ABSTRACT Plantation logics have been responsible for devastating transformations of the planet including climate change. While they have shaped the current social and ecological conditions we live with today, they also shape the way we choose to live with those conditions. Among these choices are a set of strategies broadly referred to as climate change adaptation. I describe here how climate change adaptation is shaped by plantation logics through spatially uneven development, dispossession, and racialization. I develop these arguments through an examination of the adaptation regime and its uneven manifestation across the Global South and North. In the end, I turn to an examination of the fundamental limitations of the Plantationocene in capturing contingency, resistance, and alternatives to plantation logics shaping climate change adaptation.

This bibliometric analysis explores stakeholder engagement in climate action decision-making from 2014 to 2024, addressing gaps in understanding its complex, cross-sectoral role. Utilizing a rigorous PRISMA framework, 842 journal articles were systematically reviewed and analyzed with Biblioshiny and VOSviewer. The study aimed to map the intellectual landscape, identify major contributors, with attention to geographic (Global North/South) and inferred racial disparities, prevalent research areas, and distinct engagement typologies. Findings reveal rapid growth in scholarly interest, especially from 2020-2024, underscoring the imperative for inclusive climate solutions. Key themes highlight a human-centric policy focus, acknowledging human actions' influence on climate trajectories, and the critical role of interdisciplinary stakeholder engagement. Engagement typologies fact-finding, collaborative learning, and informed dissemination are crucial for building relationships and effective communication. A significant challenge is the Global North's research dominance and a marginalization of Global South contributions. This imbalance creates context-specific information gaps, risks imposing "Northern" perspectives, and impedes climate justice and equitable global decision-making. The study also notes knowledge and theory-practice gaps hindering effective climate action implementation. To bridge the climate action gap, this paper advocates for equitable, inclusive engagement and innovative solutions. Future research should prioritize amplifying Global South voices for balanced understanding, deepen analysis of institutional logics influencing stakeholder prioritization, and develop robust engagement frameworks addressing implementation gaps and best practice consensus.

ABSTRACT The nature and epistemological foundations of Public Administration (PA) have long been debated, primarily by scholars from the Global North who draw on their own historical and institutional contexts. Recently, leading international journals in Public Administration have increasingly and proactively incorporated the experiences of Global South countries, recognizing the diversity and heterogeneity in how PA is understood and taught. However, these contributions often stop short of engaging with the deeper epistemological and ontological tensions within the PA discipline's intellectual development. This article aims to represent how the Chilean PA community engages the field‐discipline tension through the qualitative analysis of 18 interviews with directors of undergraduate PA programs. The findings highlight a dual challenge: first, a limited understanding of the intellectual traditions shaping PA, which hinders its consolidation as a discipline; and second, a fragmented discourse on interdisciplinarity that lacks coherence and strategic integration. The study contributes to broader discussions on the identity of PA in the Global South.

ABSTRACT International research has shown the significance of care-leavers’ participation in planning for a successful transition from care to young adulthood. While most countries in the Global North have developed policies that allow care-leavers to plan their transition in partnership with a care worker, many countries in the Global South lack policy, programs, and engaged and skilled care workers. This qualitative description study thus aimed to describe how a small sample of Ethiopian female care-leavers from a single institution experience and perceive their participation in the care-leaving process. The study is informed by Lundy’s model of child participation and Elder’s life course theory. Fifteen care-leavers and one care worker participated in the study, involving qualitative interviews. Findings reveal the profound lack of mutual participation in preparation for leaving care, highlighting the need for better skilled care workers and guidelines for participative care-leaving plans.

ABSTRACT With United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325, the United Nations recognized the vital role that women play in promoting the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda. Though there is much focus on women and peace in the architecture of the WPS agenda, its nature, composition, and focus points are often based on Global North considerations. This article aims to address that gap by contributing toward a holistic understanding of women mediators in Africa. Valuing African women’s shared lived experiences as mediators addresses an underexplored area of research and necessitates a decolonial feminist theoretical framework that challenges existing colonial, patriarchal, and gendered notions present in practices of mediation. A qualitative research design was used to collect data via 12 semi-structured participant interviews with women mediators from Africa, after the identification of the literature gap during a state-of-the-art review on the topic. Their gendered, often contradictory experiences as women mediators are explored further in three themes: mediation as a patriarchal space, women as “natural” peacebuilders, and conflicting gender roles and expectations. Direct quotes from their narratives reflect the diverse theories and practices of gender-conscious mediation by women in Africa, as well as their social circumstances and personal experiences, highlighting the diversity of experiences in women’s peacebuilding.

Historically drawing from clinical and scientific methods and principles, evaluation as a discipline has privileged notions such as ‘objectivity’ and replicability, often overlooking the role of power and context. Despite its portrayal as value-neutral and objective, evaluation, like many other discourses, remains steeped in social norms and implicit bias. There is a growing need to recognise and dismantle this entrenched bias, acknowledging the need to move beyond a colonial framework from the Global North with metrics that perpetuate these epistemic hierarchies. Particularly in contexts as complex as anti-trafficking, we argue that evaluation frameworks are rarely neutral and often reflect power asymmetries. Using the case of anti-trafficking debates, this paper argues for a decolonial lens towards research and evaluation frameworks that seek to amplify voices from the Global South. We argue that decolonised evaluative practices can jumpstart the journey towards capturing nuanced realities of affected communities, in more inclusive and contextually relevant ways.

Introduction Perinatal healthcare systems, services and research are shaped by cisheteronormative assumptions, i.e. that families involve one woman who carries a pregnancy and one man who is a non-carrying partner; furthermore, assuming that conception has usually resulted from sexual intercourse, with both parties providing gametes. These assumptions obscure and sometimes exacerbate LGBTQ+ people’s experiences and needs. This evidence synthesis aimed to identify and bring together the experiences of LGBTQ+ people who have faced pregnancy or baby loss; collectively perinatal loss. Methods A qualitative evidence synthesis was conducted using systematic methods. Relevant databases were systematically searched using predefined search terms, and complimented by citation chaining. Eligibility was restricted to empirical qualitative studies published in English, unrestricted by participants’ relationship to the loss (i.e. physically pregnant or not - sometimes respectively described as gestational/birthing or non-gestational/non-birthing parent), type of perinatal loss (e.g. miscarriage, stillbirth), time since loss, setting, publication date, or type of qualitative methodology. Study selection followed a multi-stage screening process. Thematic synthesis was used to analyse and interpret patterns of meaning across included studies. Results Seven studies met the eligibility criteria, reported across 10 papers. All seven were conducted in the Global North (including North America, Australia, and Europe). Thematic synthesis generated one overarching theme - enduring hope and loss – which captured the layers of loss experienced by LGBTQ+ people. This included the complexity of loss, and the loss commonly not being felt as an isolated incident, but rather part of a longer process. The three connected themes were: 1. Investment, which included the effort of navigating cisheteronormative systems, frequently after investing time, finances and emotions in assisted conception. 2. Support in relation to loss, highlighting the challenges of accessing support while being marginalised, excluded, or feeling invisible and, at times, unsafe as an LGBTQ+ family. 3. Meaning-making, in the immediate experience of loss, the aftermath of loss and the care received, and the time beyond. Conclusion Cisheteronormative systems and interactions have potential to amplify loss and contribute to feelings of disenfranchisement amongst LGBTQ+ people. Further research is needed to evaluate support provided, inclusive of implications for subsequent reproductive choices.

This article examines the political displacement of minority communities in gentrifying neighborhoods within ethno-national contested cities. While prior research on gentrification-induced political displacement has primarily centered on class- and race-based marginalization in Global North cities, this study expands the analytical lens to contexts where gentrification is entangled with struggles over sovereignty, national identity, and territorial control. Using a qualitative comparative case study of Israeli mixed cities of Jaffa and Lydda, the research identifies four key expressions of political displacement efforts: (1) delegitimization of minority leadership and representation; (2) exclusion from decision-making and resources; (3) creation of exclusionary ethno-national institutions; and (4) nationalist demonstrations. The study reveals that political displacement in these contexts is not merely a byproduct of demographic change, but a mechanism of ethno-national domination. The study contributes a context-sensitive framework for understanding political displacement in divided/contested cities and highlights broader implications for urban democracy, minority agency, and conflict escalation.

ABSTRACT Trust signals the effectiveness of governance by reflecting citizen confidence in public institutions. This article examines reported trust in civil service and local government, aggregated as public administration, across Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka, using nationally representative Governance and Trust data from 2020–2021 (n = 6240; 2740 in Bangladesh; 2256 in Nepal, and 1244 in Sri Lanka). The findings reveal high levels of trust despite widespread perceptions of corruption, which challenges dominant Global North assumptions that corruption undermines trust. Although corruption remains endemic, regression analysis shows that it does not positively predict citizen trust. This paradox reflects the region’s social orientation, characterised by an authoritarian culture that fosters obedience and loyalty. Citizens also face heavy administrative burdens, including onerous rules and processes. Additionally, given the oppressive governance context in these countries, citizens may overestimate the government’s actions out of fear of harassment. Importantly, as the data predate Sri Lanka’s 2022 and Bangladesh’s 2024 uprisings, this article interprets such trust as conditional, fragile, and likely to collapse when fairness norms weaken or repression intensifies.

Human perceptions of urban wildlife can shape conservation priorities and public support for biodiversity initiatives, however research on human-bird relationships remains spatially biased towards the Global North. Here we assessed the perceptions of 36 urban bird species across four South African urban contexts using a mixed-methods approach. Survey respondents (n = 1,977) rated species likeability on a 5-point Likert scale and provided open-ended explanations for their ratings. Quantitatively, South African urban birds were generally well-liked, with notable variation among species: the Malachite Kingfisher ( Corythornis cristatus , mean ± SE = 4.91 ± 0.02) and Orange-breasted Sunbird ( Anthobaphes violacea , 4.91 ± 0.02) scored highest, and the Common Myna ( Acridotheres tristis , 2.50 ± 0.03) scored lowest. To analyse the approximately 71,000 open-ended responses, we employed ChatGPT, a generative AI large language model, to identify eight themes underlying species appeal. The highest-rated species were primarily valued for aesthetic appeal and emotional connections, while the lowest-rated species were associated with aggressive behaviours and negative ecological impacts. Factor analysis revealed three perceptual clusters, demonstrating that some species evoke multidimensional responses whilst others are viewed through a single dominant lens. Notably, aesthetic patterns did not universally predict appeal and many highly rated raptor species were valued for emotional connections rather than physical traits. Additionally, negative perceptions did not apply uniformly to all non-native or problematic species, with some receiving moderately positive responses despite ecological concerns. These findings highlight the complexity of human-bird relationships in urban contexts and demonstrate that large language models can enable qualitative analysis at large scales. By offering an African perspective, this study contributes to a more inclusive understanding of how urban residents perceive and value birds.

Objective: This study aims to analyze the international scientific production on Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) in the public sector between 2011 and 2024, with a focus on identifying trends, thematic gaps, and opportunities for strengthening institutional sustainability in Brazil. Theoretical Framework: The investigation is grounded in concepts related to sustainability, social responsibility, and public governance, considering ESG as a strategic framework for improving public management through the integration of environmental, social, and governance dimensions. Method: A mixed-methods approach was adopted, combining bibliometric and scientometric techniques applied to the Web of Science database. The analysis encompassed 122 documents and used the VOSviewer software to map citation networks, co-authorship, and keyword co-occurrence. A descriptive case study was also conducted in a federal public institution. Results and Discussion: The findings revealed a significant increase in publications from 2019 onward, with a thematic concentration on the environmental dimension and predominance of studies originating from Global North countries. Brazil’s participation is limited and characterized by fragmented collaboration networks, highlighting the need for greater articulation among researchers and public institutions. Research Implications: This research provides valuable input for the development of sustainable public policies in Brazil, emphasizing the importance of national scientific production, the strengthening of regulatory frameworks, and the expansion of scientific cooperation networks. Originality/Value: This is the first scientometric study specifically focused on ESG in the Brazilian public sector, contributing to the consolidation of an interdisciplinary research agenda and the development of public governance practices aligned with global sustainability challenges.

Social inclusion means being able to participate in activities valued within one's community or wider society as one would wish. People with severe mental illness (i.e., psychoses, bipolar disorder, and severe depression) experience some of the highest rates of social exclusion compared to people with other disabilities. This is the case regardless of the availability of specialist mental health services. Therefore, questions arise about the extent to which mental health services can and do prioritize social inclusion as a goal of service provision, and what strategies are needed outside of mental health services, at the levels of legislation and policy, statutory services, and civil society. In this paper we consider what social inclusion means in different cultures and contexts, since the value attached to different activities varies by culture and by life stage and gender. We discuss the subjective impact of low levels of social inclusion in terms of loneliness, and the evidence base for interventions to address it. We then turn to strategies to increase observable forms of social inclusion, considering them at the levels of legislation, services and other community assets. While evidence for some interventions is largely based on the Global North, we use evidence and examples from the Global South to the extent that we have found them. We also consider the predominant frameworks for social inclusion used in health services, followed by alternatives that may offer a more empowering approach to social inclusion for some people. We then describe strategies to reduce social exclusion through interventions to address stigma and discrimination, directed at key target groups or at population level. We make recommendations for policy makers, researchers, health professionals, and advocates based on the evidence and examples we have found, covering various forms of legislation, services and mental health research. Our conclusions identify the next steps for interventions, including development, evaluation, implementation or modification for better contextual adaptation.

Objective. A comprehensive analysis of the scientific production on family and marital status, as indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection from 2001 to 2024, was conducted. This analysis aimed to identify patterns of international and institutional collaboration, as well as the field’s predominant thematic structures. Design/Methodology/Approach. A bibliometric approach was applied to a dataset of 8,457 articles classified under the Family Studies category in the Web of Science Core Collection. To this end, directed networks of country collaboration, institutional collaboration, and keyword co-occurrence were constructed and analyzed using Gephi. The analysis focused on weighted degree, betweenness centrality, and harmonic closeness centrality, while thematic communities were identified through modularity analysis. Results/Discussion. The findings indicated a field characterized by extensive integration within a hierarchical structure. International and institutional collaboration networks exhibited a pronounced centralization around universities and countries in the Global North, particularly the United States. The thematic structure was organized around a stable relational and psychosocial core centered on family, parenting, marriage, and mental health, alongside specialized communities addressing family violence, inequality, gender and sexual diversity, professional intervention, and academic training. Conclusions. The study of family and marital status is a mature and multidimensional field. While the phenomenon of collaboration is becoming increasingly transnational, the distribution of scientific visibility and agenda-setting remains uneven.

Climate change is the most significant socio-environmental challenges of our time, and education has been recognized as a fundamental strategy to confront it. Yet research efforts have focused more on students than on teachers, despite the latter’s key role in mediating between scientific and curricular knowledge and classroom practice. This study set out to characterize the field of educational research on climate change from the perspective of secondary school teachers. To this end, we conducted a systematic review and bibliometric analysis of 50 peer-reviewed studies from 15 countries (2010–2023). The results show a growing interest over time, with increases associated with international milestones such as the IPCC reports and the Paris Agreement, while declines are observed in connection with political shifts and the COVID-19 pandemic. Consolidated academic reference points were identified, including Eric Plutzer and Maria Ojala, alongside influential international organizations such as the IPCC and UNESCO, suggesting the presence of schools of thought and institutional frameworks that structure the field. Methodologically, descriptive and exploratory studies predominate, with a notable reliance on qualitative and mixed-methods designs using small samples, reinforcing the difficulty of accessing teachers as a research population. Overall, this review highlights significant gaps, particularly the geographical bias toward the Global North, and underscores the urgency of broader, more inclusive, and critically engaged research that positions teachers as essential agents of transformative educational responses to the climate crisis.

This article addresses the collective learnings from studying consumption across various regions to inspire and inform further research on low-carbon transitions and the pursuit of the good life. In order to shed light on the growing dynamism and richness of the field of consumption studies outside traditional circuits of discussion in the so-called global north, this article presents an experimental writing exercise conducted with 16 scholars who study consumption in various countries of the so-called global south, covering countries from Asia, the Middle East, Oceania, Africa and South America. It is structured as a conversation, wherein contributors were asked to reflect on how consumption studies are practised in their regions, and how consumption as an object of study possesses unique features in different countries. The article presents a dialogue of different perspectives and ways of studying consumption, opportunities for expanding this field beyond its origins in more European-rooted scholarly approaches, and insights on the relationship between consumption and challenges posed by the ongoing socio-environmental crisis. After presenting the writing methodology and the structure of the conversation, the text is organised around some key questions posed to the authors who engaged in this dialogue. In doing so, the article highlights the variety and richness of approaches and the specificities of each national context. Additionally, it presents promising new topics that emerged from the collective discussion, crossing different national research contexts.

In Hong Kong’s bustling metropolis, expatriate (‘expat’) bubbles operate as privileged social enclaves, offering their members fruitful access to information, spaces, networks and resources. Some migrants, such as white, male corporates originating from the Global North, readily benefit from expat bubbles as information-gathering spaces. Others face greater challenges in utilising these bubbles to their full potential. This article draws on the stories of 15 self-identified ‘expat’ women, who followed their husbands to Hong Kong, migrating there as dependent visa holders. All faced divorce after arrival, but nevertheless decided to remain. I use this article to specifically explore how this population sought to leverage expat bubbles during three stages: after arrival, during relationship breakdown and post-divorce. I highlight the information-sharing benefits that these women gained from participating in expat bubbles, along with the challenges they faced, especially during the relationship breakdown period. Through their accounts, I investigate expat bubbles in action, demonstrating their effectiveness as information-sharing mechanisms while simultaneously revealing them to be privileged sub-societies, which not all migrants can enter or benefit from.

abstract This article describes early analysis from the Achieving Gender Justice in Education project, involving 20 open-ended ‘storytelling’ interviews as an approach to narrative inquiry with educators and administrators from three Canadian provinces. Participants describe various forms of gender-based violence and discrimination experienced in schools, including inappropriate touching, sexual harassment, unwillingness to enhance school safety for girls and 2SLGBTQ+ students, and blocking of such initiatives by community members. They also convey substantive efforts to fight for the rights of girls and 2SLGBTQ+ students and support boys to embody positive interpretations of masculinity. This paper analyzes the experiences and considers how the stories might inform the practical application of gender justice and transformation in schools. Gender transformation is a term used primarily in international development, building on a premise that problematically suggests that Global South societies need transformation whereas Global North societies are transformed. This research highlights that, while it is important to attend to the context of violence, the call for gender transformation should extend to all countries and societies, not only those in the Global South.

ABSTRACT On recent years, various calculative devices based on algorithmic systems and artificial intelligence (AI), have facilitated the quantification and reinterpretation of diverse concepts, such as wellbeing. In this context, we examine a Chilean start-up that aims to promote the well-being of companies’ employees by fostering healthy habits, encouraging social donations, and ensuring financial security, along with managing employee benefits for their clients. At the core of their business lies their smartphone application, through which these dimensions are both measured and modified, as well as the different AI models that inform their recommendation systems and analytics. In this paper, we investigate the production of a definition of well-being within these emerging business models through interviews with key members of the organization and conducting an ethnographic study of the platform. We propose that both AI and well-being function as rhetorical devices, serving as capture mechanisms for capital, partners, clients, and users, thus enabling the platform to operate successfully. Taking from Boltanski and Thévenot regimes of justification, we argue that the role of AI in such assemblages surpasses its calculative capabilities and instead serves as a rhetorical device of conscription, framed through and for the Global North.

The article analyzes the current state and prospects of educational cooperation within the BRICS framework. The authors emphasize that such interaction is based on the recognition of education as a key right and a factor in sustainable development, as well as a tool for countering disinformation. A key trend is the focus of professional education on labor market needs. The article also notes significant challenges: the dominance of «Global North» approaches, language and logistical barriers, sanctions restrictions, and asymmetric access to technology. Digitalization and AI, while mitigating some barriers, are creating new challenges in the areas of ethics and digital competencies. Priority areas of cooperation include the development of multilingualism and educational resources in national languages, academic mobility, mutual recognition of qualifications, joint research, and the creation of a unified digital educational environment. It is concluded that deepening educational and scientific-technical integration within BRICS contributes to strengthening the humanitarian sovereignty of member countries, creates a talent pool, and lays the foundation for sustainable development in a multipolar world.

ABSTRACT This study investigates the effects of work permit procedures and rules in Türkiye on the legal status of migrants. Drawing on the literature on critical migration studies, it argues that work permit procedures in Türkiye position migrants within a legal category that can be described as semi‐regular. In this study, semi‐regularity refers to the legal status of migrants who possess the right to reside legally (e.g., through a residence permit or temporary protection status) but participate in the labour market without a work permit. Migrants experience this semi‐regular status differently in the labour market depending on their country of origin. Furthermore, unlike irregular migrants, those with semi‐regular status have access to some services, but in contrast to fully regular migrants, their access to services remains only partial. Research to date has largely focused on migrants in the Global North and this study broadens the literature on migrants' legal status by providing an example from Türkiye, a country of the Global South.