Rolling Out the Red Carpet: A Critique of Neoliberal Motivations Orienting the Promotion of Public Bilingual Schools to Young Learners in Brazil by Alex Alves Egido, Juliana Reichert Assunção Tonelli, Peter De Costa

“…As the analysis unfolds, four questions are addressed: (1) To whose desires is a society of the global South responding to whose desires?; (2) Right thing for the wrong reasons?…”
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Digital Feminist Placemaking: The Case of the “Woman, Life, Freedom” Movement by Asma Mehan

“…This article, grounded in feminist urban theories of the Global South, analyzes the digital feminist placemaking movement in Iran. …”
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Identifying, projecting, and evaluating informal urban expansion spatial patterns by Beth Tellman, Hallie Eakin, B.L. Turner

“…The approach presented here can be applied across cases, potentially improving land projection models in the rapidly urbanizing Global South, characterized by high informality. We conclude with a research agenda to identify, project, and evaluate informal urban expansion patterns.…”
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A 'Rite of Passage' Youth Festival in South Africa by Jayne M. Rogerson, Devin Harmer

“…This paper examines an aspect of festival tourism in the setting of the global South. One rising destination for hosting an array of cultural and other festivals linked to local economic and community development is South Africa The specific objectives of this article are to provide an exploratory analysis of the origins, organization and attendees of one particular South African rite of passage youth festival, namely the matriculation vacation or ‘matric vac’. …”
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Clear, but don’t invest: protected areas discourage some land uses more than others by Allen Blackman, Laura Villalobos

“…Illegal land-use change inside protected areas (PAs) in the global south is common. Yet little is known about whether PAs disproportionately discourage conversion of forests to capital-intensive land uses (CILUs) like coffee and oil palm—an important consideration because CILUs likely have outsized adverse ecological and political-economic effects. …”
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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. …”

Peasant women and the gendered inequalities in the industry of mining by Rafael Fernandes de Mesquita, Alexandra Denise Sophie Marie Carlier Larsimont, André Moura Xavier, Fátima Regina Ney Matos

“… The mining industry in Peru – as well as in many resource-rich countries of the global South – is of great economic and social importance, particularly in remote regions where mineral deposits are often located. …”
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Enabling In-Situ Urbanization through Digitalization by Le Li, Tao Song

“…Finally, digitalization enables the rural transformation and improvement of urban-rural relations in the Global South, which needs to be further explored.…”
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Learning to Shift Power and Center Community Voices in International Development Work by Jill LaLonde, Sheku Mohamed Gassimu Jr.

“…These organizations are raising money in the Global North and doing work in the Global South, with the intended benefit to less economically developed communities. …”
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Age-Friendly Cities in Latin America: A Human Ecological Framework by Jonathan R. Guillemot, Mildred E. Warner

“…We find the domains of UNICEF’s Child-Friendly Cities Initiative, which give more attention to the realities of the Global South, helpful to broaden the WHO’s Age-Friendly Cities Framework.…”
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The critical geopolitics of water conflicts in school textbooks: The case of Germany by Tobias Ide, Anna-Katharina Thiel, Itay Fischhendler

“…The textbooks further reproduce Orientalist stereotypes about the Global South, and about the Middle East in particular, and often promote an uncritical green economy stance towards the privatisation of water. …”
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Editorial by Debajyoti Biswas

“…These literatures in English and literatures in English translation give us an alternative perspective of literary and cultural events of what the academic world calls the “global south.”…”
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Middle-income residential compounds towards resilience through risk management: Experts’ point of view by Rana Adel, Basil Kamel, Ahmed Amin, Sameh El-Feki, Rania Nasreldin

“…The middle-income sector in the Global South faces challenges in finding appropriate housing due to high dwelling costs, loans, and maintenance. …”
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Global inequities in population exposure to urban greenspaces increased amidst tree and nontree vegetation cover expansion by Song Leng, Ranhao Sun, Xiaojun Yang, Liding Chen

“…Human exposure to urban tree vegetation considerably declined in the Global South, widening the disparity between the North and South. …”
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World Order Architecture and G. Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions by I. D. Komarov, M. L. Gorbunova

“…The overall cultural representativeness of the Global North leaders, i.e. traditional powers, is lower than that of the representatives of the Global South leaders, i.e. rising powers. The results of the study generate the conclusion that the current disorder as transitional stage of the international relations is more likely to be replaced by a multipolar rather than a bipolar world order architecture.…”
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Revisiting India’s Amended Citizenship Act 2019 in Light of Constitutional Ethos by Shilpa Jain, Ankit Srivastava, Aditi Richa Tiwary

“…This study dealt with the nuances and intricacies of the problem to explicate viable solutions by an in-depth analysis of the issue in an unprejudiced manner where it used a combined doctrinal and empirical research to assess the perspectives on the policy in the Global South from the Indian experience. The findings reflected that while a majority of the provisions in the Act can be justified based on constitutional parameters, its few provisions are unconstitutional. …”
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Re-Imagining Alternative Futures through Empowerment by Claudia Milena Adler

“…Scholars argue that the development agenda is <i>maldevelopment</i> due to the unrequested interventions delivered to communities, mainly in the Global South. Thus, despite the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the implementation of inner dimensions that facilitate empowerment and are an integral part of development is missing from these sophisticated global frameworks. …”
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Theorising the Islamic State: A Decolonial Perspective by Nkululeko Majozi

“…I, therefore, advance the decolonial theoretical concept of global coloniality as a means of reframing the debate and shifting the point of enunciation from dominant Western views of IS to a more critical Global South decolonial perspective. As such, I emphasise the European origins of terrorism as a constitutive element of the foundation of Western modernity, while addressing the cognitive confinement of security studies theories. …”
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Mission statements and financial performance in Latin-American firms by Julián David Cortés-Sánchez, Liliana Rivera

“…The vast majority of the research on this topic has been performed on companies of the global north, rather than global south. The present study addresses this literature gap through a qualitative and quantitative analysis of MS characteristics (i.e., keywords and readability) for Latin-American firms and their relationship to financial performance. …”
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Generative pedagogies from and for the social production of habitat by Julia Weesley, Adriana Allen, Lorena Zárate, María Silvia Emanuelli

“… Re-thinking dominant epistemological assumptions of the urban in the global South implies recognising the role of grassroots networks in challenging epistemic injustices through the co-production of multiple saberes and haceres for more just and inclusive cities. …”
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