Secluded Lives: Restricted Urban Practices of Migrant Domestic and Care Workers in Istanbul by Ezgi Tuncer, Zeynep Eren-Benlisoy

“…The significance of our study is that it contributes to analyses of Global South–South female labour migration from a gender perspective, which has emerged as a relatively new and burgeoning field in migration studies. …”
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Modelling Stakeholders’ Capacity for Urban Housing Development: A Developing Country’s Perspective by Chisumbe Sampa, Aigbavboa Clinton, Thwala Wellington, Mwanaumo Erastus

“…The findings have practical implications for improving housing in the global south. It advances the promotion of capacity building as a prerequisite for driving housing development in line with the new urban agenda.…”
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Furious depletion—Conceptualizing artisan mining and extractivism through gender, race, and environment by Muriel Côte

“…Artisan mining is a form of small scale mineral extraction that occupies around 45 million people around the world, and sustains the life of many more, especially in the Global South. Much research has looked at this expanding form of livelihood, particularly through the prism of its persistent informality, its labor organization, and its challenges to environmental and labor rights. …”
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African International Relations, Genocidal Histories and the Emancipatory Project. Part 2 by Horace G. Campbell

“…Struggles from the Global South had culminated in the World Conference against Racism (WCAR) process, elevating the anti-racist battles as a core challenge of Africas International Relations. …”
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Political Participation of Minors in India: A Critical Perspective from the Prism of the UNCRC by Rongeet Poddar

“…This paper incorporates diverse perspectives in existing child rights literature, including those emanating from the Global South, to argue in favour of an epistemic reorientation in child rights law discourse. …”
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A Validated Framework for Characterising Informal Settlements: Two Cases from Greater Cairo, Egypt by Asser Bakhaty, Ashraf M. Salama, Branka Dimitrijević

“…In addition, the inferred informal urban form can be considered as a sustainable urban form tailored for further analyses of informal settlements of cities of the global south.…”
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COOPERATION OF ACTORS IN MAINTENANCE OF URBAN GREEN SYSTEMS IN DAR ES SALAAM CITY: THE CASE OF MBWENI, KIJICHI AND BUYUNI by Helene Stephene Francis, Makarius Victor Mdemu, Ally Hassan Namangaya

“…However, the rate of disappearance is increasing in the global south and affects the resilience of cities. But their disappearance has been associated with inadequate cooperation of actors. …”

The optics of dispossession: urban precarity as political art by Uli Linke, Andy Buchanan

“…In contrast to the racialised human form, which is central to iconographies of the North American Black ghetto, the shanty-town inhabitants and city builders of the Global South are typically rendered visually absent: a tropology of people’s disempowerment and dispossession. …”
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The challenges of gig economy and Fairwork in Ecuador by María Belén Albornoz, Henry Chávez

“…However, countries located in the Global South, such as Ecuador, face challenges in adapting to these requirements due to the presence of infrastructure deficiencies, shortcomings in the local financial ecosystem and regulatory gaps, which impede the maturation of digital industries. …”
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Rearing livestock on the edge of secondary cities: examining small ruminant production on the fringes of Wa, Ghana by Ibrahim Abu Abdulai

“…Rapid urbanization exerts pressure on urban fringe resources in most cities in the global south. The resultant effect of this pressure is the rapid conversion of natural reserves and farmlands into residential and non-residential developments that affects crucial rural livelihoods including the production of small ruminants. …”
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Achieving Palm Oil Sustainability Under Contract: Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil and Family Farmers in the Brazilian Amazon by Diana Córdoba, Jesse Abrams, Theresa Selfa

“…Our analysis underscores the complex process of reconciling environmental and labor-standard aspirations of Global North certification schemes with the existing legal and enforcement frameworks in the Global South.…”
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Monitoring rural-urban transformation in the coastal region of Rabat-Sale-Kenitra, Morocco by Safia Loulad, Thanh Thi Nguyen, Mohamed Rabii Simou, Hassan Rhinane, Andreas Buerkert

“…Worldwide urbanization drives rural-urban transformation (RUT) which has major consequences in many countries of the Global South where there is an urgent need to better understand and manage the underlying processes and consequences for ecosystem services. …”
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More than a belated Gutenberg Age: Daily Newspapers in India. An Overview of the Print Media Development since the 1980s, Key Issues and Current Perspectives by Nadja-Christina Schneider

“…In order to de-westernize the current debate about the ‘newspaper crisis’, it would thus be important to look at different historical as well as contemporary trajectories of newspaper developments in the framework of changing media configurations in the so-called global South, which may differ significantly from the European or North American context.…”
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The Roles of Family and School Members in Influencing Children’s Eating Behaviours in China: A Narrative Review by Jianlin Xu

“…This review explores the influences of family and school members on children in China, in order to promote healthy eating behaviours among children and prevent childhood malnutrition in the Global South. Family members and school members are defined as parents, guardians (such as grandparents and other relatives), siblings, peers, and teachers. …”
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Transnationalism and Financial Crisis: The Hampered Migration Projects of Female Domestic Workers in Spain by Zenia Hellgren, Inma Serrano

“…Migrants who move from the Global South or East to work in low-wage sectors such as construction, agriculture or domestic services in wealthier countries may contribute both to growth in the receiving countries and socio-economic development in their countries of origin. …”
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<i>HESS Opinions</i> "Urgent water challenges are not sufficiently researched" by L. P. Darvis, J. Gupta, P. van der Zaag

“…On the one hand, we should promote the global South to create its own research biases and allow it to develop alternative solutions. …”
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Applying a conceptual framework for effective implementation of on-farm greenhouse gas mitigation: Evaluation of knowledge exchange methods in Wales and Uruguay by Kipling, Richard P, Becoña, Gonzalo

“…Here, KE activities undertaken by publicly funded extension services in Wales (in the global north) and Uruguay (in the global south) were compared using a previously developed conceptual framework. …”

Access, Universal Design and the Sustainability of Teaching Practices: a Powerful Synchronicity of Concepts at a Crucial Conjuncture for Higher Education by Frederic Fovet

“…The outcomes are particularly relevant for the Global South in that it may encourage Higher Education institutions in developing countries to avoid the temporary appeal of medical model based measures of inclusion and the precedents set in the Global North over the last two decades, and to focus instead on social model based policies that seek the development of sustainable and inclusive teaching practices from the onset. …”
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A digital turn for urban management? Residents' perception and utilisation of the digital property address system in Accra, Ghana by Stephen Leonard Mensah, Louis Kusi Frimpong, Seth Asare Okyere, Stephen Kofi Diko, Seth Barnie Enning, Matthew Abunyewah, Joshua Mawutor Attigah

“…Rapid urbanisation and its associated challenges in Global South countries have necessitated the use of digital technologies in urban management. …”
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Building capacities for oriented innovation: Argentina’s response to COVID-19 from a gender perspective by Leila Mucarsel, Ana Clara Barile, Meera Bhat

“…The objective is to understand which capabilities are key to address complex social issues in the Global South and how they can be nurtured. Through a theoretical framework that articulates the literature on “dynamic public sector capacities” and “state capacities” in Latin America – and the application of a qualitative methodology (case study), we find that state capacities were strengthened by reconfiguring pre-existing resources based on a government project, collective leadership, and a series of institutional and political innovations in the context of the rise of regional feminisms. …”
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