Global South Studies Media: Blogs, Podcasts, Newsletters and Magazines

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Below are some links to podcasts, magazines and blogs that platform voices from the Global South and focus on topics that are relevant to the region.

If you have a media resource that you would like added to the list, please do let us know at [email protected].

Podcasts

AfterWords Podcast

Exploring the stories behind groundbreaking books. From colonialism and genocide to mysterious deaths and Brexit Britain, listen for lively discussions between authors and journalists.

Critical South 

Critical South unpacks political theory in the context of the global south, to help people understand the political developments, ideas, events and issues of the day.

Development Economics

A blog that takes critical and pluralist approach to the field of Development Economics.

Radicals in Coversation

A monthly podcast from Pluto Press. Each episode teh podcasts features a leading campaigners, authors and academics and brings in-depth conversations and radical perspectives on the issues that matter the most.

SciDev

A specialist media role outlet bringing the worlds of science and development together through news and analysis from across the globe.

Sound of the Global South 

A podcast specialised in the Global South related current issues – Jindal Centre for the Global South 

The China-Global South Podcast 

A weekly discussion on Chinese engagement in the developing world from the news team of The China-Global South Project (CGSP). 

Blogs

Africa Is a Country

Africa Is a Country offers a critical perspective on various social, political, and cultural issues affecting Africa that push back on continental legacies of colonialism and exploitation. 

CLACS Blog

The blog from the Centre for Latin American & Caribbean Studies (CLACS). CLACS curates the Latin American and Caribbean Diaries blog (formerly the Latin American Diaries), which was launched by the Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS) in 2014.

CRASSH Blog

This is Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH)  in Cambridge blog

The GENDER.ED hub blog 

Hosted by the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CAHSS) at the University of Edinburgh and beyond.

Gender and its Discontents Blog

Published by the Gender and Sexualities Studies Institute at the New School and feature selections of the exciting research completed by students in our graduate core course “Gender and its Discontents”, faculty and students opinion pieces, and material on past and forthcoming events.

The LAA Blog

The blog of the Latin American Association.

LSE Latin American and Caribbean

This blog provides expert analysis of the region’s politics, economics and societies.

The Loop

The European Consortium For Political Research’s Political Science Blog, which publishes short pieces on politics, policy programmes, societal and political issues.

The Global South Initiative (Blog)

A student-led initiative from the University of Warwick connecting researchers from the Global South and resisting our invisibility in academia.

MMB Latin America

A blog series on migration and mobilities in Latin America, with contributions from scholars and activists in the region as well from the University of Bristol. 

ROAPE Blog

Review of African Political Economy’s blog hosts short articles to highlight developments on the continent and comment on the dynamics of protest, shifting patterns of political economy and issues of historical concern for the journal.

The SAYAS blog

This site celebrates the process of science — from the perspective of young people in the midst of their postgraduate studies. It is one of the projects led by the South African Young Academy of Science.