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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In the Shadow of the Colonizer: Studying Up in the Postcolonial Middle East by Liina Mustonen

“…By delving into the complexities of elite research in a context that is informed and shaped by colonial legacies, the article questions the analytical value of binaries such as ‘Western’ and ‘non-Western,’ the ‘Global South’ and the ‘Global North,’ and ‘colonized’ and ‘colonizer’. …”
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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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La emigración académica España-Ecuador durante el período de recesión económica: España-Ecuador durante el período de recesión económica: España-Ecuador durante el ¿una geoes... by PÉREZ-GAÑÁN, Rocío, MORENO, Gorka

“…Nonetheless, during the economic crisis of the past few years, there has been a significant change and increase, directing migrants to counties in the global South. This change of direction is not a coincidence; it is in response to a geographic strategy which is articulated around two fundamental axes: securing teaching and research experience, which, in today’s Spain, is difficult to find yet key to enter or continue in Academia, and enjoying a quality of life which is not possible in Spain. …”
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Expertise on the Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon: A Hybrid Cultural Boundary Approach by Mireille Manga Edimo

“…The analysis stems from a critical postcolonial perspective, while introducing the ‘hybrid’ cultural contexts, ‘hybrid’ institutional designs, and ‘virtual’ discursive spaces which acknowledge the specific cultural character of a case study in the Global South. Using the interpretive methodology, the analysis has relied on documented history, policy discourses in different media, and interviews.…”
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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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The West and the Rest of Us? by Masilo Lepuru

“…Thus, a foundation of the “global South” as a victim of underdevelopment by the West was laid. …”
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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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Leave Her Alone, She Speaks the Truth by Noxolo Matete

“…In considering Christianity’s positioning within colonialism and feminism, an African feminist position should seek to recognize the contradictions inherent in Christianity and, by extension, facilitate the nuanced experiences women in postcolonial, global South contexts have with Christianity. While some women might find Christianity oppressive, others may find it deeply fulfilling and others still may experience these dichotomies simultaneously. …”
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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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Solidarity and its decoloniality in global health ethics by Ademola Kazeem Fayemi, David Gerrard Kirchhoffer, Bridget Pratt

“…This article concludes that the palaver decolonial approach from the Global South has implications for expanding conceptual perspectives on solidarity in global health ethics.…”
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Arithmetic of the sound of silence by Robert Madoi Nasaba

“…However, this article argues that the blur of mainstream media and web 2.0 allows men to assume a superior status to women – especially in the global South. The thesis of this article proffers a fresh insight that goes beyond the descriptions of how the web creates contraflows of information for Southern women. …”
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'Jami Chadiba Nahin' (We Will Not Leave this Land): Materiality and Imagination in Indigenous Land Ethics by Ananya Mishra

“…This is in the hope that the questions might enlighten and reify contemporary concerns in these respective geographical and intellectual locations, complicating the site and probing the intellectual divide between the Global North and the Global South in area studies, to see how Indigenous concerns globally are aligned in the face of a global climate crisis, as they are disproportionately affected due to historical injustices of empire, settler colonial enterprise, caste orders and religious nationalisms. …”
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