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THIRDWORLDS will focus on the political economy, development and cultures of those parts of the world that have experienced the most political, social, and economic upheaval, and which have faced the greatest challenges of the postcolonial world under globalisation: poverty, displacement and diaspora, environmental degradation, human and civil rights abuses, war, hunger, and disease.

THIRDWORLDS serves as a signifier of oppositional emerging economies and cultures ranging from Africa, Asia, Latin America, Middle East, and even those ‘Souths’ within a larger perceived North, such as the U.S. South and Mediterranean Europe. The study of these otherwise disparate and discontinuous areas, known collectively as the Global South, demonstrates that as globalisation pervades the planet, the south, as a synonym for subalterity, also transcends geographical and ideological frontiers.

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After the Third World?

After the Third World?

1st Edition

Edited By Mark T. Berger
April 09, 2015

The emergence of the 'Third World' is generally traced to onset of the Cold War and decolonization in the 1940s and 1950s. In the 1960s and 1970s the "three worlds of development" were central to the wider dynamics of the changing international order. By the 1980s, Third Worldism had peaked ...

Terrorism and the Politics of Naming

Terrorism and the Politics of Naming

1st Edition

Edited By Michael Bhatia
April 09, 2015

Previously published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly, this volume assesses the nature, power, role and function of names in global politics and the international media. Names are not objective, they accrue subjective associations, for example 'Terrorist' has a very different connotation...

Negotiating Well-being in Central Asia

Negotiating Well-being in Central Asia

1st Edition

Edited By David W. Montgomery
September 23, 2014

Much scholarship of any region focuses on the perceived problems that hold back a population. Central Asia is no exception, as it is a region with political, economic, and environmental problems that seem to keep Central Asians from a "better" future. Alongside all the struggles of life, however, ...

The Global Politics of Impairment and Disability Processes and Embodiments

The Global Politics of Impairment and Disability: Processes and Embodiments

1st Edition

Edited By Karen Soldatic, Helen Meekosha
June 24, 2014

Disability is of central concern to the developing world but has largely been under-represented in global development debates, discourses and negotiations. Similarly, disability studies has overlooked both the theorists and the social experience of the global South, and there has been a one-way ...

People Power in an Era of Global Crisis Rebellion, Resistance and Liberation

People Power in an Era of Global Crisis: Rebellion, Resistance and Liberation

1st Edition

Edited By Barry K. Gills, Kevin Gray
August 07, 2013

A quarter of a century has now passed since the historic popular uprising that led to the overthrow of the Ferdinand Marcos dictatorship in the Philippines. The mass movement known as the "People’s Power Revolution" was not only pivotal to the democratic transition within the Philippines, but it ...

Domestic and International Perspectives on Kyrgyzstan’s ‘Tulip Revolution’ Motives, Mobilization and Meanings

Domestic and International Perspectives on Kyrgyzstan’s ‘Tulip Revolution’: Motives, Mobilization and Meanings

1st Edition

Edited By Sally Cummings
October 14, 2013

In early 2005 regional protests in Kyrgyzstan soon became national ones as protesters seized control of the country’s capital, Bishkek. The country’s president for fifteen years, Askar Akaev, fled the country and after a night of extensive looting, a new president, Kurmanbek Bakiev, came to power. ...

Identity, Inequity and Inequality in India and China Governing Difference

Identity, Inequity and Inequality in India and China: Governing Difference

1st Edition

Edited By Ravinder Kaur, Ayo Wahlberg
September 24, 2013

This volume explores how difference is constructed, manifested, mobilised and obscured in socially uneven societies, particularly those fuelled by neoliberal economic growth in the recent years. The book approaches difference as a double edged concept that allows one to make sense of the ...

Connecting Cultures

Connecting Cultures

1st Edition

Edited By Emma Bainbridge
March 18, 2009

This lively and incisive collection of essays from an international group of scholars explores the interactions between cultures originating in Africa, India, the Caribbean, and Europe. Those interactions have been both destructive and richly productive, and the consequences continue to 'trouble ...

From Nation-Building to State-Building

From Nation-Building to State-Building

1st Edition

Edited By Mark T. Berger
February 23, 2009

This book examines the history of nation-building during the era of decolonization and the Cold War, and on the more recent post-Cold War and post-9/11 pursuit of nation-building in what have become known as ‘collapsed’ or ‘failed’ states. In the post-Cold War and post-9/11 era nation-building, ...

Globalisation and Migration New Issues, New Politics

Globalisation and Migration: New Issues, New Politics

1st Edition

Edited By Ronaldo Munck
August 10, 2010

This book critically examines the new issues and new politics regarding migration in the era of globalisation from a majority world perspective. It examines the current shifts in the global political economy and the effects it has, for example, in relation to rural displacement. When and how ...

Market-Led Agrarian Reform

Market-Led Agrarian Reform

1st Edition

Edited By Saturnino Borras Jr., Cristóbal Kay, Edward Lahiff
May 03, 2011

Three-fourths of the world’s poor are rural poor. Most of the rural poor remain dependent on land-based livelihoods for their incomes and reproduction despite significant livelihood diversification in recent years. Land issue remains critical to any development discourse today. Market-led agrarian ...

Renewing International Labour Studies

Renewing International Labour Studies

1st Edition

Edited By Marcus Taylor
March 07, 2013

This volume seeks to re-energise the paradigm of the New International Labour Studies by detailing how struggles over the construction, reproduction, utilisation and restructuring of labour forces are the contested social foundations upon which the global economy stands. Through a combination of ...

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