Third World Quarterly

1998 - 2026

Current editor(s): Shahid Qadir

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Volume 47, issue 7, 2026

The uses and limits of architecture as soft power in Africa’s international relations pp. 1281-1289

Lloyd G. Adu Amoah, Joanne Tomkinson, Julia Gallagher, Irene Appeaning Addo and Mjiba Frehiwot

China’s ‘subtle ingratiation’ in the Global South: evidence from Zimbabwe pp. 1290-1308

Innocent Batsani-Ncube

Building blocks of soft power: a sociopolitical history of Western schools in Ghana pp. 1309-1328

Kuukuwa O. Manful

Diplomacy of architecture and the Ghana National Mosque Complex: concrete sign of a soft Turkish Imperium? pp. 1329-1352

Lloyd G. Adu Amoah

Architecture, diplomacy and soft power: Israel and Arieh Sharon’s Obafemi Awolowo University campus, Ile-Ife, Nigeria pp. 1353-1376

Adekunle Adeyemo

1,000,000 jobs abroad: balancing numbers and rights in Kenya’s labour migration programme pp. 1377-1395

Jonathan Presley and Evelyn Ersanilli

The impact of war-induced displacement on the academic achievement of university students in Gaza pp. 1396-1416

Ibrahim M. Alsemeiri

Small state, global norm: the challenge of Syrian asylum-seekers in Cyprus pp. 1417-1435

Michael Todd Smith

Procedural (in)justice: unpacking the role of humanitarian aid targeting in shaping host–refugee relations in Lebanon pp. 1436-1457

Kristina Tschunkert

Challenging hegemony in the Global South: radio Dhimsa’s cultural and knowledge interventions pp. 1458-1478

Aniruddha Jena, Bridget Backhaus, Vinod Pavarala and Vasuki Belavadi

The making of the TRT historical-political series: state television and political communication in Turkey pp. 1479-1499

Ioannis N. Grigoriadis and Onur T. Karabıçak

Volume 47, issue 6, 2026

‘Our existence is the resistance’: features of Mapuche slow resistance pp. 1065-1085

Philip Wade, Anders Burman and Mona Lilja

Planned misery in paradise: a justice-centered analysis of the socio-legal exploitation of Puerto Rico pp. 1086-1104

Corliss M. Wilson

Reclaiming capacity from the margins: adjusted sovereignty and strategic agency in postcolonial Martinique pp. 1105-1121

Christophe Providence

Nou Pa Bèt: civic substitution and expressive freedoms in post-state governance pp. 1122-1138

Scott M. Brown, Jempsy Fils-Aime and Paul LaTortue

Your land, my labour: rethinking sharecropping in Türkiye’s tea production pp. 1139-1159

Umut Ulukan and Nihan Ciğerci Ulukan

The impact of transnational networks and diasporic influence on skilled migration: insights from the Albanian context pp. 1160-1176

Xhentila Tataj and Emrah Akbaş

Political economy, institutional work, and AI development trajectory in a developing country: the case of Iran pp. 1177-1197

Ali Babaee and Ebrahim Souzanchi Kashani

Does regional market integration facilitate technological diversification? Evidence from China pp. 1198-1221

Cong Cen and Xiaoyan Lin

Habitus and ideological metamorphosis: unpacking the paradox of Pakistan’s Deobandi madrassahs’ response to Taliban 2.0 pp. 1222-1244

Abdur Rehman Shah, Afsah Qazi and Syed Mujeeb ur Rehman Shah

Exploring coloniality of knowledge in Pakistani public policy pp. 1245-1262

Shahzadi Fatima Ali, Ahmed Waqas Waheed and M. Uzair Hashmi

The Cypriot divide through Western eyes: the discursive construction of Greek and Turkish Cypriots in the British and American press pp. 1263-1280

Hanife Erişen and Nilüfer Türksoy

Volume 47, issue 5, 2026

The Louis Hartz trap redux: rethinking the United States–Republic of Korea relations today pp. 861-877

Taesuh Cha

Sacralised populism and neocolonial discourse: Russia and Türkiye’s challenge to liberal order pp. 878-895

Orhan Gafarli and Julia Roknifard

Partners in preservation: U.S., Iran, and the global politics of counterrevolution in Lebanon pp. 896-917

Jeffrey G. Karam

Stately ambiguities: explaining inconsistent gender policies as authoritarian regime survival in Jordan pp. 918-936

Barbara Schenkel

The (In)Visibility of Equality: A Critique of Islamic-Legal Feminism discourse in Iran pp. 937-956

Zohreh Azizabadi and Arash Heydari

Navigating tradition and modernity: legitimacy and identity strategies of authoritarian regimes in Saudi Arabia and Iran pp. 957-976

Soojin Lee and Hyuck Kim

No longer small? Azerbaijan’s pursuit of middle power status pp. 977-997

Mehmet Fatih Oztarsu and Rovshan Ibrahimov

Turkistan between geopolitical containment and hegemonic dependency: colonial legacies, regional agency and global power shifts pp. 998-1019

Mehmetali Kasım

Continuities and changes in India’s approach to regional cooperation – a three-level analysis pp. 1020-1037

Debashis Nath

Indonesia enters the multipolar era by joining BRICS+: three geopolitical realignment pathways for states as Global South–South cooperation platforms expand pp. 1038-1056

Alexander Waters and Jessica Andriani Putrono

More-than-human mediation in land protection: prayer as analytic pp. 1057-1064

Elane Westfaul

Volume 47, issue 4, 2026

It’s the party system that matters: anti-populism in Argentina’s Cambiemos coalition (2015–2017) pp. 653-672

Soraya Hamdaoui

Divided we stand: gated communities, fear and violence in Guatemala City pp. 673-689

Timo Peeters

Spanish official development assistance to Colombia from 2007 to 2023 pp. 690-709

Miguel Ruiz-Carnero

‘Distance and durability’: food regime transition and agricultural trade restructuring in Latin America (1961–2020) pp. 710-735

Ángel Luis González-Esteban and Elisa Botella-Rodríguez

An agonistic analysis of reintegration of the FARC-EP in the Colombian peace agreement pp. 736-754

Dawn Walsh and Ines Meyer

Rebel social services: the case of the FARC-EP’s health system pp. 755-777

Camilo Eduardo Espinosa-Díaz

Step up, step down, step out: the gendering of community health work in pastoralist Kenya pp. 778-797

Kathy Dodworth and Brenda N. Mukungu

Why not help a Muslim brother? A poststructuralist analysis of the Welfare (Refah) Party’s stance on the Somali intervention in the 1990s pp. 798-814

Ahmet Göksel Uluer

African coups and the limits of electoralism pp. 815-833

Ernest Harsch

The diffusion of the concept of ‘the Global South’ in the press: the case of Africa pp. 834-848

Claude Grasland

China and South America in the Antarctic: divergent motivations and diplomatic alignment pp. 849-859

Meijie Jiang

Volume 47, issue 3, 2026

Settler colonialism and the rhetoric of voluntary migration in Gaza pp. 453-470

Ghassan Elkahlout

Humanitarian aid in Gaza: from lifeline to arena of violence and exclusion pp. 471-487

Bilal Hamamra and Ekrema Shehab

The effects of Israeli policies on Palestinians’ basic needs in the Occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem pp. 488-517

Marta Parigi and Hamid R. Oskorouchi

Perceptions of China in the Middle East and North Africa: an analysis in the context of Israel’s war on Gaza pp. 518-534

Emre Erdemir

Far-right parties and gender policies in contemporary Türkiye pp. 535-555

Ezgi Elçi

Informality and the paradox of legal subjecthood: governing street vendors in Kolkata pp. 556-572

Avishek Ray and Atriya Dey

Self-rule and representation in regional governance: a study of Amhara and Agew communities in Metekel Zone, Benishangul-Gumuz region, Ethiopia pp. 573-587

Wubante Ayalew Dessie, Simeneh Bires Belete and Agenagn Kebede Dagnew

Proxy wars in a multipolar world: mechanisms of strategic influence and power reconfiguration pp. 588-613

Runguo Xu

Escaping the Capitalist Black Hole: dethroning Mammon and liberating water pp. 614-628

Mohsen Nagheeby, Anna Mdee, Jaime Amezaga, Leo Heller, Alan Nicol, Miguel R. Pena-Varon, Mariela Garcia V, Amare Bantider, Ashok Kumar, Zainura Zainon Noor, Wan Asiah Nurjannah Wan Ahmad Tajuddin, Lata Narayanaswamy and Alejandro Figueroa-Benítez

Pluriversality as methodology pp. 629-640

Amaya Querejazu

Prolegomena for technodiversity: on data and indigeneity pp. 641-652

Toni Čerkez and Wasiq Silan

Volume 47, issue 2, 2026

Reworlding feminism and social movements from the Global South pp. 239-252

Kate Law, Kundai Manamere and Ana Stevenson

Sex work and the beerhall: an autoethnography from Chiredzi, Zimbabwe pp. 253-268

Kundai Manamere

Echoes of resistance through the archives: Black women’s leadership in anticolonial struggles in Colombia pp. 269-288

Gloriana Rodriguez Alvarez

A history of ananyamukuta – Shona midwives: identity, roles and development in Zimbabwe, 1880s to 1970s pp. 289-307

Priscillah Machinga

The return of husbands: of male labour returnees and women in Botswana, c.1970–2023 pp. 308-323

Unaludo Sechele

Buy clandestine misoprostol, get feminist advice for free: powerful narratives in women’s digital counterpublics on reproductive rights in South America pp. 324-343

Luciane Leopoldo Belin and Carla Cândida Rizzotto

Al Glitter de Guerra: cyborg movidas, Instagram and feminist protest in Mexico pp. 344-360

Laura Loyola-Hernández

From ‘white slavery’ to ‘female sexual slavery’: the UN and global radical feminism against sex work pp. 361-378

Rosa Campbell and Ana Stevenson

Third World feminism, transnationalism, and international solidarity: the Indian Women’s Charter of Rights and Duties (1945) and the Federation of South African Women’s Charter (1954) pp. 379-399

Annie Devenish

Resisting population control: global women’s health activism and contraceptive controversies, 1980s–1990s pp. 400-418

Carolina Topini

In exile: the office of the African National Congress of South Africa in Sweden pp. 419-433

Emma Elinor Lundin

Solidarity and colonial analogies in Irish republican feminists’ discursive practices, 1890s–1980s pp. 434-451

Sharon Crozier-De Rosa

Volume 47, issue 1, 2026

Ghost projects and the ambiguity of infrastructure development pp. 1-7

Detlef Müller-Mahn, Eric M. Kioko and Theo Aalders

A time for monsters: ghost projects, Gothic Marxism, and the transgressive horror of infrastructure futures pp. 8-24

Theo Aalders and Wangui Kimari

Turkana’s extractive promises in limbo pp. 25-42

Elisabeth Schubiger

New Republic animated by ghosts: ethnographic reflections on project-making in an ‘open’ Egyptian desert city pp. 43-63

Carl Rommel

From ghost projects to grassroots future: the Gwadar Haq Do Tehreek and reclamation of failed development in Gwadar, Balochistan pp. 64-81

Bramsh Khan and Noor Bakhsh

Reviving a ghost project: the long history of the Nyerere Dam in Tanzania pp. 82-103

Emma Athanasio Minja and Detlef Müller-Mahn

Performing a paper park – visions, controversies and side-effects of a transboundary conservation megaproject pp. 104-122

Johannes Dittmann

Spectral governance: hydropower, conservation, and the politics of deferred futures in Martin Brod in Bosnia and Herzegovina pp. 123-140

Özge Can Doğmuş

Ghosted by development: the forgotten farmers of Singur, India pp. 141-161

Biswadeep Bhattacharyya

Ghostly energy futures amidst the imperial ruins in Eastern Indonesia pp. 162-180

Hilman Syahri Fathoni

Sensing, tracing, walking: phenomenological investigations of ruins and afterlives of projects pp. 181-201

Yonatan N. Gez, Carla Bertin, Berenike Eichhorn, Francis Kungu Ngure and Keren Kuenberg

Resurrecting a presumed ghost: the challenges and revival of the Southern agricultural growth corridor of Tanzania in a changing political landscape pp. 202-220

George T. Mudimu, Michael Brüntrup and Khamaldin Daud Mutabazi

Ghost airports: the boom and bust of large infrastructure projects pp. 221-238

Detlef Müller-Mahn, Evelyne Atieno Owino and Theobald Frank Theodory