Third World Quarterly

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Volume 43, issue 12, 2022

The end of the security–development nexus? Reflections from counterinsurgency in north-eastern Nigeria pp. 2757-2774

Sara de Simone and Alessio Iocchi

Election, ethnic voting and regime change in The Gambia pp. 2775-2790

Alieu B. Sanneh

African Ubuntu and Sustainable Development Goals: seeking human mutual relations and service in development pp. 2791-2810

Dorine E. van Norren

Reintegration of former Boko Haram members and combatants in Nigeria: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of community members’ experiences of trauma pp. 2811-2829

Tarela Juliet Ike, Dung Ezekiel Jidong, Mieyebi Lawrence Ike, Christopher Francis and Evangelyn Ebi Ayobi

Contradiction and restructuring in the Belt and Road Initiative: reflections on China’s pause in the ‘Go world’ pp. 2830-2851

Pádraig Carmody and Joel Wainwright

Maritime strategy in Africa: strategic flaws exposing Africa to vulnerabilities from food insecurity to external domination pp. 2852-2868

Manu Lekunze

Continuity through change: populism and foreign policy in Turkey pp. 2869-2887

Hakkı Taş

BRICS member states as norm entrepreneurs: worldviews and bids for power in global health and world energy governance pp. 2888-2906

Clarisa Giaccaglia and María Noel Dussort

The ghost of Hernán Cortés: the colonial heritage in the Americas in the Cold War and post-Cold War era pp. 2907-2926

Mark T. Berger

Volume 43, issue 11, 2022

The everyday lives of drugs pp. 2545-2556

Maziyar Ghiabi

Critique of everyday narco-capitalism pp. 2557-2576

Maziyar Ghiabi

Mangling life trajectories: institutionalised calamity and illegal peasants in Colombia pp. 2577-2596

Francisco Gutiérrez-Sanín

Modes of governance and the everyday lives of illicit drug producers in Afghanistan pp. 2597-2617

Jan Koehler, Jasmine Bhatia and Ghulam Rasool Mosakhel

The intimacies of drug dealing: narcotics, kinship and embeddedness in Nicaragua and South Africa pp. 2618-2636

Steffen Jensen and Dennis Rodgers

The everyday life and everyday dreams of Kenyan khat traders pp. 2637-2653

Neil Carrier

Entangled lives: drug assemblages in Afghanistan’s Badakhshan pp. 2654-2673

Jonathan Goodhand and Adam Pain

‘Everything peasants do is illegal’: Colombian coca growers’ everyday experiences of law enforcement and its impacts on state legitimacy pp. 2674-2692

Camilo Acero and Frances Thomson

Towards social justice and economic empowerment? Exploring Jamaica’s progress with implementing cannabis law reform pp. 2693-2711

Axel Klein, Marta Rychert and Machel A. Emanuel

Young people’s everyday pathways into drug harms in Shan State, Myanmar pp. 2712-2730

Patrick Meehan, Mandy Sadan, Sai Aung Hla, Sai Kham Phu and Nang Muai Oo

Phantasmal commodities: law, violence and the juris-diction of drugs pp. 2731-2746

Kojo Koram

Epilogue: drugs in war, peace and the everyday pp. 2747-2756

Shaylih Muehlmann

Volume 43, issue 10, 2022

The Global South and global human rights: international responsibility for the right to development pp. 2337-2356

Katherine M. Beall

Adoption, adaptation or chance? Inter-organisational diffusion of the protection of civilians norm from the UN to the African Union pp. 2357-2374

Kseniya Oksamytna and Nina Wilén

Leading sector and dual economy: how Indonesia and Malaysia mobilised Chinese capital in mineral processing pp. 2375-2395

Alvin Camba, Guanie Lim and Kevin Gallagher

Illiberalism and post-conflict settlements with jihadists: a Malian case study pp. 2396-2412

Alexander Thurston

The grey areas of political illegitimacy pp. 2413-2429

Tarek Abou Jaoude

Youth engagement in sweetpotato production and agribusiness: the case of Northern Uganda pp. 2430-2449

Norita Mdege, Sarah Mayanja and Netsayi Noris Mudege

Upside-down diplomacy – foreign perceptions about Bolsonaro’s intentions and initial transformations of Brazil’s foreign policy and status pp. 2450-2466

Daniel Buarque

Citizen assessments of clientelistic practices in South Africa pp. 2467-2487

Eva Wegner, Miquel Pellicer, Markus Bayer and Christian Tischmeyer

Recentring the coloniality of global policing pp. 2488-2508

Lou Pingeot and Colleen Bell

Development practitioners’ emotions for resilience: sources of reflective and transformative practices pp. 2509-2525

Jae-Eun Noh

Becoming an advocate: Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network (APRRN) and the evolution of local NGOs in Asia pp. 2526-2543

Won Geun Choi

Volume 43, issue 9, 2022

Conceptualising eco-violence: moving beyond the multiple labelling of water and agricultural resource conflicts in the Sahel pp. 2075-2090

Ezenwa E. Olumba, Bernard U. Nwosu, Francis N. Okpaleke and Rowland Chukwuma Okoli

South–South cooperation: building productive bridges between Latin America and Africa pp. 2091-2111

Andrea Molinari, Federico Mena and Javier Ghiglione

How internationally funded NGOs promote gender equality in horticulture value chains in Kenya pp. 2112-2128

Emmanuel Kumi and Willem Elbers

Bringing states back into commodity-centric environmental governance: the telecoupled soy trade between Brazil and China pp. 2129-2148

Victor Thives, Niels Søndergaard and Cristina Yumie Aoki Inoue

G-group legitimacy in global governance: rightful membership of rising powers? pp. 2149-2168

Jasper Blom

‘A collective commitment to improving cooperation on migration’: analysis of a thematic consultation session for the Global Compact for Migration pp. 2169-2187

Micheline van Riemsdijk and Marion Panizzon

The Rohingya refugee crisis in Bangladesh: an analysis of the involvement of local humanitarian actors pp. 2188-2208

Mehdi Chowdhury, Nigel L. Williams, Karen Thompson and Georgina Ferdous

Why does segregation prevent conflict in some regions but not others? Interrogating social distance amid ethnic conflicts in Jos, Nigeria pp. 2209-2224

Surulola Eke

Dependent development in the twenty-first century pp. 2225-2243

Adnan Naseemullah

Urban utopia or pipe dream? Examining Chinese-invested smart city development in Southeast Asia pp. 2244-2268

Yujia He and Angela Tritto

Different times, same story: the (un)changing dynamics of structural dependence in Tanzania pp. 2269-2288

Wojciech Tycholiz and Andrzej Polus

Changing paradigms in understanding Chinese imperial law pp. 2289-2305

Yonglin Jiang

Chinese narrative in international development and volunteer tourism: a case study of a Chinese organisation’s practice in Mathare, Kenya pp. 2306-2324

Yi Wang

Facial recognition technology for policing and surveillance in the Global South: a call for bans pp. 2325-2335

Peter Dauvergne

Volume 43, issue 8, 2022

The state of academic (un)freedom and scholar rescue programmes: a contemporary and critical overview pp. 1817-1836

Kudus Oluwatoyin Adebayo

Group styles and humanitarian aid: exploring how group boundaries shape the outcomes of medical mission trips in Jamaica pp. 1837-1853

Katherine Comeau

Exploring dignity in the context of displacement – evidence from Rohingyas in Bangladesh and IDPs in Afghanistan pp. 1854-1874

Palash Kamruzzaman, Kate Williams, Ali Wardak, Mohammad Ehsanul Kabir and Yaseen Ayobi

Connecting families with schools: the bureaucratised relations of ‘accountability’ in Indian elementary schooling pp. 1875-1895

Caroline Dyer, Suraj Jacob, Indira Patil and Preeti Mishra

Observing without reporting: critiquing the failure of election observers to report preemptive electoral prophecies in Nigeria pp. 1896-1914

Patrick Afamefune Ikem and Abiodun Omotayo Oladejo

Totally napse: aspirations of mobility in Essau, the Gambia pp. 1915-1931

Cathy Conrad Suso

Three locals of peace: a typology of local capacities for peace pp. 1932-1949

Lise Philipsen

Beyond core and periphery: the role of the semi-periphery in global capitalism pp. 1950-1969

Gemma Cairó-i-Céspedes and Juan Carlos Palacios Cívico

Digitising biopiracy? The global governance of plant genetic resources in the age of digital sequencing information pp. 1970-1987

Ryan Nehring

India’s business gurus: the World Hindu Economic Forum (WHEF) pp. 1988-2005

Esra Elif Nartok

Institutional design of Ghana and the Fourth Republic: on the checks and balances between the state and society pp. 2006-2024

Clement Sefa-Nyarko

What role do social accountability actors play in resisting media capture in sub-Saharan Africa? Evidence from Ghana pp. 2025-2043

Joseph Yaw Asomah

‘They count us among the dead’: ageing women’s experiences of intergenerational conflict in a changing rural economy in sub-Saharan Africa pp. 2044-2062

Teddy Nagaddya

Occupy the classroom radically pp. 2063-2074

Deanne Bell

Volume 43, issue 7, 2022

Theorising migration politics: do political regimes matter? pp. 1515-1530

Katharina Natter and Hélène Thiollet

When the stars aligned: ideational strategic alliances and the critical juncture of Argentina’s 2004 Migration Law pp. 1531-1550

Susanne Melde and Luisa Feline Freier

Tunisia’s migration politics throughout the 2011 revolution: revisiting the democratisation–migrant rights nexus pp. 1551-1569

Katharina Natter

The side doors of immigration: multi-tier migration regimes in Japan and South Korea pp. 1570-1586

Erin Aeran Chung

Norm-busting: rightist challenges in US and Australian immigration and refugee policies pp. 1587-1606

David Scott FitzGerald and Asher Hirsch

The ‘gold standard’ for labour export? The role of civil society in shaping multi-level Philippine migration policies pp. 1607-1626

Stefan Rother

Across the conceptual divide? Chinese migration policies seen through historical and comparative lenses pp. 1627-1644

Els van Dongen

Migrants and monarchs: regime survival, state transformation and migration politics in Saudi Arabia pp. 1645-1665

Hélène Thiollet

Leaving Africa behind? COVID-19 and global public goods pp. 1666-1686

Dominik Kopiński and Ian Taylor

The politics of aid: discursive boundary-making and the war of position in Greece’s humanitarian landscape pp. 1687-1704

Ashley Witcher

The Palestinian Economic Disengagement Plan from Israel: an opportunity for progress or an illusion? pp. 1705-1723

Ibrahim Fraihat

(Ir)relevant doctrines and African realities: neoliberal and Marxist influences on labour migration governance in Southern Africa pp. 1724-1743

Christopher Nshimbi

A theory of dialectical transnational historical materialism for China’s state capitalism and the China–US rivalry pp. 1744-1764

David Chen

Voices from the periphery: a critique of postcolonial theories and development practice pp. 1765-1782

Nikolas Wagner Bozzolo

Another decolonial approach is possible: international studies in an antiblack world pp. 1783-1797

Farai Chipato and David Chandler

The Chinese approach to peacebuilding: contesting liberal peace? pp. 1798-1816

Xinyu Yuan

Volume 43, issue 6, 2022

Agonistic peace: advancing knowledge on institutional dynamics and relational transformation pp. 1237-1250

Lisa Strömbom and Isabel Bramsen

Women’s dialogic encounters: agonistic listening and emotions in multiple-identity conflicts pp. 1251-1269

Zeynep Gülru Göker and Ayşe Betül Çelik

A case for agonistic peacebuilding in Colombia pp. 1270-1287

Diana González Martín, Hans Lauge Hansen and Agustín Parra Grondona

Suspending the antagonism: situated agonistic peace in a border bazaar pp. 1288-1306

Marko Lehti and Vadim Romashov

Agonistic reconciliation: inclusion, decolonisation and the need for radical innovation pp. 1307-1323

Sarah Maddison

Agonistic interaction in practice: laughing, dissensus and hegemony in the Northern Ireland Assembly pp. 1324-1342

Isabel Bramsen

Disarticulation and chains of equivalence: agonism and non-sectarian movements in post-war Beirut pp. 1343-1360

John Nagle

Agonistic recognition as a remedy for identity backlash: insights from Israel and Turkey pp. 1361-1379

Bahar Rumelili and Lisa Strömbom

Agonistic transitional justice: a global survey pp. 1380-1398

Emma Murphy and Dawn Walsh

A critical (re)reading of the analytical significance of agonistic peace pp. 1399-1407

Rosemary E. Shinko

The impact of open access on knowledge production, consumption and dissemination in Kenya’s higher education system pp. 1408-1424

David Mwambari, Fatuma Ahmed Ali and Christopher Barak

Avatars of colonial and liberal violences: the revelatory character of COVID-19 governance in Colombia pp. 1425-1440

Ariana Fernández, Marcos S. Scauso and Elena B. Stavrevska

Overlooked forms of non-democracy? Insights from hybrid regimes pp. 1441-1459

Claudio Balderacchi

Hiroshima in Egypt: interpretations and imaginations of the atomic age pp. 1460-1477

Hebatalla Taha

Communicating creativities: interculturality, postcoloniality and power relations pp. 1478-1494

Hamza R’boul

ICT for development and the novel principles of the Sustainable Development Goals pp. 1495-1514

Franz-Ferdinand Rothe, Leo Van Audenhove and Jan Loisen

Volume 43, issue 5, 2022

The humanitarian frame of war: how security and violence are allocated in contemporary aid delivery pp. 963-978

Iida-Maria Tammi

Mapping relations between state and humanitarian NGOs: the case of Turkey pp. 979-996

Şerif Onur Bahçecik and Yunus Turhan

Sustainable development goals and capability-based higher education outcomes pp. 997-1015

Melanie Walker

Is the Programme for Results approach fit for purpose? Evidence from a large-scale education reform in Ethiopia pp. 1016-1037

Louise Yorke, Amare Asegdom, Belay Hagos Hailu and Pauline Rose

From economic growth to the human: reviewing the history of development visions over time and moving forward pp. 1038-1055

Juliette Alenda-Demoutiez

The developmental state and its discontent: the evolution of the open government data policy in Taiwan pp. 1056-1073

Terrence Ting-Yen Chen

Fixing the collective action problem in sovereign debt restructuring: significance of Global South solidarity pp. 1074-1092

Salamah Ansari, Deva Prasad M. and R. Rajesh Babu

Assembling Chinese health engagement in Africa: structures, strategies and emerging patterns pp. 1093-1114

Ding Fei

Brazilian alliance perspectives: towards a BRICS development–security alliance? pp. 1115-1136

Zhen Han and Mihaela Papa

Not to mislead peace: on the demise of identity politics in Iraq pp. 1137-1155

Hewa Haji Khedir

Islamic revolutionary ideology and its narratives: the continued relevance of the Islamic Republic’s ideology pp. 1156-1175

Olivia Glombitza

The war on terror in context: domestic dimensions of Ethiopia and Kenya’s policies towards Somalia pp. 1176-1196

Jessica Piombo and Pierre Englebert

Procedural rights for nature – a pathway to sustainable decarbonisation? pp. 1197-1216

Andrea Schapper, Clemens Hoffmann and Phyllis Lee

Crafting constraints: Latin American support for humanitarian-intervention norms pp. 1217-1235

J. Luis Rodriguez

Volume 43, issue 4, 2022

Developmentalism at the periphery: addressing global financial asymmetries pp. 721-741

Barbara Fritz, Luiz Fernando de Paula and Daniela M. Prates

Rethinking recipient agency: what can we learn from Haitian accounts? pp. 742-759

Katarzyna Baran

¡Zapatero, a tus zapatos! Explaining the social engagement of M-19 ex-combatants in education and social work institutions in Colombia pp. 760-778

Simon Pierre Boulanger Martel

Semi-periphery regionalisms in a changing world order: the case of Mercosur and Visegrad Group pp. 779-796

Bernadett Lehoczki

Kazakhstan’s leverage and economic diversification amid Chinese connectivity dreams pp. 797-822

Linda Yin-nor Tjia

Legitimating the Belt and Road Initiative: evidence from Chinese official rhetoric pp. 823-845

Hai Yang

Examining Chinese peasants’ transnational communication patterns and identity negotiations on an Algerian construction site pp. 846-863

Bin Ai

‘Copper and solar’: the gendered politics of service delivery in Solomon Islands pp. 864-878

Kerryn Baker

Deportability, humanitarianism and development: neoliberal deportation and the Global Assistance for Irregular Migrants program pp. 879-897

Corey Robinson

Degrees of peace: universities and embodied experiences of conflict in post-war Sri Lanka pp. 898-915

Ian Russell

Demystifying the causes of the Amhara people’s protest in Ethiopia pp. 916-935

Solomon Molla Ademe

Social movements against Hindutva: analysing their impact on the Indian state’s support for cow protection vigilantism pp. 936-953

Varigonda Kesava Chandra

The bumpy road of peace research: reflections on sharing mistakes in fieldwork pp. 954-962

Karen Brounéus, Prakash Bhattarai and Erika Forsberg

Volume 43, issue 3, 2022

Understanding power in development studies through emotion and affect: promising lines of enquiry pp. 513-524

Tanya Jakimow

Indigenous peoples’ responses to land exclusions: emotions, affective links and power relations pp. 525-542

Sochanny Hak, Yvonne Underhill-Sem and Chanrith Ngin

Solidarity and ‘social jealousy’: emotions and affect in Indonesian host society’s situated encounters with refugees pp. 543-560

Mahardhika Sjamsoe’oed Sadjad

Feeling climate change to the bone: emotional topologies of climate pp. 561-579

Sarah Wright, Jagjit Plahe and Gavin Jack

Intimate technologies for affective development: how crowdfunding platforms commodify interpersonal connections pp. 580-598

Shonali Ayesha Banerjee

Affective politics of Australian development volunteering pp. 599-616

Susanne Schech

Vulnerability as ethical practice: dismantling affective privilege and resilience to transform development hierarchies pp. 617-633

Tanya Jakimow

‘Doing good and feeling good’: how narratives in development stymie gender equality in organisations pp. 634-650

Joyce Wu

Benevolent discipline: governing affect in post-Yolanda disaster reconstruction in the Philippines pp. 651-672

Kaira Zoe Alburo-Cañete

(Dis)comfort, judgement and solidarity: affective politics of academic publishing in development studies pp. 673-683

Kaira Zoe Alburo-Cañete, Shonali Ayesha Banerjee, Sochanny Hak, Tanya Jakimow, Chanrith Ngin, Mahardhika Sjamsoe’oed Sadjad, Susanne Schech, Yvonne Underhill-Sem and Joyce Wu

Refugee flows, foreign policy, and safe haven nexus in Turkey pp. 684-702

Lacin Idil Oztig

Vulnerability and precarity of Palestinian women in the Naqab pp. 703-720

Suhad Daher-Nashif

Volume 43, issue 2, 2022

Strengthening everyday peace formation after ethnic cleansing: operationalising a framework in Myanmar’s Rohingya conflict pp. 289-308

Anthony Ware, Vicki-Ann Ware and Leanne M. Kelly

Protection against autocratisation: how international democracy promotion helped preserve presidential term limits in Malawi and Senegal pp. 309-331

Julia Leininger and Daniel Nowack

Are there still shared values to sustain multilateralism? Discourse in World Trade Organization reform debates pp. 332-351

Julieta Zelicovich

Balancing community rights and national interests in international protection of traditional knowledge: a study of India’s Traditional Knowledge Digital Library pp. 352-370

Martin Fredriksson

Blockchain as a tool to facilitate property rights protection in the Global South: lessons from India’s Andhra Pradesh state pp. 371-392

Nir Kshetri

Imagined inclusions into a ‘green modernisation’: local politics and global visions of Morocco’s renewable energy transition pp. 393-413

Christian Haddad, Cengiz Günay, Sherin Gharib and Nadejda Komendantova

Tunisia’s democratisation process: when ‘consensus democracy’ undermines democratic consolidation pp. 414-431

Adrià Rivera-Escartin

Return migration and the challenges of diasporic reintegration in Nigeria pp. 432-451

Agaptus Nwozor, Segun Oshewolo, John S. Olanrewaju, Modupe Bosede Ake and Onjefu Okidu

‘Bicycles are really important for women!’ Exploring bicycles, gender and development in Nicaragua and Uganda pp. 452-474

Lyndsay M. C. Hayhurst, Mitchell McSweeney, Janet Otte, Emerald Bandoles, Lidieth del Socorro Cruz Centeno and Brian Wilson

Humanitarian fables: morals, meanings and consequences for humanitarian practice pp. 475-493

Myfanwy James

‘Rainbow is not the new black’: #FeesMustFall and the demythication of South Africa’s liberation narrative pp. 494-512

Kristi Heather Kenyon and Tshepo Madlingozi

Volume 43, issue 1, 2022

Measuring global poverty before and during the pandemic: a political economy of overoptimism pp. 1-17

Andy Sumner, Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez and Christopher Hoy

‘France is back’: Macron’s European policy to rescue ‘European civilisation’ and the liberal international order pp. 18-34

Eglantine Staunton

Human capital, risk and the World Bank’s reintermediation in global development pp. 35-54

Benjamin M. Hunter and Jonathan D. Shaffer

Who depends on whom? Uganda’s refugee ‘success story’, corruption and the international community pp. 55-73

Kristof Titeca

Differential treatment for developing countries in the WTO: the unmaking of the North–South distinction in a multipolar world pp. 74-93

Clara Weinhardt and Till Schöfer

High in the sky: Turkish–Argentine South–South space cooperation pp. 94-113

Ariel González Levaggi and Daniel Blinder

Rereading Turkey’s recent history through the lens of rock music: how rock has lost its socio-political edge in neoliberal times pp. 114-130

Hakan Övünç Ongur and Tevfik Orkun Develi

Power mediators and the ‘illiberal peace’ momentum: ending wars in Libya and Syria pp. 131-147

Irene Costantini and Ruth Hanau Santini

Take back your fish: questioning NGO-mediated development in Caquetá, Colombia pp. 148-165

Nicolás Acosta García and Niels Fold

Uneven convergence in India’s development cooperation: the case of concessional finance to Africa pp. 166-186

Barnaby Joseph Dye

The prospects of cross-class alliances in former bureaucratic development societies: comparing Taiwan and Burkina Faso pp. 187-205

Julian Friesinger and Jannis Saalfeld

Expertise at the intersection of technicality and ambiguity: international governance of gender and development pp. 206-224

Özlem Altan-Olcay

Has Xi Jinping made China’s political system more resilient and enduring? pp. 225-243

Steve Tsang and Olivia Cheung

China as a ‘rising power’: why the status quo matters pp. 244-258

Ian Taylor and Zhangxi Cheng

Connecting religious transnationalism and development: charitable giving amongst Zimbabwean Catholics in London pp. 259-277

Thabani Mutambasere

Journalistic routines as factors promoting COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in Pakistan pp. 278-287

Shafiq Ahmad Kamboh, Muhammad Ittefaq and Aoun Abbas Sahi