Introduction: From the idea of Africa to the African idea of Africa by Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Bongani Ngqulunga

“… This special issue is part of the collaborative research project initiated by the Chair in Epistemologies of the Global South with Emphasis on Africa, based at the University of Bayreuth in Germany, and the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study (JIAS), based at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa. …”
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Economics and cost effectiveness of a rain garden for flood-resistant urban design by D. Rinchumphu, N. Suriyanon, N. Phichetkunbodee, S. Munlikawong, C. Wanitchayapaisit, S. Sitthikankun

“…However, design guidelines and the means of assessing rain garden cost effectiveness in the Global South are limited. Furthermore, as many countries in the Global South experience a tropical climate, design guidelines developed in the temperate Global North may not be directly transferable. …”
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Governmentality, Democracy, and Liberalism: Desire in Samrat Upadhyay’s ‘The Guru of Love’ by Pushpa Acharya

“…Set against the backdrop of Nepal in the global south, The Guru of Love challenges conventional notions, suggesting that democracy’s efficacy does not hinge on industrialisation and education alone. …”
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United Nations Peacekeeping and the Principal of Non-Intervention: A TWAIL Perspective by Jennifer Giblin by Madeeha Umair Malik

“…Nonetheless, it provides a valuable contribution to understanding the complexities of UN peacekeeping, sovereignty, and international legal norms in the Global South. …”
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Connecting ‘Souths’. The Construction of Academic Networks between Latin America and Africa by Bayle, Paola Adriana

“…It is believed that CLACSO developed this institutional policy in order to point out the assymetries in the World Academic System, constructed historically between academic centres and peripheries (North and South). In this system, global south academic actors are debilitated in their possibilities of production and circulation of knowledge. …”
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Digital policy and Nigeria’s Platform Code of Practice: towards a radical co-regulatory turn by Vincent Obia

“…It further sheds light on what co-regulation entails for digital regulatory practice in the wider African context, particularly in terms of the balance of power realities between Global North platforms and Global South countries.…”
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Stories less told. Behind-the-scenes of feminist narrative research in Brazil by Naomi Orton, Liana Biar

“…In the Global South, and more precisely in Brazil, scholars interested in the interplay between language and social life have long argued in support of an avowedly political research agenda. …”
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Wallander's Dark Geopolitics by Stougaard-Nielsen Jakob

“…More specifically, I consider what may be gained from exploring the Wallander series within two distinct – yet, I shall argue, related – perspectives on geopolitics and crime fiction: on the one hand, the geopolitics of the translation, adaptation, and reception networks that have “worlded” the Wallander series (what I call Wallander's geopolitical adaptation networks), and on the other, the fictional geopolitical networks that weave the Global North and the Global South together in several of Mankell's intricate crime plots (Wallander's dark geopolitics).…”
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Crimillegal Orders: Revisiting Organized Crime’s Political Power by Markus Schultze-Kraft

“…Despite its relevance to understanding political change and instability in many parts of the global South, the relationship between organized crime and political order remains understudied. …”
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Working with all nations and all relatives in feeding the future by Shaileshkumar Shukla

“…Many international agencies (including those affiliated with the United Nations), food systems scholars, grassroots organizations, and community members are grappling with the very imminent challenges of addressing the alarmingly high level of food insecurity in Turtle Island (Council of Canadian Academics, 2014; Fieldhouse & Thompson, 2012) and the global South (Kuhnlein et al., 2013). …”
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Contentious Territorial Alliances: Coalition Politics and Struggles over Urban Development in Pikine, Senegal by Nicole C. List

“…Contentious territorial struggles over how to manage and develop city spaces figure centrally in research on urban governance in the global South. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork in Pikine, a rapidly urbanizing city in Senegal’s Dakar Region, this article examines how Dakar's political geography is being transformed by the configuration of multiple, overlapping territorial strategies for the development of urban farmland in one of the region’s few remaining pockets of green spaces. …”
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Linking weather and climate information services (WCIS) to Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) practices by Tafadzwanashe Mabhaudhi, Tinashe Lindel Dirwai, Cuthbert Taguta, Aidan Senzanje, Wuletawu Abera, Ajit Govid, Elliott Ronald Dossou-Yovo, Ermias Aynekulu, Vimbayi Grace Petrova Chimonyo

“…Specifically, it addresses the following questions: (1) What is the current status of knowledge on WCIS and CSA in the global south, specifically the African continent?, (2) Are WCIS effectively tailored and linked to CSA practices and technologies to improve agricultural water management (AWM) amongst smallholder farmers?…”
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Articuler protection des ressources en eau et accès à l’eau potable en Indonésie : quel cadre d’analyse ? by Catherine Baron, Héloïse Valette

“…The article provides an original perspective for identifying the conditions of change for water governance that integrates sustainability issues in the global South.…”
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Data Workers in AI development by Jonas Chagas Lucio Valente

“…The paper is guided by the following research question: what are the challenges to the sovereignty of AI data workers from the Global South on cloudwork platforms? Discussing the organization of the labor process on cloudwork platforms through a lense of historical-dialectic materialism, it highlights challenges posed by workers’ structurally weak bargaining power and lack of access to labor rights and social protections, arguing that such factors limit the individual and collective sovereignty of workers. …”
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ISLAM AND CAPITALISM: THE DYNAMICS OF RELIGION AND CONTEMPORARY INDONESIAN WORK ORIENTATION by Husnul Khitam

“…The impressive economic growth at an average level of 5 percent, a low rate of inflation at 2.36, the rose of consumption growth to 5.1 percent, the rapid decline of poor people, and the low Gini ratio index at 0.382 show how vital Indonesia as an exemplar of the growth of capitalism in the global south. The fact that the most populous Muslims are spread widely in Southeast Asia and Indonesia would be the best example of how capitalism and religion play their role along with their cultural and social characteristics. …”
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Rising infrastructure inequalities accompany urbanization and economic development by Bhartendu Pandey, Christa Brelsford, Karen C. Seto

“…Third, we find greater future infrastructure inequality increases in the global south, where inequalities will rise more in countries with substantial urban primacy. …”
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Engaging Political Pentecostalism: A Probe into the Political Theology of a Post-Confessional Christian Network by Leandro Luis Bedin Fontana

“…This new development represents a point of inflection in many respects within the trajectory of modern societies, particularly in the Global South, and adds new challenges to the already vexed relation between religion and civil society. …”
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The “Daily Digital”: (Re)imagining Technology in Home-Based Women’s Gig Work in Egypt. by Laila Mourad

“…The Daily Digital framework offers valuable insights for (re)imagining gig work and advancing research and policy in the Global South. …”
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Transnational Criminal Law in Transatlantic Perspective (1870–1945): Introductory Notes, Initial Results and Concepts by Karl Härter, Valeria Vegh Weis

“…In this regime not only states but also non-governmental actors from the Global North and the Global South played a vital role, exchanged and created legal knowledge and normativity as well as narratives of »international crime« which also had an impact on the respective domestic levels of criminal law, criminalisation, policing and criminal justice. …”
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A Historical Review of African Scholarship and the Decolonial Discourse: Challenges and Prospects by Juliet Munyaradzi

“… African scholarship plays an important role in asserting the value of African epistemologies and those of the global South in the knowledge economy. This is pertinent to higher education in postcolonial Africa, whose indigenous knowledge systems and intellectual legacies have played peripheral roles because of coloniality and the global neoliberal trends. …”
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