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How do China and the European Union perceive the Western Balkans, and how are their constructed identities reflected in the region? Our new article in TWQ adresses this question: tandfonline.com/eprint/JHGUGSQ…

Prolegomena for technodiversity: on data and indigeneity, by Toni Čerkez & Wasiq Silan doi.org/10.1080/014365…

TWQ is proud to announce the publication of the journal’s first Research Notes 🌟 Find the articles under ‘Latest articles’ on the journal website: tandfonline.com/action/showAxa… Interested in submitting a Research Note to TWQ? Find more information here: tandfonline.com/action/authorS…

Pluriversality as methodology, by Amaya Querejazu doi.org/10.1080/014365…

Escaping the Capitalist Black Hole: dethroning Mammon and liberating water, by Nagheeby et al. doi.org/10.1080/014365…

New publication out! My article in Third World Quarterly looks at racial capital through autoethnographic reflections on being a Turkic migrant in Türkiye. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… @thirdworldq #MigrationPolicy #GlobalSouth

Read my latest article online in @thirdworldq: Track II diplomacy meets action research: fostering collaborative foreign policy between Türkiye and the EU in North Africa tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

🧠 📖 The new @thirdworldq Special Issue, Decolonising Epistemology: Intellectual Imperialism and the Coloniality of Knowledge, explores how colonial histories continue to shape global knowledge production through intellectual imperialism and academic dependency. The contributors call for urgent reform: 🔸 Centering subaltern knowledge not as data, but as thinking 🔸 Dismantling Eurocentric academic structures 🔸 Creating global flows of knowledge that are equitable and just Edited by: Caroline M. Schöpf (Assistant Professorial Fellow @Official_UPD), Tamari Kitossa (Professor of Sociology @BrockUSociology and the Graduate Program Director for the MA in Critical Sociology @BrockUniversity), Bandana Purkayastha (Board of Trustees and Distinguished Professor of Sociology @UConn) and Matthew Chew (Associate Professor at the Department of Digital Arts and Creative Industries @lingnanuni) Read about the SI here 🔽 buff.ly/zGPKLWr

✨ @thirdworldq’s new Special Issue highlights strategies of resistance across geographies and disciplines, offering critical tools to build more just and plural futures. 🖋️ Guest Edited by Yafa El Masri, @developmentuea buff.ly/73ugzuS

Our special issue with Andrew F.Cooper and @samiratoudipama on Fragmented multilateralism and international institutions between complexities and challenges has been published. You can reach the full issue via the following link 👇 ⁦@thirdworldq⁩ tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

🔔 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, racialised filmmakers, and grassroots movements - all sharing stories of knowledge systems under threat, and the creative strategies of resistance they employ. From autoethnography to body mapping, the issue features voices from the margins reshaping how we think about knowledge, power, and justice. Guest Editor: Yafa El Masri, Palestinian refugee and academic, currently Lecturer in Geography and Global Development @uniofeastanglia. Read more about the SI here ⬇️ buff.ly/iNvtrDi

🌍 Find our new call for papers on the #BeltandRoad Initiative at: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues… The deadline for abstracts is the 15th of April 2026. @GlobalSouthsHub

📢 Our latest issue is now available online! tandfonline.com/toc/ccas20/cur… 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

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 a site of emerging resistance theories that challenge Western frameworks and redefine justice, space, and politics. Edited by: Hosna J. Shewly, Research Fellow at the Department of Anthropology, @UvA_Amsterdam, and the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, @VUamsterdam and Eva Gerharz (Professor of Sociology at the Department of Social and Cultural Sciences at Fulda University of Applied Sciences). Read more about the SI here ⬇️ buff.ly/Rxd29BG

Find our new special issue, 'Reconceptualising Activism Space in the Contemporary Global South' here: tandfonline.com/toc/ctwq20/cur… Guest edited by Hosna J Shewly and Eva Gerharz @GlobalSouthsHub

📢 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 working on peace & conflict. 🔗 buff.ly/9dzGRpj

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 of ‘Radical Uncertainty’?", organised by @thirdworldq Board Member @nadine_ansorg, among others. Open to all. Register here 🔽 buff.ly/oOIA7TA?

"Building blocks of soft power: a sociopolitical history of Western schools in Ghana" is available free/ open access via @thirdworldq doi.org/10.1080/014365…