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SLAS Research Development Award 2026

Value: Up to £10,000
Deadline: 20 Mar 26

A prestigious award designed to support significant research projects and impactful collaborations within the field of Latin American Studies.

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Kassahun Checole Prize | Call for Early Career Researchers

⏰ Submissions close on 1 July 2026

There is still time to apply for The Kassahun Checole Prize!
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Escaping the Capitalist Black Hole: dethroning Mammon and liberating water Colonial legacies and neoliberal capitalism continue to underpin and intensify global water insecurity. Drawing on five years of research from the UK-funded Water Security and Sustainable Developme...

Escaping the Capitalist Black Hole
Drawing on research across the Global South, Mohsen Nagheeby shows how colonial legacies & neoliberal capitalism commodify water, and why justice requires escaping their pull.

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Introducing TWQ Research Notes: Sparking New Conversations in Global South Studies - GLOBAL SOUTHS HUB Introducing TWQ Research Notes: Sparking New Conversations in Global South Studies Marcos Scauso is a scholar-activist whose work focuses on decolonial thought, particularly in relation to Latin America. His academic and activist work is rooted in collaboration with Indigenous movem...

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TWQ invites submissions for a forthcoming Special Issue that critically examines how the BRI shapes trade, development, cooperation, and power relations across the Global South.
Abstract deadline: 15 April 2026

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It examines academic dependency, power relations, and how knowledge from the Global South is recognised or marginalised.
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The new Third World Quarterly Special Issue, Decolonising Epistemology: Intellectual Imperialism and the Coloniality of Knowledge, takes on these questions directly.

Who decides what counts as knowledge and who gets left out?

Colonial histories continue to shape global knowledge production in ways that often go unnoticed from what is taught in universities to which research is published and cited.
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