Welcome to our news site, where we disseminate information and stories from leading thinkers in Global South Studies, as well as complementary content from both TWQ and CAS journals.
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Seven Steps for Crafting a Compelling Academic Book Review
In this blog post, Central Asian Survey Book Review Editor, Philipp Lottholz discusses the importance of academic book reviews and shares his top tips on how to write a compelling and critical book review. Why write a book review? Reviewing another person’s work is something that others will really value and may lead to a…
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Living in Limbo – Platforming Refugee Stories
Poet, editor, performer and educator, Laila Sumpton, works on creative writing projects that explore human rights issues. In this blog written by Laila, she focuses on the poetry and photography project, “You can see me, but I don’t exist” which looked at the neglected rights of refugees who are living in limbo in the UK.…
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Why Palestine is a Feminist Issue
At this year’s BISA (British International Studies Association) conference a crowd gathered in The International Convention Centre to listen to Hala Shoman (Newcastle University), Maryam Aldossari (Royal Holloway, University of London), Ashjan Ajour (University of Wolverhampton), Nicola Pratt (University of Warwick), Sara Ababneh (University of Sheffield) and chair Jemima Repo (Newcastle University) discuss why Palestine…
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Top Publishing Tips for Early Career Researchers with Central Asian Survey Editor, Rico Isaacs
Rico Isaacs, Professor of International Politics at the University of Lincoln, regularly read and cited Central Asian Survey (CAS) during his PhD. Sixteen years later, he is now the Editor of the journal. In our second interview with Rico (as part of our ‘Meet the Editors’ series), we ask his advice on how to get…
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Queer Has Always Been Here – A Reading List
This Pride month, we are highlighting a selection of books and articles that focus on the long history of queer communities within the Global South. Queerness is often portrayed as a modern western identity without much reference to how colonialism controlled and repressed indigenous queer communities. This reading list aims to challenge Eurocentric perceptions of…
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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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Mirlan Bektursunov wins 2024’s Irene Hilgers Memorial Prize
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 Dr Mirlan Bektursunov, for his article ‘Two parts – one whole’? Kazakh–Kyrgyz relations in the making of Soviet Kyrgyzstan, 1917–24.…
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Africa Day 2024: Empowering African Minds
Purniya Awan is a Contributing Editor at the Global Souths Hub. Her areas of interest are gender, law and development in the Global South. This blog post aims to highlight the history of Africa Day, the significance of celebrating the day and how quality education across the African continent can produce scholars fit for the…
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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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