🔔 We got a new grant for a project in the Philippines 🇵🇭 and Vietnam 🇻🇳 on urban resilience to climate change funded by UK FCDO & IDRC Canada! Another opportunity to collaboratively engage in the praxis of social and public policy, climate action, and sustainability. 🇭🇰🎉@DSocsp
A mood booster I received from #SagePolicyProfiles Not really savvy in promoting my research but it gives me joy knowing they’re being used for policy-related works. 💪📚📖
Find our new special issue, 'Reconceptualising Activism Space in the Contemporary Global South' here: https://t.co/RcOKWewoQO
Guest edited by Hosna J Shewly and Eva Gerharz
@GlobalSouthsHub
📢 Call for Applications
Are you an #EarlyCareerResearcher (ECP) from the Global South working on peace, conflict, or humanitarian issues?
Apply now for the @UCLRDR fully funded 3-day International Writing Workshop!
📍 Rio de Janeiro
🗓️ 8-10 April 2026
Deadline: 15 Sept 2025
🇧🇷 More Info 👉 https://t.co/MazeLVIs7b
Asian Studies Conference Japan, one of nine affiliated AAS regional conferences, is now soliciting submissions for its July 4-5, 2026 conference at Sophia University, Tokyo. Submit paper, panel, and roundtable abstracts by October 31 for consideration.
https://t.co/WrPOuqoN1N
@NTUHistory Book Talk by Professor Fiona Williamson (@sgSMU) on Meteorology, Science and Environment in Colonial Malaysia. Register now at https://t.co/w9ClM4EgWO
@anthropam In one of the workshops we conducted this summer, I remember that this is one concrete example a school representative mentioned on how climate (in)security is experienced in NCR. Hays
"The day the paper was published should have been a moment of pride. Instead, it felt like a quiet erasure." #ScienceWorkingLife https://t.co/EpmK1mgQFS
𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆
These are some good introductions and overviews to the field of political sociology - a field that covers the topics studied by Marx and Weber, Tilly, Mann and Skocpol, and many more.
New #OpenAccess paper with my amazing collaborators. We argue that seawalls as adaptation derive their allure from the infrastructural politics of (in)visibility: the strategic deployment of hard infra as visual tools to advance political agendas in the @GlobalSouth. @DSocsp
🇲🇲🇹🇭 New and open access: "State failure and dilemma of security cooperation among neighbouring countries in the Global South: Evidence from Myanmar and Thailand" from @EnzeHan & Sirada Khemanitthathai (@cmuofficial_tw).
👉 Read here: https://t.co/UBmBffTA0c
New article from @pancho_lewis!
Fluid hope in a climate emergency: Lessons from an English citizens’ jury.
Is it possible to have hope for the future in a climate emergency?
https://t.co/cbX36JbxCf
🔍 In our latest blog post, Assistant Professor of International Relations at @AshokaUniv, Ananya Sharma, looks at how the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recalibration of environmental rhetoric - eco‑masculinity - is more than green branding; it’s political theatre. By channeling a ‘strongman’ image through eco‑initiatives, he fuses populism with virile symbolism to consolidate power.
A must-read analysis ⬇️ https://t.co/7CQm83xlx3
Call for Applications: ANHS-KC Grant for Students!
Apply for funding to attend the Annual Kathmandu Conference on Nepal and the Himalaya 2025 🇳🇵🏔️
🗓️ Date: 23-25 July 2025
📍 Location: Kathmandu, Nepal
🗓️ Deadline: 25 June 2025
📣 Calling all early career researchers in environment & climate politics!
The British International Studies Association’s @MYBISA ECP Working Group is now accepting submissions for the Early Career Paper Prize 🏆
This is a fantastic opportunity to showcase your work and gain recognition in the field, especially if you're a researcher based in the #GlobalSouth.
🗓️ Deadline: 5 July 2025
🔗 Learn more and apply here ⬇️ https://t.co/asPM3VqSJ7
See also his article in Development in Practice:
‘Resisting resilience: re-conceptualising “counter-conduct” to environmental (in)justices in Northern Ghana’ [open access]
https://t.co/7z9nCAbNFK
In a new article in Antipode, Clement Amponsah examines why certain well-intentioned resilience interventions fail and (re)produce unintended consequences. Resilience praxis, he argues, appropriates neo-colonial subjectivities and power inequivalence.
https://t.co/c8Hgc3XzvS