Music, Activism and Academia – Indonesia’s Punk Past and Present with Hikmawan ‘Indra’ Saefullah - GLOBAL SOUTHS HUB Music, Activism and Academia – Indonesia’s Punk Past and Present with Hikmawan Saefullah (Indra)

In this Q&A, Hikmawan 'Indra' Saefullah, lecturer in Politics, Extremism, Philosophy, Studies in Religion, and Peace Studies at the University of New England, talks to Mira Mookerjee about punk’s role to challenge political oppression, his experiences with Pelajar Islam Indonesia (PII) and the new...

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Short Fiction in Theory & Practice

Short Fiction in Theory & Practice; Short Fiction in Theory & Practice provides an international forum for all those writing, reading, translating or publishing the short story, in all its diversity – including flash fiction, the novella, cycles, sequences, anthologies and single-author collections; hypertext, popular fiction (e.g. science fiction, horror), the prose poem, the non-fiction story and other hybrid genres. It looks at the short story from the practitioner’s viewpoint; we are concerned with the ongoing process and philosophy of composition rather than the ‘postevent’ dissection of literary texts. This title is indexed with Scopus. For more information, to access the journal or to subscribe visit the Discover platform here.

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Reckoning with Empire: Defiant Scholarship with Takiyah Harper-Shipman - GLOBAL SOUTHS HUB Reckoning with Empire: Defiant Scholarship with Takiyah Harper-Shipman

How can research translate into action? Associate Professor and Chair of Africana Studies at Davidson College and newly appointed academic editor at Third World Quarterly (TWQ), Takiyah Harper-Shipman, talks to Mira Mookerjee about her upcoming book, Unruly Fertility: Race, Development, and Decolonial Reproductive Politics, defiant scholarship, scholar-activism, and her forum Reckoning with Empire. "This is In this Q&A, Associate Professor and Chair of Africana Studies at Davidson College and newly appointed academic editor at Third World Quarterly (TWQ), Takiyah Harper-Shipman, talks to Mira Mookerjee about defiant scholarship, scholar activism, her forum Reckoning with Empire, and her upcoming book Unruly Fertility: Race, Development, and Decolonial Reproductive Politics.

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Rereading the International through Childhood and Militarisation: Insights from BISA 2026 - GLOBAL SOUTHS HUB Rereading the International through Childhood and Militarisation: Insights from BISA 2026

What can the encounter between childhood and militarisation reveal about international politics? Marcos do Vale Araujo, a PhD Candidate in International Relations at the State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, attended the British International Studies Association (BISA) 2026 Annual Conference in Brighton, and reflects on how the conversations on childhood, militarisation, and global politics challenged Explore how childhood and militarisation reshape international politics through reflections from BISA 2026, challenging conventional views on security and global governance.

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Global Souths Hub Podcast

Series One: Decolonising AccessHost: Bethlehem Attfield, Community Engagement Coordinator & Contributing WriterSeries one of the Global Souths Hub podcast focuses on decolonising access. The series shares inspiring stories from professionals closely connected to the Global South who are challenging exclusion and reshaping what access really means. Through powerful personal stories, the series exposes how knowledge systems continue to marginalise – and how they can be transformed. When we aim to make information accessible, we typically rely on frameworks created within dominant Eurocentric systems. Thus, decolonising this approach involves removing the barriers that these systems impose on us. Decolonising Access means dismantling inherited frameworks and centering lived experience, justice, and human rights.We will launch with a compelling conversation between Bethlehem and esteemed actress, director and writer, Anni Domingo, on doing a PhD in your 70s. In future episodes we talk to academics navigating visual impairment, COP30 representatives, and people working to create high-tech accessibility devices.This podcast is for anyone curious about access, knowledge production, and how both can be reimagined.Email our web curator (webcurator@globalsouths.org) if you have suggestions for interesting guests to invite to the Global Souths Hub Podcast.

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Why I Left Journalism amid the Ongoing Genocide of My People

A young writer and former journalist from Gaza shares why she has lost faith in journalism and the value of sharing the voices of Palestinians with the world since the genocide. Having left Gaza in...

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Redefining “Women’s Work”: Challenging the Limits on Girls’ Education with Baela Raza Jamil - GLOBAL SOUTHS HUB Redefining "Women's Work": Challenging the Limits on Girls' Education with Baela Raza Jamil

Decolonising Access Podcast: Episode Four “Degenerative and non-productive conversations such as ‘When you invest in women, they get married, they will only produce children and no longer work’ – this kind of nonsense has to end. As we know, women are always productive, always doing something, always economically engaged – but it's not counted that In our fourth Global Souths Hub podcast episode, Bethlehem Attfield talks to Baela Raza Jamil. Baela is a public policy specialist, a former technical adviser to Pakistan's Federal Ministry of Education, and a leading advocate for educational reform.

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The Global South House

The Global South House is a platform for collaboration among philanthropic actors from the Global South. Join us to advance socio-environmental justice.

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Staying in School: How the Amal Foundation is Preventing Child Marriage in Bangladesh - GLOBAL SOUTHS HUB

In this piece, Esrat Karim, a Bangladesh-based social entrepreneur and founder of the Amal Foundation shares how initiatives can support young women and girls to avoid early marriage and remain in school. Child marriage is often treated as a cultural issue, but it remains closely tied to poverty and...

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The Manila Paradox: Red-Tagging, Repression, and Democracy in the Philippines - GLOBAL SOUTHS HUB

While the Philippines presents itself internationally as a democratic partner, its domestic reality tells a different story — one marked by red-tagging and intimidation. In this piece, geopolitical analyst Tommaso Franco explores the “Manila paradox” and the growing pressures faced by activists, journalists, lawyers, and ordinary citizens across the country. The story of Zara Alvarez, The Manila paradox exposes how red-tagging, repression, and digital intimidation threaten democracy and press freedom in the Philippines.

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The Gaza Genocide and the Crisis of the Global North: A TWQ Special Issue - GLOBAL SOUTHS HUB

This special issue (The Gaza Genocide and the Crisis of the Global North. Guest Editors: Ibrahim Fraihat and Abeer Al-Najjar, Volume 47, 2026) examines the war on Gaza not only as a devastating act of...

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This Year’s Global Souths Hub Best Contribution Prize Goes to… - GLOBAL SOUTHS HUB This Year’s Global Souths Hub Best Contribution Prize Goes to…

The Global Souths Hub Best Contribution Prize, now in its second year, celebrates outstanding work that enriches the field of Global South Studies. This prize honours scholarship that is original,…

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Reckoning with Empire: Defiant Scholarship with Takiyah Harper-Shipman - GLOBAL SOUTHS HUB Reckoning with Empire: Defiant Scholarship with Takiyah Harper-Shipman

How can research be translated into action? Associate Professor and Chair of Africana Studies at Davidson College and newly appointed academic editor at Third World Quarterly (TWQ), Takiyah Harper-Shi...

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Controlling Women, Controlling Society – Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan - GLOBAL SOUTHS HUB Controlling Women, Controlling Society – Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan

In this post, Mira Mookerjee reflects on the Anthony Hyman Memorial Lecture Controlling women, controlling society: the politics of virtue in Afghanistan with Richard Bennett. Since the Taliban regained power in 2021, girls and women in Afghanistan have been unable to attend secondary school and higher education, making it the only country in the world to Ahead of the upcoming Anthony Hyman Memorial Lecture: The UN in Afghanistan: from state building to survival, rethinking the UN’s role with Mark Bowden, Mira Mookerjee reflects on 2025’s talk Controlling women, controlling society: the politics of virtue in Afghanistan with Richard Bennett.

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Reclaiming Narrative Sovereignty: A Lesson in Challenging Epistemic Erasure - GLOBAL SOUTHS HUB Reclaiming Narrative Sovereignty: A Lesson in Challenging Epistemic Erasure

How do Palestinian classrooms resist counter dominant narratives under occupation and media asymmetry? Hussein AlAhmad, a Associate Professor of Strategic Communication at Arab American University in Palestine, asks this question in an article recently published in Third World Quarterly. This blog reflects the heart of his research: how can education become an epistemic infrastructure for narrative How Palestinian classrooms resist dominant narratives under occupation and media asymmetry, using education to build narrative sovereignty.

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A New TWQ Special Issue: Design Emergencies in Aid and Development - GLOBAL SOUTHS HUB A New TWQ Special Issue: Design Emergencies in Aid and Development

This Special Issue collection of articles in Third World Quarterly, titled Design Emergencies: Interrogating Innovation in Humanitarian Aid and International Development (Vol 47, 2026), investigates the growing trend since the 1960s of using 'design' and 'design thinking' to solve urgent global problems. As the world faces intersecting ecological, political and social emergencies, humanitarian aid and TWQ’s “Design Emergencies” special issue explores how design shapes humanitarian aid and calls for more critical, context-sensitive, decolonial innovation.

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Why Are Measles Making a Dangerous Comeback in Bangladesh and Beyond? - GLOBAL SOUTHS HUB

In this article, Monaemul Islam Sizear, a public health activist from Bangladesh explores why measles – a preventable disease – has seen a resurgence in Bangladesh and beyond. This article draws out critical lessons for strengthening immunisation systems and protecting future generations. Measles remains one of the most contagious infectious diseases globally, and continues Public health activist Monaemul Islam Sizear explores why measles is resurging in Bangladesh and beyond, and what this reveals about immunisation gaps.

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Researching “Successful Ageing” as a Young Feminist Scholar in Thailand - GLOBAL SOUTHS HUB

How might a researcher’s own presence shape the stories that are told? In this blog post, Kullanit Nitiwarangkul, a PhD graduate from the Department of Media, Culture and Creative Industries at City a...

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The Line is Thinner Than we Think: Rebecca Ruth Gould on Academic Freedom - GLOBAL SOUTHS HUB The Line is Thinner Than we Think: Rebecca Ruth Gould on Free Speech and the Fragility of Democracy

In this Q&A, Bethlehem Attfield talks to Rebecca Ruth Gould, who is a School of African and Asian Studies (SOAS) Distinguished Research Professor of Comparative Poetics and Global Politics, about academic freedom, the importance of understanding culture and languages to gain authentic perspectives. She also talks about the courage to speak out on your convictions, In this Q&A, Bethlehem Attfield talks to Rebecca Ruth Gould, who is a School of African and Asian Studies (SOAS) Distinguished Research Professor of Comparative Poetics and Global Politics, about free speech, the importance of understanding culture and languages to gain a full perspective of minority communities. She also talks about the courage to speak out on your convictions, and the small subtle shifts that could lead liberal democracies down a road towards fascism.

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This Year’s Global Souths Hub Best Contribution Prize Goes to… - GLOBAL SOUTHS HUB This Year’s Global Souths Hub Best Contribution Prize Goes to…

The Global Souths Hub Best Contribution Prize, now in its second year, celebrates outstanding work that enriches the field of Global South Studies. This prize honours scholarship that is original, acc...

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Exploring Global South Literary Studies Journal’s New Special Issues - GLOBAL SOUTHS HUB Global South Literary Studies Journal's New Special Issues

How can literature help us better understand the political, cultural, and historical realities of the Global South? The Global South Literary Studies (GSLS) journal, published by Taylor and Francis, launched in 2025. This exciting new space allows scholars, writers, and thinkers to examine the liter...

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Episode Three: Preserving Indigenous Knowledge and Data Sovereignty with Maria Alvarez Malvido - GLOBAL SOUTHS HUB Episode Three: Preserving Indigenous Knowledge and Data Sovereignty with Maria Alvarez Malvido

Decolonising Access Podcast: Episode Three “There’s a common goal of taking care of the land and mapping the knowledge that already exists in the collective memory of the community.” – María Alvarez Malvido Preserving Indigenous Knowledge and Data Sovereign | RSS.com In this episode, Bethle...

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The Life and Legacy of Kassahun Checole: Champion of African Publishing - GLOBAL SOUTHS HUB

What does it take to disrupt Western dominance in publishing? Kassahun Checole founded Africa World Press in the 1980s, a Pan-African publishing house built on resistance, solidarity and belief in African voices. In this interview, Kassahun reflects on his upbringing in Eritrea, the power of indepen...

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When Radio Sounds Like Home: Indigenous Community Radio and Epistemic Justice in India - GLOBAL SOUTHS HUB When Radio Sounds Like Home: Indigenous Community Radio and Epistemic Justice in India

How can radio create epistemic justice? Aniruddha Jena explores Radio Dhimsa in Odisha and how Indigenous community radio sustains language & knowledge.

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Leora Eisenberg: Hear from the Winner of the Irene Hilgers Memorial Prize 2026 - GLOBAL SOUTHS HUB

Every year, Central Asian Survey awards The Irene Hilgers Memorial Prize to a junior scholar, who has published an outstanding article in the journal volume from the preceding calendar year. This year’s award recipient is Leora Eisenberg, a PhD student who is studying Central Asian Soviet history at Harvard University, for her article ‘I became an Uzbek': Jewish-Uzbek encounters in In Central Asian Survey, Leora Eisenberg’s award-winning article examines Jewish-Uzbek encounters, offering new insights into Soviet interethnic relations.

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The Politics of Care: The Pot Lid of Resistance in Colombia’s Street Cooking - GLOBAL SOUTHS HUB The Politics of Care: The Pot Lid of Resistance in Colombia’s Street Cooking

What does it mean to care in contexts shaped by uncertainty? In this piece, three scholars (Ana María Cruz, Viviana García Pinzón and Jan Grill) based in Colombia and Germany reflect on the complexiti...

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