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:
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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 Haug, Jacqueline Braveboy-Wagner and Günther Maihold
The ‘Global South’ in the study of world politics: examining a meta category
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 Waisbich, Supriya 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]
