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, anti-authoritarian, fighting for individual freedom, and rejecting mainstream corporate culture. Punk politics has made waves globally, throughout the Global North and Global South…

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.…

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…

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…