Founding Editor and Chair of the Editorial Board of Third World Quarterly (TWQ)
About
Shahid Qadir is Founding Editor and Chair of the Editorial Board of Third World Quarterly (TWQ). He studied International Relations at the London School of Economics and the University of Southampton.
For over 45 years, since TWQ’s establishment in 1978, Shahid has expanded the journal into the leading scholarly journal on Third World/Global South studies covering the Postcolonial Worlds of Africa, Asia, Middle East and Latin America. With the fall of the Soviet Union, the Postsocialist Worlds of Central Asia and the Caucasus joined the regions of the world now commonly known as the Global Souths. In order to focus on the erstwhile Second World, Shahid took on the challenge to strengthen the academic standing of world’s premier learned journal, Central Asian Survey.
Shahid has been a lifelong advocate of disseminating Southern Epistemologies as part of the knowledge transfer agenda, striving for social justice issues and equity in South-North relations and encouraging critical and activist perspectives from the developing world into print (and now online in our digital age).
Shahid was the recipient of the 2014 Eminent Scholar Award from the Global Development Studies (ISA), as well as an Honorary Research Associate at Royal Holloway, University of London from 1991 to 2017. He also edits the ThirdWorlds Routledge Book Series, which has over 70 titles to date.
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