Regulating human genomic research in Africa: why a human rights approach is a more promising conceptual framework than genomic sovereignty by Faith Kabata, Donrich Thaldar, Donrich Thaldar

“…The article comprehensively examines the concept of genomic sovereignty, which was invoked mainly in the global South as a conceptual framework for state regulation of human genomic research. …”
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Serving the needy from the greedy: Reviewing Diakonia in African neo-Pentecostalism by Kimion Tagwirei

“…When the economy turned downwards across most African nations over the past two decades hitherto today, multifarious neo-Pentecostal churches correspondingly multiplied in and beyond the Global South. While it ordinarily appeared to be a revolutionary Africanisation of Christian revival through massive indigenous evangelisation and establishment of new denominations, countless leading prophetic apostles were selfishly enriching themselves paradoxically in the world’s headquarters of poverty, where the needy are multiplying and dying. …”
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Liberated or Recolonized: Making the Case for Embodied Evaluation in Peacebuilding by Ruby Quantson Davis

“… The quest to liberate and decolonize evaluation could create a recolonizing process in development evaluation unless practitioners pay attention to an embodied process that allows persons and communities in the global south to bring all of their epistemologies to an evaluation process. …”
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Agency and Incentives of Diasporic Political Influencers on Facebook Malawi by Deborah Nyangulu, Albert Sharra

“…In their seminal work on “social media dissidents” and “social media self-made activists” in the Global South, Matsilele and Sharra demonstrate that social media activists engage with different strategies to initiate movements, mobilize citizens, and create their brands in strong opposition to authoritarian regimes which repositions them as freedom fighters in the eyes of the masses and enemies of the state. …”
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Desalination and Water Security: The Promise and Perils of a Technological Fix to the Water Crisis in Baja California Sur, Mexico by Jamie McEvoy

“…The findings provide evidence of increased yet delimited water security at a neighbourhood scale while identifying new vulnerabilities related to desalination, particularly in the context of the global South. This article concludes that implementing a technological fix on top of a water management system that is plagued with more systemic and structural problems does little to improve long-term water management and is likely to foreclose or forestall other water management options. …”
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Rental housing policies and associated legal covers: Case of middle income formal housing in Karachi by Suneela Ahmed, Madiha Salam

“…In the global south, policies related to the housing sector have a general inclination towards property ownership. …”
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(Im)mobility Economies: Extractivism of the Refugee as a Human Commodity by Julia C. Morris

“…In putting forward an asylum claim, migrants (largely the Black and brown poor from the global South) must perform within a particular objectified narrative, making claims on their bodies to move between sovereign states. …”
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How to Leverage Action Research to Develop Context-specific Capacity Building for Civil Society Organizations by Weber Peter, Krawczyk Kelly, Ezeonu Brian Ikechukwu, Tuggle Felicia

“…In a global context, international donors tend to design and implement capacity building programs, which then prioritize donors’ objectives and employ Western concepts in the Global South. This research note aims to reframe capacity building around inclusive and equal partnerships centered on civil society leaders who participate in designing and delivering capacity building programs. …”
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Estimating Local Inequality from Nighttime Lights by Nils B. Weidmann, Gerlinde Theunissen

“…However, research on these questions is hampered by the fact that local inequality is difficult to measure and systematic data collections are rare, in particular in countries of the Global South. We propose a new measure of local inequality derived from nighttime light (NTL) emissions data. …”
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The Favela (Slum) As A City – Children Growing Up In Territories Of Public (In)Security by Adelaide Rezende de Souza, Lucia Rabello de Castro

“…Studies about children in the Global South often miss the wealth of possibilities of living a childhood and making sense of oneself as a child in places where adversities are rife. …”
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Forum: Populist Radical Right & Illiberal Foreign Policymaking by Carolina Salgado, Guilherme Casarões, Ayse Zarakol

“…Are there more differences or similarities among populist radical right (PRR) in the Global South regarding how they perform foreign policy? …”
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Pathway choice and post-Covid tourism: Inclusive growth or business as usual? by Julia Jeyacheya, Mark P. Hampton

“…Until the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic struck, international tourism was seen as a driver of economic development, government revenue, employment and livelihoods for many countries in the Global South. This commentary considers the choice of pathway facing policymakers for the post-Covid tourism recovery (further risks notwithstanding of newer variants such Omicron and vaccine shortfalls causing a globally uneven recovery of tourism). …”
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Muslim Women’s Activism in the USA: Politics of Diverse Resistance Strategies by Naila Sahar

“…Tracing Muslim women activists’ emotional and experiential geographies I will look at ways in which dynamics of solidarity between them have moved beyond dichotomous divisions of global-local, global North-global South, and empire-colony. With the discussion of lives and activism of Amina Wadud, Linda Sarsour and Asra Nomani, this paper will contextualize these activists within the spaces of resistance which they inhabit, while navigating their challenges in the context of geopolitical tensions and conflicts which are their lived realities in the USA.…”
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Environmental worldviews and attitudes of public-sector urban planners in shaping sustainable urban development: the case of South Africa by Rebecca Read, Charlie M. Shackleton, Gisele K. Sinasson Sanni

“…However, there is relatively little understanding of their perceptions of sustainability generally and how or where they obtain information and knowledge around urban sustainability, especially in the Global South. This study, therefore, adopted a mixed-methods approach, employing both an online survey (34 valid respondents) and eight in-depth interviews (together spanning 31 different municipalities), to assess the knowledge, attitudes, and worldviews (based on the New Ecological Paradigm scale) of public-sector planners in South Africa. …”
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Aspiring While Waiting: Temporality and Pacing of Ghanaian Stayer Youth’s Migration Aspirations by Onallia Esther Osei, Valentina Mazzucato, Karlijn Haagsman

“…Many youth in Global South countries, whose parents have migrated abroad while they have stayed, i.e., “stayer youth,” also aspire to migrate. …”
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IRAN’S FOREIGN POLICY AND EVOLVING ROLE OF SOUTH-SOUTH COOPERATION by Luciano Zaccara

“…The article also covers the participation of Iran in the international institutions of the Global South, including Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), G77, etc.…”
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Bringing research alive through stories: reflecting on research storytelling as a public engagement method by Judith E. Krauss, Suma Mani, Jonas Cromwell, Itzel San Roman Pineda, Frances Cleaver

“…This culminated in a storytelling evening as part of the Economic and Social Research Council’s Festival of Social Science, at which researchers from different disciplines discussed various nature–society dynamics in diverse field sites in the Global South. By reflecting on the training process and the performance through qualitative interviews with storytellers and audience members, our study answers the research question: What lessons emerge from an interdisciplinary group of researchers engaging with research storytelling for public engagement? …”
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Exploring the relationship between droughts and rural-to-urban mobility—a mixed methods approach for Pune, India by Raphael Karutz, Sigrun Kabisch

“…Urbanization in the global South is intricately linked with the internal mobility of people and the impacts of climate change. …”
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The After-life of Social Movements by Purbali Sengupta

“…While medico-scientific discourses to fight the Pandemic gained ground in Global North, the Global South is still grappling with pseudo-knowledge/occult science narratives. …”
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Institutional and instructional decolonizing mathematics education by Arthur Belford Powell, Andrew M. Brantlinger, Luis A. Royo Romero

“… In this theoretical essay, we respond to recent scholarship on decolonizing mathematics that asserts that so-called “Western” mathematics is inherently colonialist – that is, in service of the economic and political control of European or wealthy nations over countries of the Global South. Although generally sympathetic with that literature, we argue against some of its presumptions, in part, by distinguishing “Western” or academic mathematics from its recontextualization for schools. …”
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