Occupy Waikīkī: pushing the borders of land, sea and story-telling in Kristiana Kahakauwila’s This is Paradise (2013) by Sylvie Largeaud-Ortega

“…It defends the oppressed female figures from both global South and global North, metaphorically counters colonialism and restores their historical and spiritual polysemy to land, beach and ocean in Waikīkī.…”
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Expert projections on the development and application of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage technologies by Tobias Heimann, Lara-Sophie Wähling, Tomke Honkomp, Ruth Delzeit, Alessandra Pirrone, Franziska Schier, Holger Weimar

“…The results show significant differences depending on whether the experts work in the Global North or the Global South. Thus, the findings underline the importance of including experts from the Global South in discussions on carbon dioxide removal methods. …”
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P. Dibeela, P. Lenka-Bula & V. Vellem (Eds.), Prophet from the South: Essays in honour of Allan Aubrey Boesak by Wessel Wessels

“…A quick overview of the list of contributors reveals Boesak’s influence, in the global North and the global South, on a diversity of people from all walks of life. …”
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Academic Dependency and Neoliberalism: Emerging Trends in Tourism Studies from a Latin American Lens by Gabriel Comparato, Florencia Viviana Moscoso

“…First, key aspects for considering and addressing the idea of neoliberalism in the social sciences of the Global South are explored. The second axis includes an analysis of dependency within tourism studies. …”
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La écfrasis en el Libro de Alexandre, un proyecto de edición digital para el estudio de la poesía clerical castellana del siglo XIII con minimal computing by Gabriel A. Calarco

“…Furthermore, this article aims to offer a reflection on the need to promote the use of open software in Digital Scholarly Edition projects, especially those that take place in the Global South.…”
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Les politiques de mobilité durable à Amman : vecteurs de promotion urbaine et outils de gouvernement contestés by Eliott Ducharme

“…It aims at bringing new elements in the discussion on how globalization and neoliberalization processes affect cities of the global South. It insists on Amman municipality’s active role and strategy in mobilizing international “best practices” and actor networks. …”
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The migrant and refugee entrepreneur (of the self): vernacular modes of immaterial labor as (re)invention of the self in the destination country by Laura Alves Scherer1, Carmem Ligia Iochins Grisci

“…The cartographic method was used to collect data from interviews and participant observation in Porto Alegre (Brazil), exploring events-activities, key informants, and economic migrants and refugees from the global south who work with music, dance, food, fashion, language, and political-cultural representation. …”
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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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Water woes: the institutional challenges in achieving SDG 6 by Jaivime Evaristo, Yusuf Jameel, Cecilia Tortajada, Raymond Yu Wang, James Horne, Howard Neukrug, Carlos Primo David, Angela Maria Fasnacht, Alan D. Ziegler, Asit Biswas

“…This requires innovative financial solutions, reimagining water governance structures, and ensuring all voices, especially from the Global South, are heard and integrated into global policies. …”
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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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Expertise économique et reconfigurations disciplinaires dans la décolonisation by Thomas Irace

“…As an illustration, I discuss the Mission d’assistance économique set up by the Ministry of Overseas France in 1955, whose 1958 spinoff – the private consultancy firm SEDES – remained one of the main French organisations sending economists to the Global South until the 1980s.…”
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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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Africa-China Relations and the Issue of South-South Cooperation by Nana Kwame Nkrumah, Daniel Dramani Kipo-Sunyehzi

“…Africa sees China as a partner in development with the global South-South Cooperation. As a measure of friendship, China constructed the African Union headquarters at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for free. …”
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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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Reimagining innovation pathways: exnovation and Buen Vivir as Global North–South dialogues by Karina Maldonado-Mariscal, Rick Hölsgens

“…From a Global North perspective, exnovation has gained prominence. From a Global South perspective, particularly in South America, Buen Vivir calls for responsibility and nature-inclusiveness. …”
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Negotiating local and global: Developing Social Science research ethics policy in a Central Asian context by Roza Sagitova, Zarena Syrgak kyzy, Lynne Parmenter

“…This paper addresses the issue of how local and global norms and requirements are negotiated in the early stages of development of Social Science research ethics policy in a Global South context. A review of relevant literature followed by analysis of relevant national and institutional policies highlights both tensions and creative potential for ongoing research ethics initiatives. …”
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