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Knowledge, Power, and Policy: Constructing a Political Economy of Innovation and Research in Post-Apartheid South Africa
South Africa has long been a leader in scientific research and innovation on the African continent.
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Theory from the South
‘The Global South’ is rarely seen as a source of explanation for world historical events.
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Affirmative Action: A Comparative Study
In dealing with diversity and difference, many countries have moved from the relatively passive idea of non-discrimination to a more pro-active strategy of affirmative action (AA).
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The New Internationalist - The Life and Times of Radhabinod Pal
Judge Radhabinod Pal is a forgotten man in international law.
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South African Literature: Global Challenges, New Humanities
This project positions South African Literature within the emergence of the New Humanities (Medical, Environmental, Digital), and orients both toward Medical, Scientific and Social Sciences’ emphases on the Sustainable Development Goals.
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Urbanist at Large: Iterating an Urban Sensibility
The STIAS Fellowship will be used to define a new field of research for the next four years.
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Sustainability, international trade and digitalisation: Core elements of sustainable soil management governance in the Global South
Based on the results of a previously terminated project Mapping out options for a model legislation on sustainable soil management in Africa, a model legislation for sustainable soil management is currently under development, for adoption by the Pan-African Parliament (PAP) and subsequent transmission as a proposal to all national parliaments of the African Union.
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Storying the blue Anthropocene from the oceanic South: oscillating and turbulent perspectives on the planetary crisis
This project seeks new critical and creative perspectives on the planetary crisis in forms of storytelling from the global South and the southern hemisphere that address the oceanic and hydrological effects of the Anthropocene.
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Contemporary urbanism on three continents - a study of the city regions of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), Gauteng (South Africa), São Paulo (Brasil) and Paris (France)
In ‘urban studies’, a varied area of research that crosses over many disciplines, two contemporary areas of focus that attract much attention are ‘southern urbanism’; and comparison of cities.
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A New Path to Welfare: Rights and Constitutionalism in the Global South
The rise of neoliberalism caused a ‘lost decade’ of development in large parts of the global South.
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Space and temporality in family language policy: Multilingualism, linguistic repertoires and lived experiences
With increased transnational migration in recent years, children growing up with more than one language has become more and more common as people cross borders, integrate into new cultural-linguistic landscapes, form intermarriages and partnerships, and create multilingual families.
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Law and Social Policy in the Global South
Chen, Albert H. Y. and Ulrike Davy. 2023. Law and Social Policy in the Global South. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003242826
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The Anthropocene, the Climate Emergency and International Relations: Brazil and South Africa in a Changing World Order
The main objective of this project is the finalization of a monograph analysing the linkages between the anthropocene, climate change and International Relations.
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Vertical Indian Ocean: A Cultural History of the Southern Submarine
The Indian Ocean has been called the ocean of the South, as well as the ocean of the future.
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Critical Engagement with Public Sociology: A Perspective from the Global South
Bezuidenhout, Andries, Sonwabile Mnwana and Karl von Holdt. (Eds). 2022. Critical Engagement with Public Sociology: A Perspective from the G...
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Social Regionalism in the Idea of Transnational Labour Law
We have entered a moment of profound challenge for open societies.
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Licence to Talk
Licence to Talk is an attempt to describe the ‘actually-existing’ South African public sphere in all its messy complexity.
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Capricious Connections: the politics of knowledge infrastructure in the South Atlantic and Indian Ocean Islands
This project enables the completion of ongoing research that explores knowledge systems in the South Atlantic and Indian Ocean islands.
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Seeing Like Scholars: Whose Exile? Making a Life, at Home and Abroad
Diawara, Mamadou. 2020. Seeing Like Scholars: Whose Exile? Making a Life, at Home and Abroad. In Ross Anthony and Uta Ruppert (Eds.), Reconf...
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Doing being middle-class in the global South: comparative perspectives and conceptual challenges
Lentz, Carola. 2020. Doing being middle-class in the global South: comparative perspectives and conceptual challenges. Africa, 90(3), 439–46...
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Citizenship, International Justice, and the View from the South
The project is based primarily on a book manuscript under contract with Routledge Press: Citizenship in a Globalized World.
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Gender, Luxury, Waste: New Intersections in Southern Consumption Theory
This project will bring together original, recently completed empirical work examining cultural and media dimensions of three key facets of contemporary consumer culture in the global south, with a view to generating new theory relevant to consumption in the global south.
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The Finances of Regional Organisations in the Global South: Follow the Money
Engel, Ulf and Frank Mattheis. (Eds.). 2019. The Finances of Regional Organisations in the Global South: Follow the Money (1st ed.). Routled...
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Theory from the South: Or, How Euro-America is Evolving Toward Africa (The Radical Imagination)
Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff. 2012. Theory from the South: Or, How Euro-America is Evolving Toward Africa (The Radical Imagination). P...
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New Urban Worlds: Inhabiting Dissonant Times
Simone, AbdouMaliq and Edgar Pieterse. 2017. New Urban Worlds: Inhabiting Dissonant Times. Wiley. http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/pr...
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STIAS Series Volume 7: Affirmative Action: A view from the Global South
Affirmative Action: A view from the Global South Ockert Dupper, Kamala Sankaran (Editors) SUN PRESS (2014, 285 pp) ISBN: 978‑1‑920689‑46-9 ...
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STIAS Series Volume 5: Theory from the South – How Euro-America is evolving toward Africa
Theory from the South– How Euro-America is evolving toward Africa Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff SUN PRESS (2014, 222 pp) ISBN: 978-1-9206...
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Southern imaginaries, or, thinking from the South
At a time when the focus of economic development is often the so-called Global South, yet when countries of the north continue to grow in geopolitical dominance, this interdisciplinary project offers a series of cultural, historical, and literary reflections on southness.
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The temporalities of the Informality. The case of Benin-Nigeria Cross-border Fuel Smuggling
This research intends to analyze informality as a dimension of the social contract initiated by marginalized actors in response to the crisis of welfare state in Global South.
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DECOLONIALITY AFTER DECOLONIZATION: The question of knowledge and higher education in Southern Africa and the Global South
The Knowledge Society is a common expression nowadays in the Global North and the Global West, were knowledge means technological knowledge and training geared towards economic growth, development and modernization.
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The new middle class in Africa in comparative perspective
Comparative perspectives from the global south can tell us much about the meteoric rise of the new middle class in Africa.
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Understanding Southern welfare – social policies in Brazil, India, China and South Africa
A mid-term research programme focusing on the ideational foundations of social policies beyond traditional Northern welfare will be fleshed out.
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From Limited Government to Social Justice and Development: Progressive Constitutionalism in the Era of Globalisation
While Southern countries have largely failed to bring about a new international economic order, they have been more successful in shaping the international agenda in the field of human rights, from the Convention for the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination to the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and its recent Protocol.
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South Africa in the Region. Gateway or Gatekeeper?
The main purpose of this project is to analyse South Africa’s Foreign Policy towards its own region and towards Latin America (Brazil and Argentina) on a comparative basis and to discuss its role as a regional-middle-emerging power: Leadership?
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Conjuring majorities: Life, infrastructure, and relational politics in the urban South
A joint book manuscript ‘Conjuring majorities: life, infrastructure, and relational politics in the urban South’ (with AbdouMaliq Simone) will be completed.