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Exploring Global South Literary Studies Journal’s New Special Issues
How can literature help us better understand the political, cultural, and historical realities of the Global South? The Global South Literary Studies (GSLS) journal, published by Taylor and Francis, launched in 2025. This exciting new space allows scholars, writers, and thinkers to examine the literary and cultural expressions emerging from the Global South with the…
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Episode Three: Preserving Indigenous Knowledge and Data Sovereignty with Maria Alvarez Malvido
Decolonising Access Podcast: Episode Three “There’s a common goal of taking care of the land and mapping the knowledge that already exists in the collective memory of the community.” – María Alvarez Malvido Preserving Indigenous Knowledge and Data Sovereign | RSS.com In this episode, Bethlehem Attfield talks to Maria Alvarez Malvido about her experience researching…
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The Life and Legacy of Kassahun Checole: Champion of African Publishing
What does it take to disrupt Western dominance in publishing? Kassahun Checole founded Africa World Press in the 1980s, a Pan-African publishing house built on resistance, solidarity and belief in African voices. In this interview, Kassahun reflects on his upbringing in Eritrea, the power of independent publishing, the fight for intellectual sovereignty and reclaiming knowledge…
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When Radio Sounds Like Home: Indigenous Community Radio and Epistemic Justice in India
In this blog, Aniruddha Jena reflects on his recent research published in Third World Quarterly on Indigenous community radio in India. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork at Radio Dhimsa in India’s Odisha, he explores how community radio can function as a space of epistemic justice, sustaining Indigenous language, cultural memory, and knowledge systems in the face…
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Leora Eisenberg: Hear from the Winner of the Irene Hilgers Memorial Prize 2026
Every year, Central Asian Survey awards The Irene Hilgers Memorial Prize to a junior scholar, who has published an outstanding article in the journal volume from the preceding calendar year. This year’s award recipient is Leora Eisenberg, a PhD student who is studying Central Asian Soviet history at Harvard University, for her article ‘I became an Uzbek’: Jewish-Uzbek encounters in…
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Peace, Politics, and Publishing in the Global South with Morten Bøås
From protesting apartheid in Oslo to conducting fieldwork in Liberia, Uganda, and the Sahel, Morten Bøås’ (Research Professor at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, Norway) journey into peace and conflict studies is anything but conventional. In this Q&A with Purniya Awan, he reflects on personal moments, global struggles, and editorial insights that shaped his career and his…
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The Politics of Care: The Pot Lid of Resistance in Colombia’s Street Cooking
What does it mean to care in contexts shaped by uncertainty? In this piece, three scholars (Ana María Cruz, Viviana García Pinzón and Jan Grill) based in Colombia and Germany reflect on the complexities and contradictions of care and care work, and the political implications and potential of caring in contexts of protests, violence, and marginalisation.…
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How Gen Z Are Challenging Traditional Power Structures in Africa
From Kenya to Madagascar and Morocco, young people are using decentralised, tech-driven movements to transform protest into political power. In this blog post, Stellah Muthee, a conflict monitoring analyst based in South Africa shares insights from her work monitoring conflicts across the continent. “These movements reflect a shared global moment, marked by the declining trust…
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Jittip Mongkolnchaiarunya Wins the 2026 Edward Said Award
Jittip Mongkolnchaiarunya, a PhD student at George Washington University, has been awarded the 2026 Edward Said Award for her paper “Epistemic Exclusion in Climate Science: Why We Grow the Wrong Trees in the Wrong Places.” Presented by the Global Development Studies (GDS) at the International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Convention, the Edward Said Award recognises…
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The Rise of Right-Wing Populism: From Brazil to Türkiye
Right-wing populist leaders often sound similar on the campaign trail using anti-elite rhetoric. Yet, once in power, their trajectories in office can diverge sharply. By comparingTürkiye under Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Brazil under Jair Bolsonaro, this blog piece (based on a 2025 Third World Quarterly article) by Gülşen Doğan argues that their durability depends less on their charisma…
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The Global Souths Hub Best Contribution Prize Returns
Now in its second year, the Global Souths Hub Best Contribution Prize returns to celebrate bold and insightful work that enriches the field of Global South Studies. About the Prize The initiative builds on the success of last year’s award, which recognised Ginbert Permejo Cuaton as the Best Contribution for his blog piece on Exploring Resettlement…
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