Faculty perspectives on rewards and incentives for community-engaged work: A multinational exploratory study by Trang Vuong, Amy Newcomb Rowe, Lorlene Hoyt, Carol Carrier

“…Also, filling the information gap between the Global North and Global South may help policy-makers and educators make higher education more civically engaged and socially responsible. …”
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Two decades of rice research in Indonesia and the Philippines: A systematic review and research agenda for the social sciences by Ginbert P. Cuaton, Laurence L. Delina

“…Collecting, synthesizing, and analyzing the different themes and topic areas in rice research since the beginning of the 21st century, especially in the Global South, remain unaddressed areas. This study contributes to filling these research lacunae by systematically reviewing 2243 rice-related articles cumulatively written by more than 6000 authors and published in over 900 scientific journals. …”
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Education in Emergencies: Mapping the Global Education Research Landscape in the Context of the COVID-19 Crisis by Naureen Durrani, Vanessa Ozawa

“…However, the majority of productive countries and institutions are in the Global North, with limited representation from the Global South, except for China. English is the dominant language in publications, and funding agencies from English-speaking countries are the most active. …”
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Adoption and development of OERs and practices for self-directed learning: A South African perspective by Geesje van den Berg, Charlene du Toit-Brits

“…However, despite their vast potential, the promise of OERs has not yet translated into concrete and tangible OER adoption and development in the Global South, and specifically in South Africa. It also seems that the flow of OERs is mostly in one direction, namely from developed to developing country contexts. …”
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Dealing with food safety concerns among urban poor when eating out: social practices in Dhaka, Bangladesh by Md. Latiful Haque, Peter Oosterveer, Raffaele Vignola, Sabrina Rasheed

“…We also underline the need for context-specific policy interventions to ensure food safety in the urban food system of the global south.…”
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Retrofitting, repurposing and re-placing by Liza Rose Cirolia, Nobukhosi Ngwenya, Barry Christianson, Suraya Scheba

“…Across this work, occupations represent a dominant mode of city-building in the Global South. Contributing to this debate on city-making and occupations, this paper departs from an unusual case of South African occupation. …”
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Analyzing Global Commodity Chains and Social Reproduction by Anouk Patel-Campillo

“…While acknowledging that households across the Global Commodity Chain (GCC) are neither spatially segregated (i.e., global North, global South) nor solely spaces of production or consumption, I suggest that households differ in their structural location within a multi-sited capitalist system, subject to their incidence on the instantiation of hierarchical capitalist relations. …”
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Putas y Discas: Sex Work Activism and Disability Justice in Argentina by Leyla Savloff

“…I attended the event as a user taking notes and paying attention to how labor rights, disability justice, and online censorship converge in the Global South to strengthen the solidarity between sex work and disability activists, featuring digital platforms as a potential arena to uphold access intimacy. …”
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Tracing a path to knowledge? Indicative user impacts of introducing a public transport map in Dhaka, Bangladesh by Zegras, P. Christopher, Eros, Emily, Butts, Kuan, Resor, Elizabeth, Kennedy, Stephen, Ching, Albert, Mamun, Muntasir

“…This paper examines one potential use of smartphone technology—mapping public transportation services in a megacity of the Global South. We examine the potential user impacts of introducing a smartphone-generated and analogue-delivered schematic bus map in Dhaka, Bangladesh. …”
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CommunAir: Building Low-cost Community Data Infrastructure with Sensors, Spreadsheets, and Open Datasets by Woo, Wesley

“…In the past few years, air quality in the Global South has become recognized as a significant source of various health problems and general premature death. …”
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Moving safely at night? Women’s nocturnal mobilities in Recife, Brazil and Brussels, Belgium by Farina, L, Boussauw, K, Plyushteva, A

“…A comparative perspective draws out the spatial and temporal embeddedness of un/safety, while at the same time challenges the framing of particular cities and areas as either safe or unsafe (which is particularly damaging when it reproduces simple global North – global South binaries). The paper draws on mixed-method research combining a questionnaire-based survey and a series of interviews with women in Recife and Brussels. …”

Mapping Wikipedia’s geolinguistic contours by Dittus, M, Graham, M

“…This deeply affects how the world is represented on Wikipedia, and by whom: it has been shown that for many countries in the Global South, there are more articles written in English than in their respective native languages. …”

The politics of brokerage and transnational advocacy for LGBT human rights by Thoreson, R, Ryan R Thoreson

“…Based on a year of fieldwork in IGLHRC’s New York and Cape Town offices, I look at the history of IGLHRC, the interactions among brokers and how these shape their daily work, how brokers understand their mandate and the hybridity that it so often requires, and how partnership with groups in the Global South, the production, verification, and circulation of information, and the possibilities and constraints of the formal human rights arena all shape the work that brokers do. …”

Shark and ray research in India has low relevance to their conservation by Gupta, T, Karnad, D, Kottillil, S, Kottillil, S, Milner-Gulland, EJ

“…With global biodiversity currently facing unprecedented losses, it is critical that resources are allocated and used effectively to mitigate these threats, especially in resource-limited tropical countries of the global south. Chondrichthyans (sharks, rays and chimaeras) are particularly threatened by overexploitation, with India being amongst the top fishing nations for these species and a priority region for their conservation. …”

Factors influencing clinician-educators’ assessment practice in varied Southern contexts: a health behaviour theory perspective by Sims, D, Cilliers, F, Lucio-Ramirez, CA

“…The purpose of this study was to explore factors that influence assessment practice of clerkship convenors in three varied low-and-middle income contexts in the global South. Taking assessment practice as a behaviour, Health Behaviour Theory (HBT) was deployed as a theoretical framework to explore, describe and explain assessor behaviour. …”

A global agenda for household water security: measurement, monitoring, and management by Wutich, A, Jepson, WE, Stoler, J, Thomson, P, Kooy, M, Brewis, A, Staddon, C, Meehan, K

“…Far from being a problem of the Global South, recent research shows that water insecurity is very much a global phenomenon — and one that has been, until recently, seriously neglected in the Global North. …”

International Open Access Week: Opening Oxford's climate research by Humphreys, S, Partridge, J, Springmann, M, Mhishi, L, Grecksch, K, Budnitz, H, Omukuti, J

“…</p> <p><ul><li>13:30-13:35 – Introduction – Sarah Humphreys <li>13:35-13:45 – ORA climate portal presentation – Jason Partridge and Andrew Kernot</li> <li>13:45-13:52 – Open for Climate Justice:​ Data on Sustainable Diets and Food Systems – Marco Springmann</li> <li>13:52-13:59 – Colonial Collections and forms of human and environmental degradation: some initial thoughts – Lennon Mhishi</li> <li>13:59-14:06 – Historic narratives, myths and human behaviour in times of climate change – Kevin Grecksch</li> <li>14:06-14:13 – The importance of going electric equitably… and openly – Hannah Budnitz</li> <li>14:13-14:20 – Equity and justice in net zero in the Global South – Jessica Omukuti</li> <li>14:20-14:30 – Conclusion and questions</li></ul></p>…”

Migration and development by de Haas, H, Vezzoli, S

“…Despite significant differences, Mexico and Morocco share a common geopolitical location on the global South-North migration frontier as well as their position as prime source countries of predominantly low-skilled migrants into the US and EU. …”

One year later, why are people still avoiding covid-19 news?: understanding predictors of news avoidance in Indonesia by Yearry Panji Setianto, Puspita Asri Praceka

“…Using news avoidance as the main concept, this research is aimed at examining the critical factors that influence news avoidance in low-choice media environments, particularly in the Global South like Indonesia. Employing a face-to-face survey with 1,000 participants in Banten Province, Indonesia, this study found that younger people with lesser interest in COVID-19 related issues appear more prone to avoid this news, in addition to their level of news overload. …”
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Attitudes and willingness of local communities towards natural urban forest conservation in a rapidly developing Southeast Asia city by Aiman, Arief, Abdul Aziz, Nor Akmar, Saadun, Norzanalia, Lim, Evelyn Ai Lin, Lechner, Alex M., Azhar, Badrul

“…Our findings can inform policy-makers to support better planning of urban green spaces and biodiversity conservation, which are especially important for cities in low and middle income countries in the Global South.…”