Third World Quarterly (TWQ) is opening new avenues of scholarship in short form with the introduction of Research Notes (see also TWQ Instructions for Authors section). Research Notes are shorter, peer-reviewed pieces designed to create, encourage or develop cutting-edge contributions to issues relevant to the journal’s aims and scope. They can be empirical, methodological and/or theoretical. Research Notes are expected to present new contributions to Global South studies based on smaller or ongoing research projects that offer new empirical insights, methodological advances, experiments or alternative theories.
Research Notes must be positioned in relation to relevant contemporary academic scholarship. However, Research Notes can also propose, explore, disseminate or explain concepts, ideas, frameworks, methodologies and theories that make scholarship more inclusive of the complexity of global politics beyond the dominant languages of disciplinary knowledge production.
Research Notes offer authors an outlet for:
- New contributions about topics or events in their regions and their broader implications for disciplines, other regions, historical trends and/or global politics.
- New theories, topics, methods and/or methodologies.
- Innovative interventions in existing debates concerning professional practices, knowledge production, fieldwork or ethos.
- New meanings,conceptualisations or ideas that expand the scope of disciplinary spaces, conversations and dialogues.
Research Notes should be 3,000-5,000 words in length (including references and footnotes) with an abstract of 150 words. They are subject to external peer review by one reviewer and strict editorial oversight by the editor. Authors should select Note as the article type on submission.
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