This book aims to understand the 'painful truths' of gendered violence in the city and how
women challenge it through resistance and creative practices. Drawing on an extensive …

Whether hailed for transitioning to the ballot box, or condemned for failing to hold elections,
Africa's postcolonial states exhibit profound contradictions in the arena of gender politics …

While much of the mobility of displaced populations is within the Global South, the
scholarship around the criminology of mobility is largely United States/Eurocentric. This …

Women's gold jewelry, particularly in the context of the Indian subcontinent, has been
referred to as a barbaric relic, an uncivilized obsession, and a leakage from the economy …

A growing body of literature reveals how women in higher education are either excluded
from leadership roles or face challenges when they take such responsibilities. The role of …

This study presents a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of the networked frames built in
Twitter trending hashtags by proponents and opponents of abortion legalization in …

How do processes of contestation and resistance, emerging from the constellation of actors,
impact the transitional justice landscape? This article critically explores the dynamic …

Feminist research in critical discourse studies, like other strands of CDS, has been primarily
North-centric. The transdisciplinary nature of this field has led to its theories and methods …

We live in a world disfigured by poverty, inequality, multiple injustices, and planetary threats.
Critical development studies (CDS) seeks to explain why and how and where alternatives …

Although single articles about gender in the Global South have been published once in a
while in the European Journal of Women's Studies, this is the first special issue dedicated …