Third World Quarterly

1998 - 2025

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Volume 46, issue 18, 2025

Re-thinking the decolonisation of knowledge and dismantling of intellectual imperialism: focusing on epistemic and social justice pp. 2433-2450

Caroline M. Schöpf, Justin Felip D. Daduya, Tamari Kitossa, Bandana Purkayastha and Matthew M. Chew

‘Pagsasariling atin’: the project of an autonomous social science tradition (ASST) and the challenge of scientometrics pp. 2451-2466

Ramon Guillermo

Intellectual imperialism and decolonisation in African studies pp. 2467-2484

Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni

Knowledge hegemonies and autonomous knowledge pp. 2485-2502

Syed Farid Alatas

The iron dome of Eurocentrism: a decolonial reconnaissance of academic imperialism in Pakistan pp. 2503-2518

Shahzeb Khan

Postcolonial Bangladesh and neocolonial assimilative literacy practices: the case of private schools and English language programmes pp. 2519-2537

Firoze Alam

Traversing the intersections of decoloniality and liquid modern consumerism in human trafficking pp. 2538-2556

Archill Niña Faller-Capistrano

On the delusion of disobedience amid coloniality: location Pakistan pp. 2557-2572

Fatima Waqi Sajjad

Decolonising sociology through popular culture-music research: Nigeria’s liberal democracy in focus pp. 2573-2591

Ayokunle Olumuyiwa Omobowale, Olugbenga Samuel Falase, Mofeyisara Oluwatoyin Omobowale and Adebimpe Oluwabukade Adefila

On migrants, violence and the contours of colonised knowledge pp. 2592-2609

Bandana Purkayastha and Farhan Navid Yousaf

Meso-level processes of intellectual imperialism: the disruption of intellectual lineage formation in modern Japan and China by ‘juniority effects’ pp. 2610-2628

Matthew Ming-tak Chew

Volume 46, issue 17, 2025

Ruling through exception: lawfare, securitised warfare and the intermestic logic of authoritarianism pp. 2223-2243

Barış Çağlar

The evolving multilateral defence diplomacy in the Caribbean region: prospects and challenges pp. 2244-2261

Michał Pawiński and Michael Adams

Judicial interventions and religious conflict in India: a constitutional critique from the Global South pp. 2262-2277

Jamal Uddin Choudhury

Understanding the United States Agency for International Development’s relationship with extremism financing pp. 2278-2292

Temitope Peter Ola

Iran in the Whirlpool of the ‘look to the east’ policy: how dignity and wisdom are sacrificed to expediency pp. 2293-2312

Fariborz Arghavani Pirsalami and Ali Dehghan

From Khalisa Sarkar land to land reforms: legal liminality, state control, and resistance in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan pp. 2313-2333

Nadia Ali

Diplomats in uniform – the evolution of Rwanda’s foreign policy and how it became indispensable within a decade pp. 2334-2354

Erik Plänitz

Rethinking comparative African literatures: inward comparison and the reorientation of method pp. 2355-2370

Azzeddine Tajjiou

Sport, consciousness, and epistemic justice: a critical model for decolonising sport-for-development in the Global South pp. 2371-2387

Pedro Danilo Ponciano Núñez

Diaspora mobilisation in the Global South: deterritorialised mobilisation strategies, ‘informal’ Filipino diaspora organisations, and the politics of social welfare protection pp. 2388-2410

Froilan T. Malit

From top-down to locally led: the CSO Research Ecosystem model pp. 2411-2432

Siri Lijfering, B. Rajeshwari and Margit van Wessel

Volume 46, issue 16, 2025

The liberal peace is over and it is not coming back: hybridity and the emerging international peace system pp. 1999-2018

Roger Mac Ginty

The Russia–Ukraine war: understanding the Global South’s vote at the UN and its implications for the current world order pp. 2019-2036

Mahama Tawat

Wartime burial from below: combatants’ responses to combatants’ deaths in Ukraine and South Sudan pp. 2037-2056

Naomi Pendle, Irina Sergeeva and Latjor Dang Yut

El estado es un macho violador: reconsidering the state as a site for peacebuilding pp. 2057-2075

Shauna N. Gillooly

From conflict to cooperation: rethinking pathways towards the resolution of resource conflicts in agropastoral communities in Ghana pp. 2076-2097

Tobias Tseer and Promise Frank Ejiofor

Presidents and diplomacy: ideology’s impact on Brazil’s international forest engagement pp. 2098-2120

Ana Alice O. Tavares and Sarah L. Burns

Young people and climate action in the Niger Delta: an experiment with a theatre workshop pp. 2121-2134

Stephen Ogheneruro Okpadah

Track II diplomacy meets action research: fostering collaborative foreign policy between Türkiye and the EU in North Africa pp. 2135-2155

Pınar Akpınar and Oğuz Nuri Babüroğlu

Triangular Development Cooperation in an era of Sino-Khmer Cooperation and China’s Belt and Road Initiative pp. 2156-2177

Hannah McNicol

Ograyi and Bourdieusian social capital in Afghanistan’s manufacturing sector pp. 2178-2199

Kambaiz Rafi

NGOs and the sociocultural adaptation of refugees: exploring challenges and impact pp. 2200-2221

Cenker Korhan Demir, Jawan Aldaoud and Aynur Türkan

Volume 46, issue 15, 2025

Fragmented multilateralism and international institutions between complexities and challenges pp. 1825-1837

Andrew F. Cooper, Emel Parlar Dal and Samiratou Dipama

‘Authentic’ multilateralism and the stigmatisation of ‘small circles’: China, India, and the contestation over institutional design pp. 1838-1856

Andrew F. Cooper

The United States and fragmented multilateralism: bookending a century of US ambivalence towards formal international organisations pp. 1857-1877

Geoffrey Wiseman

Traditional multilateralism in the shadow of bilateralism: UN emanations in the international investment agreement regime pp. 1878-1897

Yoram Z. Haftel and Tomer Broude

An informal mode for multilateral cooperation: assessing the European Union’s engagements with informal intergovernmental organisations (IIGOs) pp. 1898-1918

Emel Parlar Dal and Nobuhide Mert Matsumoto

Peace and security ad hoc coalitions: engagement of the Global South and the Global North pp. 1919-1941

Cristiana Maglia

Formal frameworks, informal practices: how ASEAN navigates the crisis in multilateralism pp. 1942-1958

Sarah Teo

The European Union and the crisis of multilateralism in an era of uncertainty and power politics pp. 1959-1978

Feride Aslı Ergül Jorgensen and Knud Erik Jørgensen

The untold story: informal intergovernmental organisations in Latin America pp. 1979-1998

Thomas Legler, João Pedro Martins and Anakaren Iniestra

Volume 46, issue 14, 2025

Confronting Epistemic Erasures: decolonising research, fostering resistances and reimagining alternative partnerships pp. 1667-1676

Yafa El Masri

Resisting erasure, defying ‘forgottenness’: Sahrawi knowledge in practice and cultural survival pp. 1677-1694

Jelena Vićentić and Omeima Abdeslam

Decolonising democratic legitimacy: the social movement standpoint and the case of the Homeless Workers’ Movement in Brazil pp. 1695-1714

Livia de Souza Lima

Black Gaze Cinema in Portugal: a transnational counterpublic against erasure pp. 1715-1732

Ana Cristina Pereira

Invisible pasts, erased futures: epistemic erasure in refugee and migrant experiences pp. 1733-1752

Rahime Süleymanoğlu-Kürüm, F. Melis Cin, Edip Asaf Bekaroğlu and Necmettin Doğan

Resisting erasure: queer artistic reclamation in the face of political homophobia pp. 1753-1773

İbrahim Ekrem Sarı

From epistemic erasure to epistemic resistance: autoethnographic reflections on the potential of body mapping in decolonising methodologies pp. 1774-1795

Charlotta S. Sippel and Maudy Ucelo Jiménez

Interrupting whatever seems inevitable: decolonising knowledge to make another experience of ‘we’ pp. 1796-1806

Gisela Carrasco-Miró

Weaving an alternative partnership: a collaborative autoethnography on ‘failing’ to research epistemic freedom pp. 1807-1824

Mariasole Pepa and Dobah Marsala Pamdandi

Volume 46, issue 13, 2025

Against the charge of charity: refugee-led organisations, localisation and decolonising humanitarianism pp. 1543-1564

Merve Erdilmen

Politics, pattern and processes of pseudonym of decolonisation: knowledge production and language fragility in China–Nigeria relations pp. 1565-1586

Abayomi John Aluko

Migration and foreign policies: the case of Iran pp. 1587-1603

Sussan Siavoshi

Paradox of plenty in Nigeria Vision 20: 2020 policy implementation: implications for effective policy execution pp. 1604-1624

Stephen Chinedu Chioke

Beyond poverty: relative deprivation, political parties, and clientelistic networks in Turkey pp. 1625-1646

Hasan Yeniçırak

Gold as something to be proud of? Contradictions of ethical consumerism in artisanal and small-scale gold mining in Latin America pp. 1647-1666

Sandra McKay and Rebecca Hall

Volume 46, issue 12, 2025

Biometric coloniality: digital consensus and the biometric state in Africa pp. 1413-1438

Victor Chidubem Iwuoha and Martin Doevenspeck

The politics of access: vaccine diplomacy, migrant health equity and the COVID-19 response pp. 1439-1460

AKM Ahsan Ullah

Neoliberalism’s antecedent histories and the colonial conjunctures of media and communication pp. 1461-1480

Sanjay Asthana

State strategies and gendered labour: neoliberalism’s impact on Tunisia’s working class composition pp. 1481-1501

Kira Brenner

Governing Kurds through spatial design: Turkey in Afrin pp. 1502-1518

Beste İşleyen

Geography of resistance: rugged terrain and the dynamics of Kurdish National Movement in Iran pp. 1519-1542

Sahar Bagheri

Volume 46, issue 11, 2025

Third World radicals: revisiting scholarship on the radical left in Latin America and the MENA pp. 1267-1279

Khalil Dahbi and Thiago Prates

From strategic offensive to tactical reassembly: visual politics and editorial manoeuvres in Tricontinental and Punto Final magazines (1965–1999) pp. 1280-1304

Matías Marambio de la Fuente and Natália Ayo Schmiedecke

Beyond postcolonial heteronomy: Kurdish question, decolonisation, and the relational time of democratic confederalism pp. 1305-1323

Sara Kermanian

Contemporary fellow travellers: Egyptian Revolutionary Socialists and the theory and political practice of Marxism pp. 1324-1341

Helena Zohdi

Sandinismo perverted: Nicaragua betweeen progressivism and authoritarianism pp. 1342-1360

Fabio Luis Barbosa dos Santos

Beyond orientalism and the privatisation of religion: socialist Islam in the experience of Morocco’s al-Badil al-Hadari pp. 1361-1378

Montassir Sakhi

‘Faith in the revolution’: political-religious experiences in Argentina in the 1970s pp. 1379-1394

Eliana Lacombe

Descension as methodology: Ignacio Ellacuría and Claribel Alegría’s contributions to a Third World leftist praxis pp. 1395-1412

Bradley Hilgert

Volume 46, issue 10, 2025

Reconceptualising activism space in the contemporary Global South pp. 1079-1091

Hosna J. Shewly and Eva Gerharz

The shrinking space for civil society activism in Palestine pp. 1092-1111

Anja Zorob and Anna Paluszek

Strategies of women’s movements to counter backlashes in Pakistan: a case study of Aurat March pp. 1112-1135

Mazhar Abbas, Samee Lashari and Imran Wakil

Decoding the ‘andolanjeevis’: foregrounding ‘reasoned emotion’ as a mobiliser in the Justice for Rohith Vemula movement pp. 1136-1155

Tirthankar Chakraborty

Digital Mapuche activism between decolonisation and digital warfare pp. 1156-1172

Sebastian Garbe

Who’s in the driving seat? The interplay between advocacy organisations and local communities resisting coal mining in rural Kenya pp. 1173-1189

Maaike Matelski

Geopoetics as contentious politics: strategic relevance of the Miya poetry movement against the NRC-CAA in Assam, India pp. 1190-1209

Abu Sufian

‘Must Fall’ movements globally: transnational flows of South African student activism pp. 1210-1228

Antje Daniel and Josh Platzky Miller

Dancing in-between: interstitial feminist defiance in Iran’s public and digital spaces pp. 1229-1248

Rana Dadpour and Hosna J. Shewly

They sold our festival: transnational activism and contested public memory making around Telangana ‘state festivals’ pp. 1249-1266

Sanam Roohi

Volume 46, issue 9, 2025

Cascades of violence to genocide: sovereignty, nationalism and the predicament of the Rohingya of Myanmar pp. 951-969

Klejda Mulaj

The art(s) of conflict disruption in South Sudan pp. 970-986

Sayra van den Berg

Aid sanctions and constitutional order: the US and France’s responses to military coups in Sub-Saharan Africa and the rise of multipolar competition pp. 987-1012

Inesta Brunel Lendzoumbou

Variations in right-wing populism: a comparative study of Türkiye and Brazil pp. 1013-1038

Gülşen Doğan

2021 forest fires on Türkiye’s Sandras Mountain: tensions between centralised management and local response pp. 1039-1058

Nihan Bozok and Mehmet Bozok

From margins to mainstream: pathways to resilience and reform in Lebanon’s urban informal sector pp. 1059-1078

Leila Dagher, Fadi Nicholas Nassar and Ola Sidani

Volume 46, issue 8, 2025

Settler colonialism and Israel: the incarceration of Palestinian children as a central feature of Israel’s settler colonial project pp. 833-851

Lama Alsafi

Unveiling Kuwait’s long-term development assistance to Yemen: a case study of sustained commitment pp. 852-873

Moosa Elayah, Hasan Alawami, Ghanim Alnajjar and Karima Al-Hada’a

How immigration policies sustain authoritarian regimes in Saudi Arabia pp. 874-895

Masaki Matsuo and Shingo Hamanaka

The bureaucratic revolution: the Syrian opposition’s civil registry system pp. 896-912

Marika Sosnowski

Contesting an exclusive citizenship regime: the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and its electoral mobilisation in Batman in the late 1970s pp. 913-931

Joost Jongerden and Francis O’Connor

Interdiscursivity, Kurdish nationalism, and femininity: a feminist critical discourse analysis pp. 932-949

Ferdos Hatami Taher

Volume 46, issue 7, 2025

Decolonising faith: Palestinian Liberation Theology in the context of settler-colonialism pp. 721-736

Emile Badarin

Mechanisms of invisibility: the contradictions of localising and decolonising humanitarian aid pp. 737-754

Jenna Imad Harb

Positive and negative public diplomacy, new concepts to understand public diplomacy strategies in the Arab Gulf states pp. 755-772

Mohammad Salman and Guy Burton

The art of hedging: Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE manoeuvres amid US–China great power competition pp. 773-794

Ali Bakir and Nayef Al-Shamari

Beyond direct contact: reconceptualising ‘acculturation’ in postcolonial Tunisia pp. 795-812

Rumeysa Köktaş and Ali Balcı

From the Garden of Eden to the bachelor’s cemetery: a historical overview of higher education financing in postcolonial Ghana pp. 813-832

Eugenia Ama Breba Anderson

Volume 46, issue 6, 2025

Securitising health in the Occupied Palestinian Territories: the COVID-19 pandemic response and future implications pp. 609-627

Suzanne Morrison, Yara Asi and Mohammed Alkhaldi

Arab intellectuals, ISIS, and the West pp. 628-644

Sami E. Baroudi

Framing ‘love jihad’: nationalists’ discourse construction in a right-wing extremist sub-issue on social media pp. 645-664

Mohammad Amaan Siddiqui

Ideology and the question of agency in Africa’s international relations: the case of Ghana pp. 665-685

Emmanuel Kwaku Siaw

The imperialist roots of Tunisia’s food crisis pp. 686-702

Gianni Del Panta

How inclusive is South Africa’s green economy? A qualitative case study of the Working for Water Programme pp. 703-720

Daniel Basubas, Etienne Nel, David Bek, Rachel Fleener and Tony Binns

Volume 46, issue 5, 2025

Moral geographies: Indian exceptionalism, Africa, and the politics of South–South cooperation pp. 505-522

Meera Venkatachalam and Dan Banik

Neo-Ottomanism, Islam and migrants: the AKP’s battle in North Cyprus pp. 523-537

Doğukan Akdeniz and Ali Dayıoğlu

‘Internal localisation’ and early action: exploring decision-making and power amongst humanitarian actors in South Sudan pp. 538-557

Evan Easton-Calabria

NGOs and romanticisation of the local turn: a (re)appraisal of professional peacebuilding by NGOs in Africa pp. 558-574

Ibrahim Sakawa Magara

Postcolonial ecofeminist responses to the International Labour Organisation’s Just Transition framework pp. 575-589

Sharmini Nair

Epistemic injustice: women poppy cultivators in the opium production discourse of Afghanistan pp. 590-608

Noorin Nazari

Volume 46, issue 4, 2025

Understanding Iran’s policy towards the Ukraine war: the significance of ideational factors and factional rivalries pp. 391-411

Özgür Kızılyurt

Institutional evolution of Saudi Arabia’s foreign aid: roles, responsibilities, and shifts in governmental entities pp. 412-428

Fahad Albylwi

Turkey’s Asia Anew initiative: the limits of middle power activism? pp. 429-445

Çağdaş Üngör

Public intellectuals and the construction of anti-neoliberal hegemony: the case of Grupo Comuna in Bolivia pp. 446-466

Rodrigo Santaella-Gonçalves, Edemilson Paraná and Alfredo Saad-Filho

Feminicides in Peru and Colombia: the role of legal and illegal capitalist relations pp. 467-485

Melisa Becerra Gonzalez and William Avilés

Safety-first unionism: the case of Zambian mine unions pp. 486-503

James Musonda

Volume 46, issue 3, 2025

Unravelling distractions in the discourse of African decolonisation: a critical examination pp. 277-295

Babalola Joseph Balogun and Emnet Tadesse Woldegiorgis

‘The South resists’: the coloniality of Mexico’s National Development Plan pp. 296-315

Debbie Samaniego

The ‘Lilliputian dilemma’ and Nepal’s Quest for strategic autonomy in Indo-Pacific: the allure of hedging pp. 316-334

Arshid Iqbal Dar

Pride and the politics of international defiance: Brazil, the United States, and UN General Assembly Resolution 3379 pp. 335-352

John de Bhal

Turning Walled City Lahore into a spectacle: the unintended consequences of heritage conservation pp. 353-371

Rabia Nadir, Kamal Munir and Shafqat Hussain

International higher education as a soft power tool of Turkish foreign policy: the case of Azerbaijan pp. 372-390

Ayça Ergun, Yasar Kondakci, Merve Zayim-Kurtay and Anar Valiyev

Volume 46, issue 2, 2025

Limits of autocratisation: actors and institutions of democratic resistance and opposition pp. 97-116

Bilge Yabanci, Karabekir Akkoyunlu and Kerem Öktem

Paperwork as statecraft: documents, politics, and bureaucratic agency in street-level organisations pp. 117-135

Erol Saglam

Legalised resistance to autocratisation in common law Africa pp. 136-152

Siri Gloppen and Lise Rakner

The limits of autocratisation in Indonesia: power dispersal and elite competition in a compromised democracy pp. 153-169

Marcus Mietzner

Resistance under confinement: resilience of protests and their limits in authoritarian Turkey pp. 170-192

Mert Arslanalp and T. Deniz Erkmen

Protests for change: mass protests against competitive authoritarian regimes in the Western Balkans pp. 193-214

Lura Pollozhani and Florian Bieber

Safeguarding democracy from the outside in: transnational democratic networks against autocratisation in contemporary Brazil pp. 215-236

Guilherme Casarões, Déborah Silva do Monte and Matheus de Carvalho Hernandez

Formal yet ineffective opposition coordination under competitive authoritarianism: Nation Alliance in Turkey pp. 237-257

Hakan Yavuzyılmaz and Berk Esen

The role of the opposition in autocratisation: the case of Turkey pp. 258-275

Seren Selvin Korkmaz

Volume 46, issue 1, 2025

Behind the trigger: democracy, neoliberalism, and civilian militarism in Latin America pp. 1-19

Saul M. Rodriguez

When diplomacy meets academia: diplomatic non-fiction in Brazil pp. 20-37

Felipe Estre

The curious case of vandals: Brazil’s environmental and regional policies in the Bolsonaro years pp. 38-58

Monika Sawicka

A decolonial approach to Brazilian environmental policy since 1972 pp. 59-78

Rodrigo Machado Vilani, Carlos José Saldanha Machado, Vicente Paulo dos Santos Pinto, Maria Amália Silva Alves de Oliveira and Daniel Fonseca de Andrade

Towards a more inclusive diaspora policy orientation in Africa pp. 79-96

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