafficking represents a profound violation of human rights, particularly affecting girls and vulnerable individuals. This abhorrent practice denies victims their basic freedoms and subjects them to forced labour, sexual exploitation, and abuse. This blog will shed light…
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World Refugee Day 2024: Standing in Solidarity with Refugees Worldwide
Photo of a building in Madrid, Spain (Source: Unsplash, Maria Teneva) World Refugee Day, observed on June 20th every year, “celebrates the strength and courage of people who have been forced to flee their home country to escape conflict or persecution,” (UNHCR). It’s a day to recognise the courage, resilience and contributions of refugees and…
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Global Souths Hub and TWQ are looking forward to BISA 2024
The Global Souths Hub and Third World Quarterly (TWQ) team are pleased to be attending the 2024 BISA (British International Studies Association) conference today. Come and find us in the exhibition hall tomorrow. Spread out over the next three days, there will be more than 325 panels and roundtables and a number of networking and…
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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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Political healing in East Asian International Relations: A TWQ Special Issue
Hear from Special Issue guest editors Ching-Chang Chen and Astrid H.M. Nordin. The Third World Quarterly Special Issue ‘Political healing in East Asian International Relations’ (Volume 45, Issue 6) invites academics and practitioners of international relations to rethink and transform, not merely observe and contain, long-standing conflicts in East Asia as illness of a shared communal…
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Media and the Environment: Journalism Confronting the Environmental Crisis
World Press Freedom Day is observed annually on May 3rd to raise awareness about the importance of press freedom and to defend the media from attacks on their independence. The 31st edition of World Press Freedom Day in 2024 hosted by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) in Santiago, Chile, will mark another…
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Launching the Kassahun Checole Prize for Early Career Researchers in African Studies
Third World Quarterly (TWQ) are delighted to announce the launch of Kassahun Checole Prize for the best and most innovative article submitted by an Early Career Researcher (ECR) in the field of African Studies. Both African writers and all those writing on African topics are encouraged to enter the prize. Submissions are now open! Submissions are…
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Decolonising Economics with Ingrid Kvangraven
Ingrid Kvangraven, a Lecturer in International Development at King’s College London, joined TWQ as an Academic Editor in 2022. Her research is broadly concerned with the role of finance in development, debates about uneven development, dependency and imperialism, and critically assessing the economics field itself from an anti-colonial perspective. She is the founder and editor…
