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  • A New TWQ Special Issue: Design Emergencies in Aid and Development

    A New TWQ Special Issue: Design Emergencies in Aid and Development

    This Special Issue collection of articles in Third World Quarterly, titled Design Emergencies: Interrogating Innovation in Humanitarian Aid and International Development (Vol 47, 2026), investigates the growing trend since the 1960s of using ‘design’ and ‘design thinking’ to solve urgent global problems. As the world faces intersecting ecological, political and social emergencies, humanitarian aid and…

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    • When the Smoke Clears: Youth, Justice and Global South Leadership at COP30

      When the Smoke Clears: Youth, Justice and Global South Leadership at COP30

      Helena Aida Voorhuis, a Burkinabe and Dutch youth representative, is a master’s student in Engineering and Policy Analysis at TU Delft. She attended the 30th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP30) in Belém do Pará, Brazil as a youth delegate with Save the Children Netherlands, and as a representative of the Local Conference…


    • Human Rights in Action: The Small Things That Shape Our World

      Human Rights in Action: The Small Things That Shape Our World

      Each year on the 10th of December, we mark Human Rights Day, a moment to reflect on our shared humanity and the enduring principles that unite us. The day commemorates the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in 1948, a pioneering document that affirmed, for the first time globally, the inalienable rights each…


    • Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni: Why Decolonisation Matters More Than Ever

      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…


    • Punk in the Global South: A Reading and Resource List

      Punk in the Global South: A Reading and Resource List

      When we think of punk, we often relate it to an era of music and fashion – but punk is, and has always been, political. Punk politics are defined as being anti-establishment and anti-authoritarian, fighting for individual freedom, and rejecting mainstream corporate culture. Punk politics have made waves globally, throughout the Global North and Global…


    • A New TWQ Special Issue: Multilateralism and Global Institutions in a Fragmented World

      A New TWQ Special Issue: Multilateralism and Global Institutions in a Fragmented World

      Multilateralism and the international institutions that have long sustained it—face a deep and multi-layered crisis. While this predicament is widely recognised in International Relations scholarship, existing debates have yet to fully engage with how fragmentation impacts different types of international institutions across geographical and functional domains, particularly through the lens of Global North–Global South dynamics.…


    • Beyond Aid Dependency: Building Scientific Sovereignty in the Global South

      Beyond Aid Dependency: Building Scientific Sovereignty in the Global South

      In this blog post, Joshua Sarpong, higher education researcher, and Bezawit Alamirew Wube, STEM education specialist based at the University of Auckland, explore how countries in the Global South can move beyond aid dependency to build their own scientific and technological futures. Bezawit and I, Joshua, are researchers who have spent nearly a decade studying…


    • Global Day of Action for Climate Justice: Our  Reading List

      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…


    • The Role of Edible Forest Foods in Vietnam’s Food Security

      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…


    • Third World Radicals: A New SI from TWQ

      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, 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 with…


    • Running Towards Peace, as it Seems to be Getting Distant

      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…