ThirdWorlds
About the Book Series
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.
Foreign Aid of Gulf States: Continuity and Change
1st Edition
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By Mohammad Yaghi, Hanaa Almoaibed, Silvia Colombo
September 29, 2025
This book explores how Gulf States’ foreign aid strategies have transformed in the wake of 9/11 and the 2011 Arab Uprisings. It traces the shift from a solidarity-based model to aid increasingly driven by political and military objectives, particularly in conflict zones like Yemen, Libya, and Syria...
Informal Governance and Crisis: How Invisible, Everyday Tactics of Survival Affect, Reshape and Redesign Policymaking and Governance
1st Edition
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By Joseph P. Helou, Abel Polese
September 22, 2025
This book examines the impact of crises on people’s lives by walking readers through several case studies from Mali, Niger, Kyrgyzstan, Brazil, Lebanon, Libya and several escape routes and entry points, such as the Canary Islands, into the European Union. It conceptualizes crises as events that ...
Climate Security in the Indo-Pacific: Variations, Contestations and Convergence of Security Practices
1st Edition
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By Mely Caballero-Anthony, Alistair D.B. Cook
August 14, 2025
This book explores the intersection of climate change and security in the Indo-Pacific, from the South China Sea disputes to national and regional security practices in India, Japan and Southeast Asia, highlighting the vulnerability of countries facing extreme weather, sea-level rise, and ...
The Social Life of Skills in the Global South
1st Edition
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By Trent Brown, Geert De Neve
June 24, 2025
This book expands understandings of how skills are defined, acquired, and utilized in Global South contexts. ‘Skills’ and ‘skill development’ are increasingly prominent focal points for governments in the Global South and international development bodies. Yet, policymakers and practitioners ...
Affect, Emotions and Power in Development Studies Theory and Practice
1st Edition
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By Tanya Jakimow
May 06, 2025
This book advances new research directions that explore the emotional and affective dimensions of development. Going beyond merely placing emotion and/or affect as the objects of study, it examines ‘development’ in fresh ways through analysis of its affective dimensions. Affect and emotions are ...
Migration Politics across the World
1st Edition
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By Katharina Natter, Hélène Thiollet
May 06, 2025
This book breaks new ground in scholarship on the politics of migration. The edited volume brings together in-depth case studies from Argentina, Tunisia, Japan, South Korea, the United States, Australia, the Philippines, China, and Saudi Arabia to showcase the complex interplay between migration ...
Studies of Childhoods in the Global South: Towards an Epistemic Turn in Transnational Childhood Research?
1st Edition
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By Afua Twum-Danso Imoh, Lucia Rabello de Castro, Orna Naftali
October 18, 2024
What would a body of literature, focusing on Southern childhoods, look like when epistemologically driven by the demands (social, cultural, economic, political) of the localities in which they are shaped and produced? To answer this question, this book explores locally driven perspectives of ...
Working People Speak: Oral Histories of Neoliberal Africa
1st Edition
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By Jörg Wiegratz, Joseph Mujere, Joost Fontein
October 11, 2024
This book presents a re-engagement with oral histories as a way of documenting, understanding, and discussing experiences of work and economic life in Africa under neoliberal capitalism. It draws on seven case studies in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Uganda, and South Sudan, from the late 1980s to the ...
Beyond the Gatekeeper State
1st Edition
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By Sara Rich Dorman
January 29, 2024
Beyond the Gatekeeper State explores the dynamic changes occurring within and between African states, and the international system since the turn of the century. Frederick Cooper’s model of ‘gatekeeper states’ – shaped as much by their international links as by their domestic practices – provides ...
Citizen Aid and Everyday Humanitarianism: Development Futures?
1st Edition
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By Anne Meike Fechter, Anke Schwittay
September 25, 2023
Citizen Aid and Everyday Humanitarianism brings together, under the umbrella terms of citizen aid and grassroots humanitarianism, interdisciplinary research on small-scale, privately-funded forms of aid that operate on the margins of the official development sector. The last decade has seen a ...
Decolonising Curricula and Pedagogy in Higher Education: Bringing Decolonial Theory into Contact with Teaching Practice
1st Edition
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By Shannon Morreira, Kathy Luckett, Siseko H. Kumalo, Manjeet Ramgotra
September 25, 2023
This book brings together voices from the Global South and Global North to think through what it means, in practice, to decolonise contemporary higher education. Occasionally, a theoretical concept arises in academic debate that cuts across individual disciplines. Such concepts – which may well ...
Decolonising Gender in South Asia
1st Edition
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By Nazia Hussein, Saba Hussain
September 25, 2023
Decolonising Gender in South Asia is the first full-length compilation of cutting-edge research on the challenging debates around decolonial thought and gender studies in South Asia. The book elaborates on various ways of thinking about gender outside the epistemic frame of coloniality/modernity ...