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TWQ publishes leading research in international studies, examining issues, policy & development discourses that affect the Global South. Retweets ≠ endorsement
University of London
Joined July 2015
🚨 ATTENTION ALL AFRICAN SCHOLARS 🚨
🚨 ATTENTION ALL AFRICAN SCHOLARS 🚨 We are delighted to announce the launch of @thirdworldq's #KassahunChecole Prize for the most innovative article by an #EarlyCareerResearcher in African Studies. Read more about the award. https://t.co/Lsp3ATTx0X
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🔔 Excited to share @thirdworldq's new Special Issue (SI), "Confronting Epistemic Erasures: Decolonising Knowledge, Fostering Resistance and Building Alternatives", bringing together voices from across geographies and disciplines - refugees, Indigenous groups, queer artists,
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This Third World Quarterly (TWQ) Special Issue (SI) explores the phenomenon of Epistemic Erasure as the process through which the knowledge systems of marginalized communities are rendered invisible,...
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🌍 Find our new call for papers on the #BeltandRoad Initiative at: https://t.co/cr2LvLzsMu The deadline for abstracts is the 15th of April 2026. @GlobalSouthsHub
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📢 Our latest issue is now available online! https://t.co/80DAGa0bSO Topics featured include the feminization of migration and political stability in authoritarian regimes, plus two new research notes on approaches to fieldwork and five new book reviews📚 @GlobalSouthsHub
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Activism in the #GlobalSouth is not just reactive, it’s emotionally charged, spatially hybrid, and intellectually generative. This @thirdworldq Special Issue features case studies from India, South Africa, Palestine, Iran, Kenya, Chile & Pakistan, positioning the Global South as
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Find our new special issue, 'Reconceptualising Activism Space in the Contemporary Global South' here: https://t.co/RcOKWewoQO Guest edited by Hosna J Shewly and Eva Gerharz @GlobalSouthsHub
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📢 Spotlight on this week's, Legitimacy in Conflict & Peace conference, @UniKent (17-29 Sept)! #CRS2025 To mark the event, we’ve put together a free-to-view reading list of 10 key articles from @thirdworldq and Conflict, Security & Development journals. A must-read for anyone
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At a moment when authoritarianism, militarisation, and funding cuts challenge peacebuilding, can peacebuilders still deliver legitimacy? 🕊️ Join experts at @UniKent on 17 Sept (6:00pm–7:30pm) for a probing public session on "Can Peacebuilders Still Work for Legitimacy in a Time
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"Building blocks of soft power: a sociopolitical history of Western schools in Ghana" is available free/ open access via @thirdworldq
https://t.co/e13vxl7ZMJ
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Western education is touted as a crucial soft power resource, yet it first came to the African continent as a tool of political conquest, social domination and religious control. The first physical...
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Productive vs. reproductive work: rethinking the relationship New article by Hadia Majid: https://t.co/0bpQvkf7My
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🎉 We are delighted to announce that Erica Marat has been appointed Editor of Central Asian Survey 🎉 Please join us in welcoming Erica to the team! @GlobalSouthsHub @tandfhss @EricaMarat
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Biometric coloniality: digital consensus and the biometric state in Africa New article by Victor Chidubem Iwuoha and Martin Doevenspeck: https://t.co/QinTSbTQQn
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Ready to challenge global inequalities? Join the inaugural @MYBISA‑@isanet Joint Workshops, exploring topics such as, #climatejustice, #decolonising knowledge, #peacebuilding & more, with Program Co-Chairs, Matt Davies (@thirdworldq Academic Editor), Skyler Hawkins & @Moriel_Ram
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📙 We’re thrilled to congratulate @thirdworldq Academic Editor & Research Professor @nupinytt, Professor Morten Bøås, on the release of his new book "Sahel: The Perfect Storm" (@HurstPublishers, July 2025). An incisive exploration of the Sahel’s intertwined crises - from
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🚨 New Article 🚨 My latest open access piece with @___meerkat in @thirdworldq: "Moral geographies: Indian exceptionalism, Africa & South–South cooperation". We unpack how India’s ties with the African continent blend solidarity, soft power & postcolonial paternalism.
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💬 “Why should #Australia recognise #Palestinian statehood?” @thirdworldq Academic Editor, Dr @S_Akbarzadeh and Dr @SbcsbcC from @Deakin argue that recognition signals commitment to #internationallaw, supports Palestinian self‑determination, and strengthens the two‑state solution
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"here is another side to #decolonising knowledge that has received less #scholarly attention: the need to learn how to say ‘we’" NEW paper online now from Gisela Carrasco-Miró: https://t.co/uu770eeSwj
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This one took time - and a bit more time to actually post - but here’s my article in @thirdworldq (May 2025): "Ideology & the Question of Agency in Africa’s IR: The Case of Ghana" Open Access copy here:🔗 https://t.co/74Bl6uJsHt
#Ghana #AfricanAgency #ForeignPolicy
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This article in @thirdworldq examines how Mainland Chinese immigrants learn about their Chineseness as a sign of difference and how they apply the tool of racial capital to manage the ‘othering’ process (such as concealing Chineseness and reassessing Hong Kongers’ identity).
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🇰🇪 My open access article on the geopolitical economy of Kenyan #polyalignment is out now with @thirdworldq. @ShaharHameiri @DrLeeJones @jessicamdicarlo @seth_schindler @C4Mboya @ShangweliBeria @Udadisi @ThabitSenior @Cavinceworld @SCWObservatory
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Africa is often treated as peripheral to contemporary geopolitics. This article challenges this reading by conceptualising polyalignment as an extraverted form of African agency, which is not solel...
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📢 Our new article with Professor Emel Parlar Dal on the EU’s relations with Informal Intergovernmental Organizations is now available in @thirdworldq!
Very happy to share that our article with @ArveloaMert on “An informal mode for multilateral cooperation: assessing the European Union’s engagements with informal intergovernmental organisations (IIGOs)”is finally out. Here is its free print link :
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