Third World Quarterly

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Volume 42, issue 12, 2021

Agrarian climate justice as a progressive alternative to climate security: Mali at the intersection of natural resource conflicts pp. 2785-2803

Daniela Calmon, Chantal Jacovetti and Massa Koné

Sovereignty alignment process: strategies of regime survival in Egypt, Libya and Syria pp. 2804-2821

Mustafa Menshawy

India as a ‘crypto-ethnic democracy’: the dynamics of ‘control’ in relation to peripheral ethnic minorities pp. 2822-2840

Jugdep S. Chima

Does effective altruism drive private cross-border aid? A qualitative study of American donors to grassroots INGOs pp. 2841-2862

Susan Appe and Ayelet Oreg

Participatory art for navigating political capabilities and aspirations among rural youth in Zimbabwe pp. 2863-2882

Wadzanai Faith Mkwananzi, Firdevs Melis Cin and Tendayi Marovah

From Red Sea to the Nile: water, power, and politics in Northeast Africa pp. 2883-2901

Kaleb Demerew

Agency and governance in European Union international development pp. 2902-2919

Ileana Daniela Serban

Female embodiment and patriarchal bargains: a context-specific perspective on female politicians in Pakistan pp. 2920-2938

Mariam† Mohsin and Jawad Syed

Time to live well: well-being and time affluence for sustainable development pp. 2939-2955

Hans-Jürgen Burchardt and Jan Ickler

Disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) after proxy wars: reconceptualising the consequences of external support pp. 2956-2973

Andrew Mumford

Reading development failure: experts and experiments at the bottom of the pyramid in Cape Town pp. 2974-2992

Andrea Pollio

Transnational political economic structures: explaining transnational environmental movements against dams in the lower Mekong region pp. 2993-3011

Sokphea Young and Sophal Ear

‘We will memorise our home’: exploring settler colonialism as an interpretive framework for Kashmir pp. 3012-3029

Samreen Mushtaq and Mudasir Amin

How should one read Trump’s map of the ‘deal of the century’? pp. 3030-3050

Ghazi-Walid Falah

Understanding oscillations in Turkish foreign policy: pathways to unusual middle power activism pp. 3051-3069

Mustafa Kutlay and Ziya Öniş

Militarised peacekeeping: lessons from the Democratic Republic of the Congo pp. 3070-3086

Jenna Russo

Volume 42, issue 11, 2021

Decolonising child studies: development and globalism as orientalist perspectives pp. 2487-2504

Lucia Rabello de Castro

Orientalism in a globalised world: Said in the twenty-first century pp. 2505-2520

Ahmad H. Sa’di

Orientalism in war and peace: the politics of academic scholarship during the long twentieth century pp. 2521-2537

David Nugent

Reclaiming partnership – ‘rightful resistance’ in a Norths/Souths cooperation pp. 2538-2551

Alena Sander

Practising what they preach? Development NGOs and the EU’s Emergency Trust Fund for Africa pp. 2552-2571

Balazs Szent-Ivanyi

Land appropriation, customary tenure and rural livelihoods: gold mining in Ghana pp. 2572-2592

Albert Ayinpoya Akafari, Gumataw Kifle Abebe, Giuliano Martiniello, Jad Chaaban and Ali Chalak

Translating sustainable fishing norms: the EU’s external relations with Ghana pp. 2593-2610

Ruji Auethavornpipat

Why veterans lose: the decline of retired military officers in Myanmar’s post-junta elections pp. 2611-2628

Renaud Egreteau

The authoritarian turn of middle powers: changes in narratives and engagement pp. 2629-2650

Anna Grzywacz and Marcin Florian Gawrycki

Doing business under the framework of disorder: illiberal legalism in Indonesia pp. 2651-2668

Abdil Mughis Mudhoffir and Rafiqa Qurrata A’yun

Behind the scenes of science in action: a ‘replication in context’ of a randomised control trial in Morocco pp. 2669-2689

Florent Bédécarrats, Isabelle Guérin, Solène Morvant-Roux and François Roubaud

Challenging stories about child domestic work: evidence from South-West Nigeria pp. 2690-2705

Peter Olayiwola

The geopolitics of bare life in 1970s Bangladesh pp. 2706-2723

Naomi Hossain

The rise of the Global South and the rise in carbon emissions pp. 2724-2746

Harald Fuhr

Refugee commodification: the diffusion of refugee rent-seeking in the Global South pp. 2747-2766

Luisa F. Freier, Nicholas R. Micinski and Gerasimos Tsourapas

Dynamics of global asymmetries: how migrant remittances (re-)shape North–South relations pp. 2767-2784

Hannes Warnecke-Berger

Volume 42, issue 10, 2021

Revisiting the local turn in peacebuilding – through the emerging urban approach pp. 2209-2226

Kristin Ljungkvist and Anna Jarstad

Everyday peace and conflict: (un)privileged interactions in Kirkuk, Iraq pp. 2227-2246

Dylan O’Driscoll

How do refugees navigate the UNHCR’s bureaucracy? The role of rumours in accessing humanitarian aid and resettlement pp. 2247-2264

Derya Ozkul and Rita Jarrous

The paradox of competing connectivity strategies in Asia pp. 2265-2281

Johannes Plagemann, Sreeradha Datta and Sinan Chu

Religion and development: integral ecology and the Catholic Church Amazon Synod pp. 2282-2299

Séverine Deneulin

An exit without strategy: learning from the Soviet Bloc’s retreat from the Horn of Africa and Central America pp. 2300-2316

Radoslav Yordanov

The 2017 independence referendum and the political economy of Kurdish nationalism in Iraq pp. 2317-2333

Nicola Degli Esposti

How local political economy dynamics are shaping the Belt and Road Initiative pp. 2334-2352

Neil Loughlin and Mark Grimsditch

South–South cooperation resilience in Brazil: presidential leadership, institutions and bureaucracies pp. 2353-2371

Michelle Morais de Sá e Silva

International cooperation in peacebuilding: stakeholder interaction in Colombia pp. 2372-2392

Juana García Duque and Juan Pablo Casadiego

The turn from peacebuilding to stabilisation: Colombia after the 2018 presidential election pp. 2393-2412

Giulia Piccolino and Krisna Ruette-Orihuela

Ecology, security and international action: beyond sanctions on North Korea pp. 2413-2433

JeongWon Bourdais Park and Brian Bridges

From colonial subjects to post-colonial citizens? Considerations for a contemporary study of Black México pp. 2434-2450

Anthony Russell Jerry

There is life beyond the European Union: revisiting the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States pp. 2451-2468

Maurizio Carbone

Martyrs as a conduit for legitimacy – explaining Iran’s foreign policy towards Syria pp. 2469-2485

Hanlie Booysen

Volume 42, issue 9, 2021

The ‘Global South’ in the study of world politics: examining a meta category pp. 1923-1944

Sebastian Haug, Jacqueline Braveboy-Wagner and Günther Maihold

China, India and the pattern of G20/BRICS engagement: differentiated ambivalence between ‘rising’ power status and solidarity with the Global South pp. 1945-1962

Andrew F. Cooper

Locating the ‘South’ in China’s connectivity politics pp. 1963-1981

Paul Joscha Kohlenberg and Nadine Godehardt

Unequal institutions in the longue durée: citizenship through a Southern lens pp. 1982-2000

Manuela Boatcă

The ‘Global South’ as a relational category – global hierarchies in the production of law and legal pluralism pp. 2001-2017

Tobias Berger

A Thirdspace approach to the ‘Global South’: insights from the margins of a popular category pp. 2018-2038

Sebastian Haug

International relations and the ‘Global South’: from epistemic hierarchies to dialogic encounters pp. 2039-2054

Siddharth Tripathi*

Cities as transnational climate change actors: applying a Global South perspective pp. 2055-2073

Florian Koch

Climate and security: UN agenda-setting and the ‘Global South’ pp. 2074-2085

Adriana Erthal Abdenur

Beyond the single story: ‘Global South’ polyphonies pp. 2086-2095

Laura Trajber Waisbich, Supriya Roychoudhury and Sebastian Haug

Social indexology, neoliberalism and racialised metrics: legitimising the ‘inferiority’ of Global South countries pp. 2096-2114

Steven Ratuva

A new Chinese modernity? The discourse of Eco-civilisation applied to the belt and road initiative pp. 2115-2132

Robert Weatherley and Vanessa Bauer

Kurdish women’s struggles with gender equality: from ideology to practice pp. 2133-2151

Nadje Al-Ali and Latif Tas

The union has reoriented towards entrepreneurship: neoliberal solidarities on Zambia’s Copperbelt pp. 2152-2171

Thomas McNamara

The political economy of Norwegian peacemaking in Myanmar’s peace process pp. 2172-2188

Chiraag Roy, Anthony Ware and Costas Laoutides

Exploring gendered change: concepts and trends in gender equality assessments pp. 2189-2208

Jess MacArthur, Naomi Carrard and Juliet Willetts

Volume 42, issue 8, 2021

Science and flags: deconstructing Turkey’s Antarctic strategy pp. 1661-1678

Lerna K. Yanık and H. Emrah Karaoğuz

Pandemics and the punitive regulation of the weak: experiences of COVID-19 survivors from urban poor communities in the Philippines pp. 1679-1695

Jaye de la Cruz Bekema

International assistance after conflict: health, transitional justice and opportunity costs pp. 1696-1714

Geoffrey Swenson and Johannes Kniess

Domestic humanitarianism: the Mission France of Médecins Sans Frontières and Médecins du Monde pp. 1715-1732

Tine Hanrieder and Claire Galesne

Data securitisation: the challenges of data sovereignty in India pp. 1733-1750

Maximiliano Facundo Vila Seoane

The rise and fall of the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition: a tale of two discourses pp. 1751-1769

Dagmar Milerová Prášková and Josef Novotný

Extractive capital and multi-scalar environmental politics: interpreting the exit of Rio Tinto from the diamond fields of Central India pp. 1770-1787

Arnab Roy Chowdhury and Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt

Infrastructure violence and retroliberal development: connectivity and dispossession in Laos pp. 1788-1808

Kearrin Sims

Tshombe’s secessionist state of Katanga: agency against the odds pp. 1809-1828

Colin Hendrickx

New extractivism and failed development in Azerbaijan pp. 1829-1848

Galib Bashirov

Offering space at the table: the work of hosting US study abroad students in Northern Thailand pp. 1849-1865

Lauren Collins

Dispossession and the militarised developer state: financialisation and class power on the agrarian–urban frontier of Islamabad, Pakistan pp. 1866-1884

Aasim Sajjad Akhtar and Ammar Rashid

Sub-Saharan Africa’s desire for liberal democracy: civil society to the rescue? pp. 1885-1902

Nicola de Jager

Whose and what aid securitisation? An analysis of EU aid narratives and flows pp. 1903-1922

Iliana Olivié and Aitor Pérez

Volume 42, issue 7, 2021

Bringing the developmental state back in: explaining South Korea’s successful management of COVID-19 pp. 1397-1416

Rajiv Kumar

A ‘data realm’ for the Global South? Evidence from Indonesia pp. 1417-1435

Jacqueline Hicks

‘Barbarising’ China in American trade war discourse: the assault on Huawei pp. 1436-1454

Yongjin Zhang

Taking foreign aid and decoupling seriously: a framework for research pp. 1455-1474

Liam Swiss and Princess C. Ilonze

Registered NGOs and advocacy for women in Iran pp. 1475-1488

Shahram Akbarzadeh, Rebecca Barlow and Sanaz Nasirpour

Managing the humanitarian micro-space: the practices of relief access in Syria pp. 1489-1506

Lisa Dorith Kool, Jan Pospisil and Roanne van Voorst

Revisiting the moderation controversy with space and class: the Tunisian Ennahda pp. 1507-1523

Hasret Dikici Bilgin

Populism, violence and authoritarian stability: necropolitics in Turkey pp. 1524-1543

Ihsan Yilmaz and Omer F. Erturk

Do regional powers prioritise their regions? Comparing Brazil, South Africa and Turkey pp. 1544-1565

Rafael Mesquita and Jia Huei Chien

The plurinational state and Bolivia’s formación abigarrada pp. 1566-1582

Aaron Augsburger

Qatari ethnopolitical entrepreneurs during the blockade: the further consolidation of national identity pp. 1583-1600

Waleed Serhan

Uneven but not combined development: rural industrialisation on the East Coast of China pp. 1601-1624

Xi Li and Chun-Yi Lee

Promoting Northern Ireland’s peacebuilding experience in Palestine–Israel: normalising the status quo pp. 1625-1643

Brendan Ciarán Browne and Elaine Bradley

Colonial capitalism, boundary demarcation and imperial placemaking in South Arabia pp. 1644-1659

Charles Alton Sills

Volume 42, issue 6, 2021

Examining the promise of ‘the local’ for improving gender equality in agriculture and climate change adaptation pp. 1135-1156

Mariola Acosta, Margit van Wessel, Severine van Bommel and Peter H. Feindt

Understanding the motivations and roles of national development experts in Ghana: ‘We do all the donkey work and they take the glory’ pp. 1157-1175

Emmanuel Kumi and Palash Kamruzzaman

The political economy of neoliberalism in Brazil: towards a Polanyian approach pp. 1176-1195

Pedro Perfeito da Silva and Julia Veiga Vieira Mancio Bandeira

Corporate labour standards and work quality: insights from the agro-export sector of Guanajuato, Central Mexico pp. 1196-1212

Jaime Hoogesteger and Gaya Massink

Democracy in postcolonial Ghana: tropes, state power and the defence committees pp. 1213-1232

Paul Emiljanowicz and Bonny Ibhawoh

Commodification of family lands and the changing dynamics of access in Ghana pp. 1233-1251

Adwoa Yeboah Gyapong

When does class matter? Unequal representation in Indonesian legislatures pp. 1252-1275

Eve Warburton, Burhanuddin Muhtadi, Edward Aspinall and Diego Fossati

Recognition of states and colonialism in the twenty-first century: Western Sahara and Palestine in Sweden’s recognition practice pp. 1276-1294

Emile Badarin

‘Westoxication’ and resistance: the politics of dance in Iran #dancingisnotacrime pp. 1295-1313

Ghoncheh Tazmini

Outsiders to urban-centric growth: the dual social exclusion of migrant tenant farmers in China pp. 1314-1329

Yingyan Xu, Bingqin Li and Xiaoxing Huang

How instability creates stability: the survival of democracy in Vanuatu pp. 1330-1346

Wouter Veenendaal

Localisation or deglobalisation? East Asia and the dismantling of liberal humanitarianism pp. 1347-1364

Oscar A. Gómez

Wartime protected area governance: the case of Colombia’s Alto Fragua Indiwasi National Park pp. 1365-1383

Julia Gorricho and Markus Schultze-Kraft

A just alternative to litigation: applying restorative justice to climate-related loss and damage pp. 1384-1395

Stacy-ann Robinson and D’Arcy Carlson

Volume 42, issue 5, 2021

Colonial legacies, postcolonial ‘selfhood’ and the (un)doing of Africa pp. 867-881

Swati Parashar and Michael Schulz

The cognitive empire, politics of knowledge and African intellectual productions: reflections on struggles for epistemic freedom and resurgence of decolonisation in the twenty-first century pp. 882-901

Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni

The coloniality of power in postcolonial Africa: experiences from Nigeria pp. 902-921

Akinbode Fasakin

European migration to Africa and the coloniality of knowledge: the Portuguese in Maputo pp. 922-938

Lisa Åkesson

International peacebuilding and local contestations of notions of human rights in Acholi in Northern Uganda pp. 939-955

Paul Omach

Promotion of the rule of law: reinforcing domination through the internationalisation of legal norms pp. 956-975

Mohamed Sesay

(Un)doing development: a postcolonial enquiry of the agenda and agency of NGOs in Africa pp. 976-995

Yimovie Sakue-Collins

Building on the ruins of empire: the Uganda Railway and the LAPSSET corridor in Kenya pp. 996-1013

Johannes Theodor Aalders

Colonial legacies and contemporary commercial farming outcomes: sugarcane in Eastern Uganda pp. 1014-1032

Kassim Mwanika, Andrew Ellias State, Peter Atekyereza and Torun Österberg

Schools with invisible fences in the British Southern Cameroons, 1916–1961: colonial curriculum and the ‘other’ side of modernist thinking pp. 1033-1051

Roland Ndille

The relational legacies of colonialism: peace education and reconciliation in Rwanda pp. 1052-1068

Michael Schulz and Ezechiel Sentama

An imaginary line? Decolonisation, bordering and borderscapes on the Ghana–Togo border pp. 1069-1086

Edem Adotey

Transnational choices and anti-apartheid resistance: African–Chinese movements pp. 1087-1104

Rirhandu Mageza-Barthel

The ‘state’ of postcolonial development: China–Rwanda ‘dependency’ in perspective pp. 1105-1123

Alpha Furbell Lisimba and Swati Parashar

A multitude of decolonial metropoles – what navigation for commonality and unity? pp. 1124-1133

Stephen Chan

Volume 42, issue 4, 2021

Framing and movement outcomes: the #BringBackOurGirls movement pp. 641-660

Temitope B. Oriola

Rethinking reintegration in Nigeria: community perceptions of former Boko Haram combatants pp. 661-678

Tarela Juliet Ike, Danny Singh, Dung Ezekiel Jidong, Sean Murphy and Evangelyn Ebi Ayobi

Challenging inequality in Kenya, Mexico and the UK pp. 679-698

Anna Barford

Revisiting agrarian questions of capital: examining diversification by capitalist farmers in Punjab, India pp. 699-716

Shreya Sinha

The UAE’s foreign policymaking in Yemen: from bandwagoning to buck-passing pp. 717-735

Betul Dogan-Akkas

Losing currency? The shifting landscape of the CFA franc zones pp. 736-754

James Wilson

Problems of foreign service and diplomacy in the post-Soviet context: the case of Armenia pp. 755-774

Vahram Ter-Matevosyan and Anna Drnoian

The return of oligarchy? Threats to representative democracy in Latin America pp. 775-792

Maxwell A. Cameron

Anti-populist coups d’état in the twenty-first century: reasons, dynamics and consequences pp. 793-811

Toygar Sinan Baykan, Yaprak Gürsoy and Pierre Ostiguy

Economic restructuring and migrant workers’ coping strategies in China’s Pearl River Delta pp. 812-830

Xu Wang, Chris King-Chi Chan and Linchuan Yang

The technocratic barrier to wage policy: theoretical insights from the Chilean Concertación pp. 831-854

Juan A. Bogliaccini

Time for a change: the ethics of student-led human subjects research on political violence pp. 855-866

Kristine Eck and Dara Kay Cohen

Volume 42, issue 3, 2020

‘What is to be done?’ Rethinking socialism(s) and socialist legacies in a postcolonial world pp. 449-464

Harry Verhoeven

Indonesian socialism of the 1950s: from ideology to rhetoric pp. 465-482

Kevin W. Fogg

Trade union education in former French Africa (1959–1965): ideological transmission and the role of French and Italian communists pp. 483-502

Gabriele Siracusano

Arab encounters with Maoist China: transnational journeys, diasporic lives and intellectual discourses pp. 503-524

Mohammed Turki Alsudairi

Left turn to legalism: fact-finding inquiries as political critique in 1970s India pp. 525-542

Ankita Pandey

Free to decide their destiny? Indigenous resistance to external forms of socialist modernity in Siad Barre’s Somalia pp. 543-559

Radoslav Yordanov

The party and the gun: African liberation, Asian comrades and socialist political technologies pp. 560-581

Harry Verhoeven

‘Just another African country’: socialism, capitalism and temporality in Mozambique pp. 582-598

Jason Sumich

Indonesia’s missing Left and the Islamisation of dissent pp. 599-617

Vedi R. Hadiz

The legacies of Marx and Lenin in Vietnam: a historical and regional perspective pp. 618-629

Tuong Vu

Ambivalent successes, magnificent failures and historical afterlives: a postscript to Marx and Lenin in Africa and Asia pp. 630-640

Julia C. Strauss

Volume 42, issue 2, 2020

A Caribbean perspective on China–Caribbean relations: global IR, dependency and the postcolonial condition pp. 219-238

Ruben Gonzalez-Vicente and Annita Montoute

The myth of ‘debt-trap diplomacy’ and realities of Chinese development finance pp. 239-253

Ajit Singh

Digital4development? European data protection in the Global South pp. 254-273

Beata Paragi

Asia Bibi v. The State: the politics and jurisprudence of Pakistan’s blasphemy laws pp. 274-291

Imran Ahmed

Reproduction and convertibility: examining wealth inequalities in South Africa pp. 292-311

Andrzej Polus, Dominik Kopiński and Wojciech Tycholiz

Iran’s strategic culture: the ‘revolutionary’ and ‘moderation’ narratives on the ballistic missile programme pp. 312-328

Mohammad Eslami and Alena Vysotskaya Guedes Vieira

Sustainable sanitation jobs: prospects for enhancing the livelihoods of pit-emptiers in Bangladesh pp. 329-347

Mariam Zaqout, Sally Cawood, Barbara E. Evans and Dani J. Barrington

Change and stability at the World Bank: inclusive practices and neoliberal technocratic rationality pp. 348-365

Maïka Sondarjee

A conditional norm: chemical warfare from colonialism to contemporary civil wars pp. 366-384

Güneş Murat Tezcür and Doreen Horschig

Deconstructing the local in peacebuilding practice: representations and realities of Fambul Tok in Sierra Leone pp. 385-401

Laura S. Martin

Health as a bridge to peace in Myanmar’s Kayin State: ‘working encounters’ for community development pp. 402-420

Anne Décobert

From livelihoods to leisure and back: refugee ‘self-reliance’ as collective practices in Lebanon, India and Greece pp. 421-440

Estella Carpi, Jessica Anne Field, Sophie Isobel Dicker and Andrea Rigon

The impact of COVID-19 on the eradication of poverty: an incorrect diagnosis pp. 441-447

Crelis F. Rammelt

Volume 42, issue 1, 2021

New actors and contested architectures in global migration governance: continuity and change pp. 1-15

Micheline van Riemsdijk, Marianne H. Marchand and Volker M. Heins

Narrating an ideal migration world? An analysis of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration pp. 16-33

Antoine Pécoud

Between refugee protection and migration management: the quest for coordination between UNHCR and IOM in the Asia-Pacific region pp. 34-51

Sebastien Moretti

EU migration management in the Sahel: unintended consequences on the ground in Niger? pp. 52-67

Morten Bøås

New architectures for migration governance: NAFTA and transnational activism around migrants’ rights pp. 68-85

Christina Gabriel and Laura Macdonald

Managing labour migration in Malaysia: foreign workers and the challenges of ‘control’ beyond liberal democracies pp. 86-104

Joseph Trawicki Anderson

Sheltering as a destabilising and perpetuating practice in the migration management architecture in Mexico pp. 105-122

Cesar E. Merlín-Escorza, Tine Davids and Joris Schapendonk

An inquiry into the digitisation of border and migration management: performativity, contestation and heterogeneous engineering pp. 123-140

Georgios Glouftsios and Stephan Scheel

The caravanas de migrantes making their way north: problematising the biopolitics of mobilities in Mexico pp. 141-161

Marianne H. Marchand

Refugee return and fragmented governance in the host state: displaced Syrians in the face of Lebanon’s divided politics pp. 162-180

Tamirace Fakhoury

Refugee community organisations: capabilities, interactions and limitations pp. 181-199

Zeynep Sahin Mencutek

Criminalisation of kindness: narratives of legality in the European politics of migration containment pp. 200-217

Galya Ben-Arieh and Volker M. Heins