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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Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni: Why Decolonisation Matters More Than Ever
Decolonisation, says Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni (University of Calgary in Canada), is not a slogan but an ongoing unfinished struggle rooted in centuries of resistance. In this interview with Zara Qadir for the Global Souths Hub, Sabelo calls for “ecologies of knowledges” that move beyond silos of disciplines in Western universities to embrace knowledges from the…
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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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Reconceptualising Activism Space in Contemporary Global South – a TWQ Special Issue
This Third World Quarterly (TWQ) special issue reconceptualises activism in the Global South as spatially hybrid, affectively/ emotionally charged, and a source of epistemic innovation and new ideas. Read the full Special Issue (Reconceptualising Activism Space in Contemporary Global South, Third World Quarterly, Vol 46). Drawing on contributions from research in India, South Africa, Palestine,…
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June Bam-Hutchison on the Loss of Indigenous Knowledge and Linguistic Heritage
In our latest Q&A Bethlehem Attfield talks to University of Johannesburg‘s Centre for Education Rights and Transformation Director June Bam-Hutchison. June stresses the importance of addressing interpretive injustices that often marginalise the basic early archiving of human interactions. As a member of the Khoi-San Ausi, she also points to Indigenous knowledge gaps within education and research,…
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Conference Spotlight & Free-to-view Articles: Legitimacy in Conflict and Peace
Conflict Research Society (CRS) 2025 Annual Conference, themed “Legitimacy in Conflict and Peace,” took place, from the 17th to 19th of September, at the University of Kent, Canterbury. The Global Souths Hub team, Third World Quarterly (TWQ) and Conflict, Security and Development journals are making ten articles free to view until the 31st of October 2025…
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When the Intestines Speak: Indigenous Climate Forecasting in the Horn of Africa
My name is George Tsitati, and I’m a PhD candidate at the University of Edinburgh. My research focuses on how pastoralist communities in the Horn of Africa use early warning systems and weather information to respond to climate-induced humanitarian shocks. I focus on how these community-developed interventions either converge, differ, or run in parallel to…
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Singing Bhakti: The Story Behind Heli
In this Q&A Poshali Goel, a filmmaker and editor with a background in design based in Delhi, India, talks about her film Heli, which follows the lives of two siblings whose love for singing carries Bhakti poetry into both public and private worlds. Made as part of her master’s thesis, Heli explores gender dynamics and…
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Reclaiming Our Voices: The Somali Gender Hub
Sahra Ahmed Koshin is a Somali and Dutch anthropologist, development worker, poet, and founder of the Somali Gender Hub, a network dedicated to empowering Somali women in research and academia. Now completing her PhD on Somali Diaspora Humanitarianism, she tells the inspiring journey behind setting up the Somali Gender Hub. Why I First Fell in…
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