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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Global Day of Action for Climate Justice: Our Reading List
In the run up to Global Day of Action for Climate Justice and as global leaders gather at COP30 in Belém, Brazil (10–21 November 2025), we are reminded that climate justice extends beyond environmental protection, it is also about the fight for equity, dignity, and the right to a future. In this spirit, three of…
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The Role of Edible Forest Foods in Vietnam’s Food Security
In this blog post, Kien Dang, Programme Coordinator of the Land Use Policy Analysis for Poverty Alleviation (LUPAPA) under Livelihood Sovereignty Alliance (LISO), explores food security in Vietnam. She shares her experiences of working with the local Dao Indigenous people to learn about local varieties of edible forest foods, and highlights what we can learn from…
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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 and 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…
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Running Towards Peace, as it Seems to Be Getting Distant
I’m Deniz Ataman, an MA student in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Kent, UK. As part of my internship, I helped organise the Conflict Research Society (CRS) Conference in September 2025. In this post, I share my experiences from the conference and insights from interviews with both a peace practitioner and an…
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From Crisis to Hope – Insights from African Studies Association of Africa Conference
In this piece Bethlehem Attfield shares her experiences attending the African Studies Association of Africa Conference (ASAA) which took place in September of 2025. The first time I attended and presented at an international African Studies conference was last year, at the University of Oxford’s Brookes campus. Hearing leading African voices discuss various issues affecting the…
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Confronting Epistemic Erasures – A TWQ Special Issue on Decolonising Knowledge, Fostering Resistance and Building Alternatives
This Third World Quarterly (TWQ) Special Issue (SI) explores the phenomenon of Epistemic Erasure as the process through which the knowledge systems of marginalized communities are rendered invisible, and how these processes are being resisted. Read the full Special Issue (Understanding Epistemic Erasures: Decolonising Research, Fostering Resistances and Reimagining Alternative Partnerships, Third World Quarterly, Vol 46). Recent…
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Guardians of the Golden Stool: Côte d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso, and Niger’s Struggle for True Independence
Kividi Koralage, a scholar of international relations and development, examines in this blog how Côte d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso, and Niger are redefining their paths away from France’s influence, marking a pivotal moment in Africa’s pursuit of true sovereignty. Solidarity rally in Accra, Ghana on April 30. Photo: SMG, sourced from the People’s Dispatch. The Golden…
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World Food Day: Highlighting Global Food Insecurity
Purniya Awan, explores the complex intersections of food, famine, and malnutrition with a particular focus on how food is weaponised in conflict zones like Gaza. In this blog post for World Food Day, she unpacks the systemic drivers of hunger and shares a list of free-to-view Third World Quarterly (TWQ) and Central Asian Survey articles…
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Researching Extremism & Counterterrorism: A PhD Scholar’s Reflections on Self-Care
What does it mean to study nationalism, migration, and “counterterrorism” online when you are not a distant observer but part of the very community under scrutiny? Mohammad Siddiqui is a PhD student in Political Science, reflects on the experience of studying the current, politically sensitive issues in the US and India as a scholar embedded…
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The Criminalisation of Palestine Solidarity
In this piece, Mira Mookerjee, Editor and Website Curator at the Global Souths Hub, documents the discussions that took place at this year’s European International Studies Association (EISA) and examines the link between the criminalisation of Palestine solidarity and the global rise of fascism. International Rela_[404 Not Found]: Politics for a Broken World was the…
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If It’s Not in English, It’s Not There
Noha Atef is a media scholar from Egypt, who is currently based at the University of Galway in Ireland. Her native language is Arabic. She began her academic journey in England and has worked at universities and research institutions in English-speaking countries. Although her research focuses on the Arab region—where she engages directly with participants…
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