This special issue asks what happens to international research and collaboration when the
research community becomes temporarily immobilized. The COVID-19 global pandemic …

This book explores relationships between war, displacement and city-making. Focusing on
people seeking refuge in Somali cities after being forced to migrate by violence …

This research aims to contribute to debates on the decolonization of research in an African
context with a focus on Gulu City in Northern Uganda. It seeks to investigate the key …

Open access (OA) journal publishing is presented in the literature as both an opportunity for
and a threat to academics, authors and higher education systems. Institutions with …

This article seeks to move beyond the Euro/North-centrism recurrent in methodological
discussions on what we may learn from the COVID-19 pandemic. Such debates often centre …

As field researchers have increasingly explored the methodological 'backstage'of their
fieldwork, the relationship between researcher and assistant has come to the fore. While the …

Tracing the persistence of community health workers (CHWs) as a key category in both
global health policy and anthropological representation, this article asks how enduring …

This article explores some of the consequences of open access (OA) for scholars in the
global South, centring on what constitutes their equal participation in the global circuit of …

Calls for political science and related disciplines to inform public debates and contribute to
public policy have proliferated in recent years. Scholars increasingly work with high-level …

In Africa's history of peace, conflict, and security, one of the most challenging dynamics is the
evolution of violent extremism. Despite the magnitude of this problem, most of the …