Third World Quarterly

1998 - 2025

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Volume 36, issue 12, 2015

The Green Economy in the global South: experiences, redistributions and resistance pp. 2197-2206

Dan Brockington and Stefano Ponte

Four discourses of the green economy in the global South pp. 2207-2224

Carl Death

Tourism and the green economy: inspiring or averting change? pp. 2225-2243

Melanie Stroebel

Suspended redistribution: ‘green economy’ and water inequality in the Waterberg, South Africa pp. 2244-2258

Michela Marcatelli

Extractive philanthropy: securing labour and land claim settlements in private nature reserves pp. 2259-2272

Maano Ramutsindela

Responding to the green economy: how REDD+ and the One Map Initiative are transforming forest governance in Indonesia pp. 2273-2293

Rini Astuti and Andrew McGregor

The neoliberalisation of forestry governance, market environmentalism and re-territorialisation in Uganda pp. 2294-2315

Adrian Nel

Inverting the moral economy: the case of land acquisitions for forest plantations in Tanzania pp. 2316-2336

M.F. Olwig, C. Noe, R. Kangalawe and E. Luoga

Performativity in the Green Economy: how far does climate finance create a fictive economy? pp. 2337-2357

Sarah Bracking

Volume 36, issue 11, 2015

China’s contingencies and globalisation pp. 1985-2001

Jan Nederveen Pieterse

Engaging with globalisation: Chinese perspectives pp. 2002-2022

Debin Liu and Zhen Yan

A reform-minded status quo power? China, the G20, and reform of the international financial system pp. 2023-2043

Ren Xiao

China’s national defence in global security discourse: a cultural–rhetorical approach to military scholarship pp. 2044-2058

Shi-xu

Globalisation as glocalisation in China: a new perspective pp. 2059-2074

Ning Wang

China’s industrial transformation and the ‘new normal’ pp. 2075-2097

Dianfan Yu and Yajun Zhang

From export platform to market provider: China’s perspectives on its past and future role in a globalised Asian economy pp. 2098-2111

Xiao Li and Yibing Ding

Unequal partnerships and open doors: probing China’s economic ambitions in Asia pp. 2112-2129

Jonathan Holslag

Illiberal China and global convergence: thinking through Wukan and Hong Kong pp. 2130-2147

Daniel Vukovich

The new contentious sequence since Tiananmen pp. 2148-2166

Shih-Diing Liu

Voicing the self: discursive representations of Chinese old-generation migrant workers pp. 2167-2182

Qingye Tang and Qing Li

Religion and social stability: China’s religious policies in the Age of Reform pp. 2183-2195

Changgang Guo and Fengmei Zhang

Volume 36, issue 10, 2015

Fragile states and the evolution of risk governance: intervention, prevention and extension pp. 1787-1808

Robert Frith and John Glenn

Perception of the relations between former colonial powers and developing countries pp. 1809-1826

Maciej Kalaska and Tomasz Wites

The moral economy of EU relations with North African states: DCFTAs under the European Neighbourhood Policy pp. 1827-1844

Mark Langan

Regionalism and African agency: negotiating an Economic Partnership Agreement between the European Union and SADC-Minus pp. 1845-1865

Peg Murray-Evans

Building terror while fighting enemies: how the Global War on Terror deepened the crisis in Somalia pp. 1866-1886

Debora Valentina Malito

Organised crime and international aid subversion: evidence from Colombia and Afghanistan pp. 1887-1905

Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic, Denisa Kostovicova, Mariana Escobar and Jelena Bjelica

The post-development impasse and the state in India pp. 1906-1921

Sailen Routray

Culture, community-oriented learning and the post-2015 development agenda: a view from Laos pp. 1922-1943

Kearrin Sims

Stable instability: the Syrian conflict and the postponement of the 2013 Lebanese parliamentary elections pp. 1944-1967

Abbas Assi and James Worrall

The rise of an anti-politics machinery: peace, civil society and the focus on results in Myanmar pp. 1968-1983

Stefan Bächtold

Volume 36, issue 9, 2015

The queer Third World pp. 1611-1628

Ilan Kapoor

The dark(er) side of ‘state failure’: state formation and socio-political variation pp. 1629-1648

Karl Adalbert Hampel

Culture in the post-2015 development agenda: the anatomy of an international mobilisation pp. 1649-1662

Antonios Vlassis

Passive revolution in Brazil: struggles over hegemony, religion and development 1964–2007 pp. 1663-1681

Philip Roberts

and democracy in Brazil pp. 1682-1699

Anthony W. Pereira

Investing in peace: foreign direct investment as economic restoration in Sierra Leone? pp. 1700-1716

Gearoid Millar

Playing in the sandbox: state building in the space of non-recognition pp. 1717-1735

Rebecca Richards and Robert Smith

Towards agonistic peacebuilding? Exploring the antagonism–agonism nexus in the Middle East Peace process pp. 1736-1753

Karin Aggestam, Fabio Cristiano and Lisa Strömbom

China’s development: a new development paradigm? pp. 1754-1769

Jennifer Y.J. Hsu

Winning wars, building (illiberal) peace? The rise (and possible fall) of a victor’s peace in Rwanda and Sri Lanka pp. 1770-1785

Giulia Piccolino

Volume 36, issue 8, 2015

The challenge of the creative Third World pp. 1405-1420

Bruce Gilley

Fair Trade and justice: a comment on Walton and Deneulin pp. 1421-1436

Jerome Ballet and Delphine Pouchain

Motivations for local resistance in international peacebuilding pp. 1437-1452

Sung Yong Lee

Autonomous peasant struggles and left arts of government pp. 1453-1471

Robin Dunford

(Re)conceptualising democracy: the limitations of benchmarks based on neoliberal democracy and the need for alternatives pp. 1472-1492

Maura Duffy

Military twists and turns in world politics: downsides or dividends for UN peace operations? pp. 1493-1509

Thomas G. Weiss and Martin Welz

Patronage, politics and performance: radio call-in programmes and the myth of accountability pp. 1510-1526

Nicole Stremlau, Emanuele Fantini and Iginio Gagliardone

Implementing the human right to water and sanitation: a study of global and local discourses pp. 1527-1545

Madeline Baer and Andrea Gerlak

The making of land ownership: land titling in rural Colombia – a reply to Hernando de Soto pp. 1546-1569

Sergio Latorre

The politics of HIV/AIDS in South Africa: government action and public response pp. 1570-1591

Tom Lodge

Peace building and the depoliticisation of civil society: Sierra Leone 2002–13 pp. 1592-1609

Simone Datzberger

Volume 36, issue 7, 2015

Varieties of fragility: implications for aid pp. 1269-1280

Rachel Gisselquist

Disaggregating state fragility: a method to establish a multidimensional empirical typology pp. 1281-1298

Jörn Grävingholt, Sebastian Ziaja and Merle Kreibaum

Conceptualising state collapse: an institutionalist approach pp. 1299-1315

Daniel Lambach, Eva Johais and Markus Bayer

Towards a theory of fragile state transitions: evidence from Yemen, Bangladesh and Laos pp. 1316-1332

David Carment, Joe Landry, Yiagadeesen Samy and Scott Shaw

Aid and state transition in Ghana and South Korea pp. 1333-1348

Jiyoung Kim

Aid and policy preferences in oil-rich countries: comparing Indonesia and Nigeria pp. 1349-1364

Ahmad Helmy Fuady

Development assistance and the lasting legacies of rebellion in Burundi and Rwanda pp. 1365-1381

Devon E.A. Curtis

Aid, accountability and institution building in Ethiopia: the self-limiting nature of technocratic aid pp. 1382-1403

Berhanu Abegaz

Volume 36, issue 6, 2015

The power of human rights/the human rights of power: an introduction pp. 1033-1040

Louiza Odysseos and Anna Selmeczi

The question concerning human rights and human rightlessness: disposability and struggle in the Bhopal gas disaster pp. 1041-1059

Louiza Odysseos

Struggles, over rights: humanism, ethical dispossession and resistance pp. 1060-1075

Lara Montesinos Coleman

Who is the subject of neoliberal rights? Governmentality, subjectification and the letter of the law pp. 1076-1091

Anna Selmeczi

The human right to housing and community empowerment: home occupation, eviction defence and community land trusts pp. 1092-1109

Joe Hoover

Producing the subjects of reconciliation: the making of Sierra Leoneans as victims and perpetrators of past human rights violations pp. 1110-1128

Judith Renner

Disciplining the human rights of immigrants: market veridiction and the echoes of eugenics in contemporary EU immigration policies pp. 1129-1144

Jarmila Rajas

Border politics, right to life and acts of: voices from the Lampedusa borderland pp. 1145-1159

Raffaela Puggioni

The subject and the dislocation of state attribution in human rights discourse: the case of Mexican asylum claims in Canada pp. 1160-1174

Ariadna Estévez

Between learning and schooling: the politics of human rights monitoring at the Universal Periodic Review pp. 1175-1190

Jane K. Cowan and Julie Billaud

Power, privilege and rights: how the powerful and powerless create a vernacular of rights pp. 1191-1206

Daniel Tagliarina

Human rights and power amid protest and change in the Arab world pp. 1207-1221

Shadi Mokhtari

The power effects of human rights reforms in Turkey: enhanced surveillance and depoliticisation pp. 1222-1236

Şerif Onur Bahçecik

Promoting health or securing the market? The right to health and intellectual property between radical contestation and accommodation pp. 1237-1252

Eva Hilberg

Appropriation and the dualism of human rights: understanding the contradictory impact of gender norms in Nigeria pp. 1253-1267

Mathias Großklaus

Corrigendum pp. 1268-1268

The Editors

Volume 36, issue 5, 2015

The struggle versus the song – the local turn in peacebuilding: an introduction pp. 817-824

Caroline Hughes, Joakim Öjendal and Isabell Schierenbeck

The ‘local turn’ in peacebuilding: a literature review of effective and emancipatory local peacebuilding pp. 825-839

Hanna Leonardsson and Gustav Rudd

Where is the local? Critical localism and peacebuilding pp. 840-856

Roger Mac Ginty

Unpacking the local turn in peacebuilding: a critical assessment towards an agenda for future research pp. 857-874

Thania Paffenholz

The dynamic local: delocalisation and (re-)localisation in the search for peacebuilding identity pp. 875-889

Stefanie Kappler

Palestinian unity and everyday state formation: subaltern ‘ungovernmentality’ versus elite interests pp. 890-907

Sandra Pogodda and Oliver P. Richmond

Poor people’s politics in East Timor pp. 908-928

Caroline Hughes

The ‘local turn’ saving liberal peacebuilding? Unpacking virtual peace in Cambodia pp. 929-949

Joakim Öjendal and Sivhouch Ou

National policy in local practice: the case of Rwanda pp. 950-966

Malin Hasselskog and Isabell Schierenbeck

Local violence and politics in KwaZulu-Natal: perceptions of agency in a post-conflict society pp. 967-984

Anna K. Jarstad and Kristine Höglund

Reducing fragility through strengthening local governance in Guinea pp. 985-1006

Christian Arandel, Derick W. Brinkerhoff and Marissa M. Bell

Rethinking justice and institutions in African peacebuilding pp. 1007-1022

Goran Hyden

Beyond the local turn divide: lessons learnt, relearnt and unlearnt pp. 1023-1032

Isabell Schierenbeck

Volume 36, issue 4, 2015

How can emerging powers speak? On theorists, native informants and quasi-officials in International Relations discourse pp. 637-653

Peter Marcus Kristensen

Post-Feminist Spectatorship and the Girl Effect: “Go ahead, really imagine her” pp. 654-669

Sydney Calkin

Democracy, development and the executive presidency in Sri Lanka pp. 670-690

Rajesh Venugopal

Sectarianism and the prevalence of ‘othering’ in Islamic thought pp. 691-704

Naser Ghobadzdeh and Shahram Akbarzadeh

Globalisation masculinities, empire building and forced prostitution: a critical analysis of the gendered impact of the neoliberal economic agenda in post-invasion/occupation Iraq pp. 705-722

Stacy Banwell

Developmentality: indirect governance in the World Bank–Uganda partnership pp. 723-740

Jon Harald Sande Lie

Political capabilities for democratisation in Uganda: good governance or popular organisation building? pp. 741-757

Sophie King

How the World Bank manages social risks: implementation of the Social Risk Mitigation Project in Turkey pp. 758-775

Meltem Yilmaz Sener

Turkey – from tutelary to delegative democracy pp. 776-791

Hakkı Taş

Ali A Mazrui: a great man, a great scholar pp. 792-801

Seifudein Adem

Population Pressures and the North–South Divide between the first century and 2100 pp. 802-816

Marcin Wojciech Solarz and Małgorzata Wojtaszczyk

Volume 36, issue 3, 2015

Food sovereignty: convergence and contradictions, conditions and challenges pp. 431-448

Alberto Alonso-Fradejas, Saturnino M. Borras, Todd Holmes, Eric Holt-Giménez and Martha Jane Robbins

Exploring the ‘localisation’ dimension of food sovereignty pp. 449-468

Martha Jane Robbins

Food sovereignty, food security and fair trade: the case of an influential Nicaraguan smallholder cooperative pp. 469-488

Christopher M. Bacon

Food sovereignty and the quinoa boom: challenges to sustainable re-peasantisation in the southern Altiplano of Bolivia pp. 489-507

Tanya M. Kerssen

Food sovereignty as praxis: rethinking the food question in Uganda pp. 508-525

Giuliano Martiniello

Challenges for food sovereignty policy making: the case of Nicaragua’s Law 693 pp. 526-543

Wendy Godek

Operationalising food sovereignty through an investment lens: how agro-ecology is putting ‘big push theory’ back on the table pp. 544-562

Louis Thiemann

Accelerating towards food sovereignty pp. 563-583

Haroon Akram-Lodhi

We are not all the same: taking gender seriously in food sovereignty discourse pp. 584-599

Clara Mi Young Park, Ben White and Julia

Land and food sovereignty pp. 600-617

Saturnino M. Borras, Jennifer C. Franco and Sofía Monsalve Suárez

Contextualising food sovereignty: the politics of convergence among movements in the USA pp. 618-635

Zoe W. Brent, Christina M. Schiavoni and Alberto Alonso-Fradejas

Volume 36, issue 2, 2015

Ali A Mazrui on the invention of Africa and postcolonial predicaments: ‘My life is one long debate’ pp. 205-222

Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni

Resource powers? Minerals, energy and the rise of the BRICS pp. 223-239

Jeffrey D. Wilson

The aid orphan myth pp. 240-256

Liam Swiss and Stephen Brown

The role of global cities in land grabs pp. 257-273

Joshua K. Leon

Can poverty be funny? The serious use of humour as a strategy of public engagement for global justice pp. 274-290

John D. Cameron

Experiential and empathetic engagements with global poverty: ‘Live below the line so that others can rise above it’ pp. 291-305

Anke Schwittay and Kate Boocock

Third-worldism: sensibility and ideology in Uruguay – from Third Position to the thought of Carlos Real de Azúa pp. 306-321

Germán Esteban Alburquerque Fuschini

Authoritarian ‘geopolitics’ of survival in the Arab Spring pp. 322-336

Bülent Aras and Richard Falk

Kurdish policies in Syria under the Arab Uprisings: a revisiting of IR in the new Middle Eastern order pp. 337-356

Marianna Charountaki

Sectarianism and conflict in Syria pp. 357-376

Christopher Phillips

Tracking the gender politics of the Millennium Development Goals: struggles for interpretive power in the international development agenda pp. 377-395

Naila Kabeer

From ‘gender equality and ‘women’s empowerment’ to global justice: reclaiming a transformative agenda for gender and development pp. 396-415

Andrea Cornwall and Althea-Maria Rivas

Revolution, power and the Third World: a review of Michael Mann’s pp. 416-430

Sina Salessi

Volume 36, issue 1, 2015

The transnational state and the BRICS: a global capitalism perspective pp. 1-21

William I. Robinson

In-between anarchy and interdependence: from state death to fragile and failing states pp. 22-39

John Van Benthuysen

The UN at war: examining the consequences of peace-enforcement mandates for the UN peacekeeping operations in the CAR, the DRC and Mali pp. 40-54

John Karlsrud

The poverty of ‘poverty reduction’: the case of African cotton pp. 55-74

Adam Sneyd

Doing good or doing nothing? Celebrity, media and philanthropy in China pp. 75-93

Jonathan Hassid and Elaine Jeffreys

Conspiracy and statecraft in postcolonial states: theories and realities of the hidden hand in Pakistan’s war on terror pp. 94-110

Aasim Sajjad Akhtar and Ali Nobil Ahmad

Post-Arab Spring: changes and challenges pp. 111-129

Imad Salamey

Queering the Pashtun: Afghan sexuality in the homo-nationalist imaginary pp. 130-146

Nivi Manchanda

Teaching silence in the schoolroom: whither national history in Sierra Leone and El Salvador? pp. 147-161

Mneesha Gellman

Solidarity forever? ABC, ALBA and South–South Cooperation in Haiti pp. 162-178

Stephen Baranyi, Andreas E. Feldmann and Lydia Bernier

Manufacturing corporate landscapes: the case of agrarian displacement and food (in)security in Haiti pp. 179-197

Marylynn Steckley and Yasmine Shamsie

Humanism in the autobiographies of Edward Said and Nelson Mandela: memory as action pp. 198-204

Jihan Zakarriya