Monday, October 17, 2022

GS Workshop

 

Fourth Emerging Global South Scholar Workshop

The Fourth Emerging Global South Scholar Workshop is a training, mentoring and networking program designed for emerging scholars of the Global South within the International Studies profession. This workshop is sponsored by the ISA’s Committee on the Status of Engagement with the Global South (CSEGS), in collaboration with the Global South Caucus (GSCIS) and the Global Development Studies Section (GDS). The workshop will take place Tuesday, March 14, 2023 in Montreal.

Established Global South scholars (and Northern scholars interested in the Global South) will act as mentors throughout a half-day workshop, and hopefully, beyond. Improving on the success of our first and second workshops, this third edition will address the issues that seem to be of use and interest, such as publishing, teaching, networking and conducting research in challenging settings. The purpose of the workshop is to provide more comprehensive information about how to navigate academia, locally, regionally and globally, to create robust networks of emerging Global South scholars, and to address current inequalities and asymmetries within the International Studies profession with respect to the Global South.

Special attention will be given to the conditions that characterize academic work and IR communities in many Global South sites, including lack of resources, institutional barriers, unhelpful government policies, constraints on academic freedom, and limited support for social science and humanities programs, including discussions on how COVID has affected scholars, and suggestions to overcome the new challenges. Throughout the course of the half-day workshop, it is expected that all attendees participate in question and answer sessions, break-out groups, and mentoring activities.

Interested participants should apply to globalsouth@isanet.org by November 15th, 2022 with the following information:

  • Name
  • Institutional affiliation (if there is one) and current status
  • Current CV
  • A brief statement (100-200 words) indicating your interest in the workshop

The CSEGS will evaluate these applications and identify 25 scholars to take part in the workshop by December 1st, 2022. (1) Please note, participants of this program must be ISA members at the time of the event, though membership is not required for application.


Author Symposium

 

GSCIS Author Symposium: Building a Stronger Collaborative Relationship Between Author and Editor

GSCIS AUTHOR SYMPOSIUM
Building a Stronger Collaborative Relationship Between Author and Editor

Chair: Aigul Kulnazarova
The Global South Caucus for International Studies (GSCIS) is pleased to offer a new Author Symposium that will provide ISA and GSCIS members with enhanced publishing opportunities through networking with senior and executive editors of leading academic journals and publishing institutions in the field.  

In collaboration with

Journal Editors: 
Alynna Lyon, Editor-in-Chief, Global Governance (Brill)
Amanda Murdie, Editor-in-Chief, International Studies Review (Oxford University Press)  
Brent J. Steele, Co-Editor-in-Chief, Global Studies Quarterly (Oxford University Press)  
Ken Stiles, Editor-in-Chief, Global Governance (Brill)
Ronald Krebs, Editor-in-Chief, Security Studies (Taylor & Francis)

Publishers: 
Anca Pusca, Executive Editor, Palgrave Macmillan
Anthony Wahl, Senior Editor, Oxford University Press
Brian Giblin, Senior Editor, Oxford University Press
Bridget Flannery-McCoy, Senior Editor, Princeton University Press
John Haslam, Executive Editor, Cambridge University Press
Lynne Rienner, CEO and President, Lynne Rienner Publishers 

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
In this era of increasing academic internationalization and research collaboration in general, one area that remains intellectually challenging is global reach and publishing opportunities for authors from the Global South. And this is true for many, if not all, social science disciplines. As recent studies in international development show, for example, only 16% of the nearly 25,000 articles published in 20 leading development journals between 1990 and 2019 were written by authors from the Global South.1  

Established as an advocacy group to support underrecognized scholars, practitioners, and students, among other goals, the Global South Caucus for International Studies (GSCIS) seeks to forge collaborative relationships between authors and editors, and to expand international authorship and intellectual diversity with new and established voices from all regions, but especially from those that remain underrepresented. To that end, GSCIS aims to launch a new pre-convention program in Montreal in a developing partnership with leading journals and publishing institutions in the field and offer this program to its members annually thereafter. 

FORMAT
The First GSCIS Author Symposium will take place on March 14, 2023 in Montreal. It is intended not only to inform prospective authors about the editorial and production process, but also to provide a space for closer interaction between editors and authors. Thus, the symposium will be divided into two sections. In one section, participants will meet and work with journal editors, and in the second, with publishers. Each section, in turn, will be divided into two sessions: one for editors to present the concepts, policies, and publishing standards of their respective journals and institutions, and the other session organized in small groups that will rotate (move from table to table) to facilitate communication between authors and editors on more specific issues of writing, presenting, and publishing individual work. Such close interaction will ideally develop into long-term relationships with subsequent high-quality and timely publications. 

PARTICIPATION 
The GSCIS Author Symposium is a special pre-convention program for a limited number of participants sponsored by ISA Global South Caucus for International Studies. The two sections of the symposium, one with journal editors and the other with publishers, will run separately, with some of their sessions possibly overlapping. 

The Organizing Committee will select up to 20 participants for each section. Successful applicants may only participate in one section, although they may apply for both. The committee will pay special attention to cross-regional and interdisciplinary themes spanning multiple areas and regions, as well as candidates of any academic rank or position from institutions located in the Global South, underrepresented groups and universities, etc. We especially encourage those members who have manuscripts or dissertations in progress or ongoing research projects to apply and who believe they would benefit from special guidance to complete and publish their work in English through participating journals and publishers.  

SUBMISSION
Interested members should submit the following materials:

  • Application form (please download the WORD file here, fill in the required fields and submit along with other materials).
  • A brief proposal, including the title, objectives, and a summary of unfinished manuscript or ongoing research project, and its relationship to the Global South or cross-regional and interdisciplinary topics (up to 500 words).
  • Description of past difficulties with publication, if any (up to 200 words).
  • Description of expected learning objectives, outputs and outcomes, e.g., journal article, research monograph, etc. (up to 500 words).
  • Curriculum Vitae.

Submission Deadline: October 31, 2022
Complete application materials must be sent as a single combined pdf file to: gscis@isanet.org (indicate "GSCIS Author Symposium" in the subject line).

Organizing committee: 
Aigul Kulnazarova, GSCIS Chair 
Alistair Edgar, GSCIS Member   
Cyril Obi, GSCIS Africa Regional Representative 
Marcos Scauso, GSCIS Newsletter Editor
Raslan Ibrahim, GSCIS Middle East and North Africa Regional Representative


Questions can be directed to the members of the GSCIS Author Symposium Organizing Committee, (gscis@isanet.org). 


1 Verónica Amarante, Ronelle Burger, Grieve Chelwa, John Cockburn, Ana Kassouf, Andrew McKay & Julieta Zurbrigg (2021). Underrepresentation of developing country researchers in development research, Applied Economics Letters, DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2021.1965528.

Saturday, April 9, 2022

Collaboration with the American Political Science Association: Important conference deadline

 

Dear Members:

    At the recent ISA conference held in Nashville, with the support of then-caucus chair Eric Degila, caucus representatives and representatives of APSA explored the possibility of collaboration based on initial discussions held some time ago between founding chair J. Braveboy-Wagner and the President of APSA John Ishiyama.  For those who do not know it, APSA has several groups involved in GS research including the  African Politics Conference Group, MENA Politics section, and Democracy & Autocracy section and also organizes short courses (RDG short courses). Below is some information on funded APSA workshops taking place this summer. Please note that the deadlines for application are right around the corner. 

Click here for Summer conferences in Amman and Bangkok: Please note  the open Call for Papers to these conferences (deadlines in early April).

    Please contact me if there are any questions,

    Best to all,

JBW 

Saturday, March 19, 2022

Our apologies for the long delay in updating the blog

 Dear Members:

The blog has been a bit inactive and we apologize to all the members. JBW and some older members were busily engaged in our constitutional review, a repot on which will be filed later.. 

 Last year was a difficult year for all of us. Let's catch up now.

Elections were held last fall and the results were the following:


Professor Aigul KULNAZAROVA has been elected as our new Chair 2022-2023 with more than 97% of votes. The total vote of our membership is 29.01%." (emphasis in original)


New EXCOMM, 2022-2024:

Chair : Aigul KULNARAROVA, Tama University, Japan

Vice-Chair/Program Chair : Zaynab EL BERNOUSSI, Université Internationale de Rabat, Morocco

At-Large Africa Representative: Cyril OBI, SSRC, New York

At-Large Latin American and Caribbean Representative: Valeria M. VALLE, Universidad IberoAmericano, Mexico

At-Large North-South or Eurasian Representative: Jason STRAKES

At-Large Middle East/North Africa Representative: Raslan IBRAHIM, State University of New York at Geneseo

At-Large Asia Representative: Khushi SINGH RATHORE, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Ex-Officio (past chair): Dêlidji Eric DEGILA, The Graduate Institute, Geneva

Secretary/Communications Director: Nassef MANABILANG ADIONG, Bangsamoro Autonomous Region, The Philippines

Newsletter Editor: Marcos S. SCAUSO, Quinnipiac University, USA

Treasurer: Consuelo DAVILA PEREZ, UNAM, Mexico 
 
These results will be confirmed and the new executive will be introduced at the Business Meeting at ISA, March 31, 2022, 7:00AM - 8:00AM (Nashville time) virtually. All members should have received the link via email but in case you did not:

To join, please click on the following link :

https://isanet-org.zoom.us/j/4435544532?pwd=QnBMMDFLd1NRZGNNK2o5TXJoa3dpdz09
 
or enter meeting ID: 
443 554 4532, Access code: GSCIS2022

The Caucus is sponsoring or co-sponsoring the following panels at:

#ISA2022 - ISA 2022 Annual Convention - March 28th - April 2nd, 2022
A Wider Discipline For A Smaller World

Monday 8am-9.30 am
The Global South Agency and Covid-19: Impact and Response (Virtual panel)
Monday 11am-12.30pm 
Summits of Great Powers and African Agency (virtual roundtable)
Monday 2pm-3.30pm (cosponsored by ISSS)
Global South Perspectives III: Existential Threats? (virtual panel)
Friday 8.15am-10am (with FPA)
Global South Perspectives on the New Era: Strategizing the US-China Rivalry (in person)
Saturday 10.30am-12.15am (in-person)
Legitimation Contests in the Global South - Advancing alternatives to studying regional integration
Same time:
Global South Perspectives I: Grand Strategy (with ISSS) (in person)

We hope to see you there!

Friday, September 10, 2021

Some Global South Affairs

We hope that you have enjoyed the summer (generically-speaking since "summer" refers really to those in the North) and that you are coping well enough with the continued restrictions caused by the rise of the Delta variant of covid 19. We are still looking forward to holding the Nashville conference in person so let us keep our fingers crossed. As we all continue to focus in various ways on defining the Global South and analyzing all the many foreign policy concerns in which the South is implicated, here are some bits of news:

A REMINDER: Although we do not normally permit comments on this information-oriented blog, if you have any comments, concerns, or questions, please do not hesitate to email us. 

On September 9, 2021, the launch of a special edition of Third World Quarterly took place.

Please check TWQ for details of this publication.


THE ‘GLOBAL SOUTH’ IN THE STUDY OF WORLD POLITICS

Event Type
Online Launch

Location/Date
Online, 07.09.2021

Organiser

This online launch event is co-hosted by Articulação Sul, Sao Paulo, and the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), Bonn.



The Special Issue The ‘Global South’ in the study of world politics is published by Third World Quarterly in September 2021. Edited by Sebastian Haug, Jacqueline Braveboy-Wagner and Günther Maihold, it focuses on the increasing popularity of the ‘Global South’ as a meta category and asks whether and how it can be put to analytical use for research on world politics.

In this online launch event, editors and authors present their contributions and invite participants to discuss the main arguments put forward across the pages of the Special Issue.

Special Issue papers (see below) include contributions by Adriana Abdenur, Tobias Berger, Manuela Boatcă, Andrew Cooper, Nadine Godehardt, Sebastian Haug, Florian Koch, Paul Kohlenberg, Supriya Roychoudhury, Siddarth Tripathi and Laura Trajber Waisbich.

For queries, please get in touch with sebastian.haug@die-gdi.de or @SebHaug.

Speakers

Sebastian HaugJacqueline Braveboy-Wagner and Günther Maihold
The ‘Global South’ in the study of world politics: examining a meta category

Andrew Cooper
China, India and the pattern of G20/BRICS engagement: differentiated ambivalence between ‘rising’ power status and solidarity with the Global South

Paul Kohlenberg and Nadine Godehardt
Locating the ‘South’ in China’s connectivity politics

Manuela Boatcă
Unequal institutions in the longue durée: citizenship through a Southern lens

Tobias Berger
The ‘Global South’ as a relational category: global hierarchies in the production of law and legal pluralism

Sebastian Haug
A Thirdspace approach to the ‘Global South’: insights from the margins of a popular category

Siddharth Tripathi
International Relations and the ‘Global South’: From Epistemic Hierarchies to Dialogic Encounters

Florian Koch
Cities as transnational climate change actors: applying a Global South perspective

Adriana Abdenur
Climate and Security: UN agenda-setting and the ‘Global South’

Laura Trajber WaisbichSupriya Roychoudhury and Sebastian Haug
Beyond the single story: ‘Global South’ polyphonies

_______________________________________________

Call for Papers Special Issue “Global South and its perspectives: expanding the frontiers of International Relations”

Monções, Journal of International Relations of the Federal University of Grande Dourados (UFGD) (ISSN 23168323) invites submissions to the special issue "Global South and its perspectives: expanding the frontiers of International Relations”. The deadline for submissions is December 17th, 2021. 

https://ojs.ufgd.edu.br/index.php/moncoes/announcement/view/274 [ojs.ufgd.edu.br]


Monday, June 14, 2021

Catching up!

 Dear Members:

It is hard to believe that we have not updated you for several months. Unfortunately, the uncertainties of the last year with its global health challenges (including concentrated teaching) caught up with us. However, we know that you have been receiving information by other methods, in particular our newsletter. In the future, we will be updating the blog more regularly as we did in the past. 

1. The most important event for us this year was, of course, our participation in the annual ISA meeting (Las Vegas, online). The caucus sponsored/co-sponsored a variety of panels, including:

A record of three thematic panels entitled Sub-State Actors or State-Like Entities : Interrogating Governance in

Global South Contexts

Evolutionary Advances in Latin American Regionalism: From Local to Global 

and South-South Security Cooperation and the (Re-)Making of World Politics

Two panels in cooperation with other sections:

Theorizing from the South: Global South Contributions to World Order Conceptions (with Theory Section)

International Relations Beyond Borders and Approaches: From state-centric to glocal IR (with Theory and Historical International Relations sections) 

Insights from/for the Global South (with IPE and Global Development)

Three roundtables:

Doing 'Diversity' Work? A Roundtable with the ISA Committee on Representation and Diversity, the Women's Caucus, and the LGBTQA Caucus

Teaching IR with a Global South Perspective, with International Education and Active Learning in International Affairs sections)

and Global South IR: Assessing North-South and South-South Encounters, sponsored by the Committee on Status of Engagement with the Global South, and ISA. 

In addition, the Caucus held its Distinguished Scholar Panel, honoring Prof. Mohamed Mahmoud Ould  Mohamedou of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. Among participants were Dêlidji Eric Degila (ENA-Benin), Jacqueline Braveboy-Wagner (CUNY), Consuelo Davila (National Autonomous University of Mexico), Robert Vitalis (University of Pennsylvania), Bahgat Korany (AUC, Egypt), Nadia Marzouki (EUI), Bertrand Badie (Graduate Institute, Geneva), Funmi Olonisakin (King's College, UK) and Karim Bitar (IRIS, Paris)

Unfortunately, we were unable to hold the usual breakfast or evening activities that we look forward to. In addition, the Business Meeting was postponed until after the convention. We look forward to holding ISA in person in 2022, even as we are aware that many of our members, coming from the Global South, may still not be able to attend. Vaccine inequality has been a topic that many of us have been stressing in our academic and public presentations and we are happy to see that the developed nations are finally preparing to release/donate more vaccines to the less fortunate countries.

2. In addition to ISA, the caucus was represented by a few of its members at the annual Caribbean Studies Association meeting, scheduled for Guyana (but online), held May 31 to June 5. Caucus member Kristina Hinds served as program chair for the conference whose theme was "Identity, Politics, Industry, Ecology, and the Intelligent Economy in Caribbean Societies." A welcome ceremony and performance featured a mixed genre mixed media presentation highlighting the evolution of Guyanese identity and cultural agency through poetry, music, and dance. Via more than 100 panels, participants offered interdisciplinary presentations on the environment, health, politics, political economy, international relations, race, ethnicity and gender, and a cross-section of art, culture and literature issues. Several panels focused on environment, including climate resilience as well as the link between Guyana's recent oil exploitation and obligations under the Paris Accord. Female Caribbean leadership was featured at a plenary including the newly appointed first female head of the Caribbean Community integration organization (Dr. Carla Barnett) as well as the US ambassador to Guyana, and the first female appointee as Vice Chancellor of an English-speaking Caribbean university (Prof. Paloma Mohamed, University of Guyana).

Of particular interest to the caucus, a first-evening plenary  included five former presidents including former Caucus Chair Jacqueline Braveboy-Wagner, who spoke to the theme "Reflecting on the Future of the CSA Through the Lenses of the Past." Also of interest to the caucus was a panel composed of caucus members from the Caribbean, Diana Cassells (Jamaica/US), Betty Sedoc-Dahlberg (Suriname)  and J. Braveboy-Wagner (US/Trinidad and Tobago) who discussed Cuban, US and China relations with the region under the theme "New Thinking, New Issues in Caribbean International Relations."  Anyone interested in learning more about the conference can link to the CSA website or the related blog, https://www.globalonefrontier.org/blog/a-view-of-the-caribbean-studies-association-45-charting-new-paths-part-1

3. The deadline for submitting proposals for ISA-Nashville was June 1 and judging from the last few days of activity, the caucus should be receiving many proposals. Jason Strakes continues to serve as the caucus's program chair this year. As usual, we will update the membership with conference details in due course. 

Please continue to send information on conferences and other pertinent matters here: blog


Tuesday, January 19, 2021

 A Very Happy (Belated) New Year to All Our Members.

Happy Martin Luther King Day (for members in the US). 


We hope that everyone is safe during this pandemic and we trust that every country will receive the new vaccines quickly and in the spirit of equality. Global health is important for all.

On this day (January 18) and during this important week in the United States, in hopes of a global recommitment to multilateralism and diversity,  please see:

The Youtube video of the Caucus' seminar on multilateralism held in Geneva December 7 at: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwdkDbupEM4&feature=youtu.be

and

J. Braveboy-Wagner's podcast for the Ralph Bunche Center for International Studies at the Graduate School of the City University of New York: 

 https://soundcloud.com/user-665186326/the-past-and-future-of-the-global-south

 

We will be adding more links to our members' activities in this area as we go along. Please send your information to the blog keeper at: jbraveboy-wagner@gc.cuny.edu


Best to all,

The GSCIS Team