Why has Singapore not achieved a full democratic transition, despite economic growth? A comparative case study of Singapore and Taiwan by Nur Shahira Binte Shahromey

“…However, some countries have still not achieved this standard, especially in the Global South. Southeast Asia specifically is a region that has a variety of political systems. …”
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Governance in a globalized world: the limitations of corporate social responsibility / Krista Bywater by Bywater, Krista

“…Rather than being used to curtail the harmful effects of economic globalization and TNCs, CSR is typically employed to limit governmental regulation and justify increased foreign investment in the Global South (Blowfield 2005). As a result, CSR furthers the neoliberal agenda, which promotes economic globalization and foreign investment as the best means to achieve social and sustainable development.…”
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Are you disabled? Social and cultural factors in understanding disability in Trinidad and Tobago by Rolston, Yansie

“…The research findings and analysis add to the existing disability scholarship by exploring the cultural impositions and social structures that impact on disability experiences in a country of the Global South, and pinpoint some of the limitations present in hegemonic Western discourse when applied in these settings. …”
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Mapping the effectiveness of nature‐based solutions for climate change adaptation by Chausson, A, Turner, B, Smith, A, Seddon, D, Turner, C, Girardin, C, Woroneicki, S, Kapos, V, Roe, D, Key, I, Seddon, N

“…There was also a bias in evidence toward the Global North, despite communities in the Global South being generally more vulnerable to climate impacts. …”

Evaluating the prevalence and spatial distribution of giraffes injured by non-target poaching by Kasozi, H, Linden, DW, Roloff, GJ, Montgomery, R

“…Wire snares are a common poaching technique used in the Global South and are indiscriminate with respect to species, age, and sex of individual animals that they capture. …”

The price of mobility: a criminological exploration of minibus taxis, violence and urban space in South Africa by Schaefer, LE

“…By centering the minibus taxi as the focal point, I hope to bring often-overlooked harms to the forefront, opening up new avenues for criminological inquiry into the role of automobility in shaping patterns of violence, vulnerability and mobility in the Global South.</p>…”

“Girls should be ready for anything”: time, learning and aspiration among hostel girls in Lahore by Arif, YR

“…Against global narratives celebrating the liberatory potential of education and work for supposedly constrained and oppressed Muslim women in the Global South, my thesis shows the pressure placed upon these subjects in the process of becoming groomed, as they experience hardship, humiliation and loneliness and learn to cultivate endurance (bardasht) and patience (sabr) as key attributes of hostellite life. …”

Superimposition: How Indian city bureaucracies are responding to climate change by Bhardwaj, A, Khosla, R

“…City governments are facing complex challenges due to climate change, but those in the global South often have limited capacities and governance arrangements to develop and execute a response. …”

Transnational trauma: trauma and psychiatry in the world and Taiwan, 1945-1995 by Wu, H

“…It argues that such scientific artefacts were not only produced through mutual reference between Eastern and Western experiences, but also measures of instrumental rationality employed by postwar internationalists to engineer their modernity in the Global South.</p>…”

Migration and development: lessons from the Mexico-US and Morocco-EU experiences 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. …”

The global polarisation of remote work by Braesemann, F, Stephany, F, Teutloff, O, Kässi, O, Graham, M, Lehdonvirta, V

“…First, countries are globally divided: North American, European, and South Asian remote platform workers attract most jobs, while many Global South countries participate only marginally. Secondly, remote jobs are pulled to large cities; rural areas fall behind. …”

Urban morphology dynamics and environmental change in Kano, Nigeria by Barau, Aliyu Salisu, Maconachie, Roy A., Muhamad Ludin, Ahmad Nazri, Abdulhamid, Adnan

“…Focusing on the case of Kano, northern Nigeria's largest city, this paper explores the potential of the CHANS framework in the analysis and interpretation of the human-nature interface in cities of the global south. Drawing on the qualitative analysis of graphic information and classical and contemporary literature, the centuries-old spatial morphology of Kano is traced and analysed. …”

From goodwill to good deals: FELDA land resettlement scheme and the ascendancy of the landless poor in Malaysia by Barau, A. S., Said, I.

“…Thus, broadening researchers and policymakers appreciation of the role of analytical dimensions is a major contribution of this study to the current debates on the pro-poor land governance strategies in the Global South. Finally, the study shines some light at the role of land governance in streamlining land development and goals of sustainable national planning.…”

Subjective wellbeing and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: Data from three population groups in Colombia by Lina Martínez, Isabella Valencia, Valeria Trofimoff

“…This data in brief is valuable by contributing records from a country in the global South, a region where information for policymaking and academic research is usually scarce. …”
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Assessing River Basin Development Given Water‐Energy‐Food‐Environment Interdependencies by Robel Geressu, Christian Siderius, Julien J. Harou, Japhet Kashaigili, Laetitia Pettinotti, Declan Conway

“…Abstract Many river basins in the Global South are undergoing rapid development with major implications for the interdependent water‐energy‐food‐environmental (WEFE) “nexus” sectors. …”
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Abundant herds: Accumulation, herd management, and land-use patterns in a conservation area by Michael Bollig, Hauke-Peter Vehrs

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Environmental governance in globally telecoupled systems: Mapping the terrain towards an integrated research agenda by Benedetta Cotta, Johanna Coenen, Edward Challies, Jens Newig, Andrea Lenschow, Almut Schilling-Vacaflor

“…We present the results of a systematic literature review of 120 journal articles on the environmental governance of global flows and their environmental impacts, employing the notion of telecoupling as a common analytical lens.Six themes emerged, which can guide a comparative and policy-relevant research agenda on governing global telecoupling: (1) advancement of problem-centered research (as opposed to studying existing governance arrangements), (2) displacement of environmental burdens from Global North to South from a telecoupling perspective, (3) environmental governance of telecoupling between Global South countries, (4) policy coherence in governing global flows, (5) cross-scalar interactions between private and public governance and (6) combinations of governance arrangements to effectively address environmental problems in telecoupled settings.…”
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A modelling study on quantifying the impact of urbanization and regional effects on the wintertime surface temperature over a rapidly-growing tropical city by Gopinath Nandini, V. Vinoj, Soumya Satyakanta Sethi, H. P. Nayak, Kiranmayi Landu, D. Swain, U. C. Mohanty

“…However, climate action or steps to sustainable growth in cities in the global south are mostly borrowed from general studies at a few large urban agglomerations in the developed world. …”
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Insouciant, powerless or helpless: An assessment of the factors that contribute to the non-compliance with the regulations that protect ecologically sensitive areas in the Greater... by Augustine Chiga Awolorinke, Stephen Appiah Takyi, Owusu Amponsah

“…The rapid urban growth in countries in the global south coupled with weak development control has led to the encroachment of environmentally sensitive areas. …”
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Decolonial Studies, Non-Extractive Methods, and Participatory Action Research in Accounting by Cleia Maria da Silva, Fernanda Filgueiras Sauerbronn, Michel Thiollent

“…Objective: this paper discusses how accounting supports financial capitalism in the Global South through neocolonialist languages and practices, aiming to put forth a decolonial agenda based on non-extractive methodologies to recover alternative knowledge and (re)build new ones. …”
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