Situating sexuality: An interconnecting research agenda in the urban global south

Geoforum ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 117 ◽  
pp. 287-290
Author(s):  
Andrew Tucker ◽  
Neil R. Hassan
Keyword(s):  
Research Agenda ◽  
Global South

scholarly journals NICHE TOURISM IN SOUTH AFRICA: A RENEWED POLICY FOCUS IN THE COVID-19 ENVIRONMENT

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (4 supplement) ◽  
pp. 1379-1387
Author(s):  
Christian M. ROGERSON ◽  
◽  
Jayne M. ROGERSON ◽  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Global South ◽  
Policy Agenda ◽  
Demand And Supply ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
Policy Interest

The COVID-19 pandemic is a catalyst for new patterns of demand and supply for the tourism sector. One consequence is a renewed policy interest in the importance of niche tourism products for destination development. This paper investigates the importance of niche tourism and its (re-) emergence on the policy agenda of tourism stakeholders in South Africa. It is argued that with a resurgence of niche tourism as policy focus there is a need for an extended research agenda on niche tourism in South Africa. The analysis represents a contribution to the changing agendas of tourism scholarship in the global South which have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

scholarly journals Greening and Just Cities: Elements for Fostering a South–North Dialogue Based on a Systematic Literature Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniele Tubino de Souza ◽  
Pedro Henrique Campello Torres
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Green Infrastructure ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Global South ◽  
Bibliographic Databases ◽  
The North ◽  
Global North ◽  
Similarities And Differences

The design and deployment of green amenities is a way to tackle cities' socio-environmental problems in the quest for urban sustainability. In this study, we undertake a systematic review of research published in international peer-reviewed journals that analyzes environmental justice issues within the context of the deployment of urban green amenities. Since most studies focus on the Global North, where this scholarship first emerged, our goal is to link the literature focused on the North and the South. This study aims to outline similarities and differences regarding the nexus of justice and the greening of cities in both contexts as well as to identify knowledge gaps in this scholarship in the Global South. “Green infrastructure” and “nature-based solutions,” as the leading concepts for cities' greening agendas, are used as descriptors in combination with “justice” and/or “green gentrification” in searches undertaken of two bibliographic databases. Our results show there is a need to better delineate a research agenda that addresses such issues in a heterogeneous Global South context while gaining insights from advances made by research on the Global North.

scholarly journals Big Data from the South(s): Beyond Data Universalism

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 319-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefania Milan ◽  
Emiliano Treré
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Global South ◽  
The South ◽  
Critical Data ◽  
The Core ◽  
Critical Engagement ◽  
The World ◽  
Ways Of Thinking

This article introduces the tenets of a theory of datafication of and in the Souths. It calls for a de-Westernization of critical data studies, in view of promoting a reparation to the cognitive injustice that fails to recognize non-mainstream ways of knowing the world through data. It situates the “Big Data from the South” research agenda as an epistemological, ontological, and ethical program and outlines five conceptual operations to shape this agenda. First, it suggests moving past the “universalism” associated with our interpretations of datafication. Second, it advocates understanding the South as a composite and plural entity, beyond the geographical connotation (i.e., “global South”). Third, it postulates a critical engagement with the decolonial approach. Fourth, it argues for the need to bring agency to the core of our analyses. Finally, it suggests embracing the imaginaries of datafication emerging from the Souths, foregrounding empowering ways of thinking data from the margins.

scholarly journals Violence in the Rural Global South

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 270-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vania Ceccato ◽  
Heloise Ceccato
Keyword(s):  
Organized Crime ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Population Change ◽  
Global South ◽  
Official Statistics ◽  
The Past ◽  
National Media ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
The Media

The aim of this article is to discuss the trends and nature of rural violence in Brazil. Assuming the hypothesis of an increase in violence rates, urban–rural violence rates are compared at three geographical levels: national (Brazil), state (São Paulo), and municipal (Rio Claro). The study combines the analyses of official statistics with newspaper reports, videos, and articles published by the national media. Findings indicate an increase in violence in rural areas in recent decades but such a rise is far from homogenous across the country; it shows links to patterns of population change, economic expansion, and organized crime. Although violence has long being an inherent characteristic of rural Brazil—a place of conflicts and struggles—it is argued here that the more recent rise in violence is distinct from the past, at least in its portrayal by the media. The article finalizes by suggesting a research agenda to improve the understanding of the dynamics of violence in the Brazilian context.

Moving Global IR Forward—A Road Map

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 830-852 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maiken Gelardi
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Global South ◽  
Local Context ◽  
The Core ◽  
Road Map ◽  
Key Issues

Abstract Many disciplinary analyses have exposed international realtions (IR) as a Western-centric discipline, unaware of or unconcerned with its own ethnocentric outlook. A growing consensus in the global IR framework argues that it is time to move beyond disciplinary critique, but scholars disagree on how to proceed. Three key issues are still being debated: who can speak, how to go local, and how to make the local global. This article confronts these questions by offering three interlinked contributions. First, it develops a typology of scholarly profiles by combining the typically isolated debates on scholarly origin, embeddedness within local context, and location. Second, the article identifies three main strategies for discovering and developing theories outside the core. Third, it offers four different avenues for applying local theories to the larger global canvas, underlining that Global South theories should not necessarily be limited to their “own” regions. Together these three contributions constitute a comprehensive roadmap for how to advance global IR's research agenda. The article provides examples focused on Latin America, highlighting the benefits of the roadmap while also giving agency to regional theoretical debates that are often overlooked in the Global IR debate.

scholarly journals Replicable quality across every channel: the Busara research agenda on methods in the Global South

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Busara Lab Busara Lab ◽  
Winnie Mughogho ◽  
Nicholas Calbraith Owsley
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Data Quality ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Behavioral Science ◽  
Global South ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Specific Measurement ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
Cultural Validation

Any act of measurement brings with it concerns about data quality and replication. Yet very little of this work has focused in detail on the specific measurement and data quality concerns related to conducting research in the Global South. Busara operates both remote and in-person data collection, employing everything from photovoice to laboratory ‘games’ to list experiments. Across both of these domains, we will build on our long tradition of careful testing of measures and techniques to ensure high levels of access, response, attention and comprehension. We will examine what methodological practices work best for various populations, especially those with the least social power, in the Global South, to maintain data quality (this differs from our closely related program of work on cross-cultural validation of behavioral science constructs). Busara is well-positioned to do this, and to disseminate protocols for the use of these methods.

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