Becoming serious young men: Joblessness, platform enterprising, and the contradictory production of Amazon reselling in North India

Radical Ecological Economics is a more appropriate way for collaboration with communities in the Global South. It transcends the conceptual and methodological premises of Ecological Economics, integrating realities that are not commonly considered, but exist and actively resist throughout the world. The text addresses three major areas: 1) the broadening of the understanding of the social, not only as “the human” but as the encounter of complex structures of organization, of biological and cultural reproduction, of identity reaffirmation and even the search for autonomy in the face of historical oppressions whose leadership is entrusted to a Revolutionary Communitarian Subject; 2) the understanding that, within this social complexity, there are realities that are not generally considered, in which the natural endowment and goods for consumption and enjoyment are not allocated by market mechanisms; where production is organized as part of the social fabric; in which surpluses take multiple material and non-material forms, and are distributed for the common good (human and non-human); and in which socioecological metabolic configurations are nourished by historical cosmovisions that respect the biophysical limits of ecosystems; 3) REE has clear ontological, epistemological, methodological, and political foundations, taking into account a diversity of realities. This formulation offers a comprehensive method to understand the multiple worlds and approaches of millenarian societies that now are forging worlds outside the capitalist model by communities committed to alleviating the multi-scale crisis that afflicts them.

In densely populated megacities of the global south, rapid urbanization and limited land availability pose significant challenges to socially just and environmentally resilient redevelopment. Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) is often promoted as a compact, mixed-use alternative to car-oriented sprawl, yet its implementation unfolds through contested stakeholder politics that shape who bears costs and who captures benefits over time. This study examines how key stakeholders—including authorities, landowners, developers, and academicians—perceive and negotiate TOD-based redevelopment in Dhaka, Bangladesh, focusing on conflicts around land consolidation, distrust, governance fragmentation, and risks of exclusion and gentrification. Drawing on qualitative methods such as key informant interviews, participatory appraisal, matrix‐based prioritization of obstacles, and SWOT analysis across three TOD typologies, the research identifies how power asymmetries and institutional fragmentation constrain inclusive sustainability, just transition, and long-term socioecological transformation. The findings reveal that governance fragmentation, institutional distrust, and exclusion of vulnerable groups constitute more severe obstacles than technical or financial constraints. Given severe data limitations—notably a very small landowner sample and reliance on perceived rather than observed outcomes—the findings are interpreted as exploratory insights into how TOD shapes future urban inequalities and environmental performance, rather than as statistically generalizable evidence. Policy implications are framed as three conditional pathways: (1) Equity-contingent pathway suggest strategical involvement of vulnerable groups when power asymmetries are high; (2) Conflict-responsive pathway promotes transparent decision-documentation systems to address diverge interests; (3) Scale-dependent pathway requires nested governance structures linking neighborhood, municipal, and regional decision-making of TOD implementation.

Equity in basic medical education accreditation: A scoping review.

A systematic literature review of the intersection between English Medium Instruction and English for Academic Purposes in higher education: Global North and South perspectives

Nature-based solutions, ecosystem services, and human well-being in global south mangroves: a review

The intensification of urbanization has exacerbated the urban heat islands effect, potentially amplifying energy consumption and posing risks to thermal comfort and human health. Urban vegetation offers significant potential for mitigating extreme thermal events and reducing surface urban heat island effects. However, effective urban planning requires considering the interactions between vegetation and built structures, rather than solely focusing on green cover parameters. Considering this interaction and three-dimensional metrics, we applied a spatially explicit approach and linear mixed models to evaluate how the landscape structure impacts the climate regulation ecosystem services provision chain in São Paulo (Brazil), the largest metropolis in the Southern Hemisphere. While composition metrics, particularly total vegetation cover, are the primary factors explaining local climate regulation service supply, configuration metrics also significantly influence this service. Specifically, vegetation edge density positively impacted service supply, whereas building edge density had a negative effect. Additionally, arboreal volume and the interface between vegetated and built areas contributed to lowering land surface temperatures, suggesting that green spaces should be not only abundant but also strategically distributed in fragmented patches to maximize contact with built surfaces and enhance urban cooling. Furthermore, our analysis revealed spatial mismatches between service supply and demand, identifying high-risk areas where insufficient climate regulation could exacerbate health vulnerabilities during extreme events. These findings offer crucial insights for urban planners, highlighting the need to expand green areas and integrate them within built environments, especially in locations where supply does not meet local demand, in order to enhance adaptive capacity to heat. • Urbanization increases urban heat islands, but landscape structure role is unclear • Spatially evaluate climate regulation ecosystem service provision in São Paulo • Although vegetation cover effect is stronger, landscape configuration has a key role • Identified areas with climate regulation ecosystem service supply-demand mismatches • Provide key insights for public policies aiming to mitigate climate change effects

This article offers a comparative analysis of The Great Indian Kitchen (2021) and its Hindi adaptation, Mrs. (2024), two films that examine the emotional and physical toll of domestic labor and patriarchal control within Indian households. Through an exploration of everyday spaces, the kitchen, the dining table, and the bedroom, the article traces how both protagonists navigate marital expectations, silent surveillance, and cultural rituals that normalize female subordination. By situating these films within both Global North and South feminist discourses, this study highlights how cinematic storytelling critiques and also reproduces cultural norms, revealing the shifting politics of gendered labor across regional and national contexts. Thus, the article examines how feminist resistance can be portrayed through different cinematic vocabularies, offering new ways to think about gender, labor, and autonomy in contemporary Indian cinema.

Literature reviews have become increasingly prominent in scientific discourse; however, few have critically examined the geographic distribution of research, particularly in the field of biometeorology, where studies remain disproportionately concentrated in the Global North. Building on previous regional reviews and special issues, this paper critically examines geographic disparities in publication trends, authorship, and methodological approaches to aid in identifying challenges and opportunities for equitable and justified future research. Using a PRISMA-style framework, 591 empirical studies conducted across 147 Global South countries were identified from a total of 3,046 publications in the International Journal of Biometeorology (IJBM) between 2000 and 2024. The review reveals a steady increase in contributions from the Global South over time, but highlights persistent gaps in representation, especially in author affiliation and research leadership. Thematic and methodological analyses highlight the diversity and innovation present in Global South contexts, while also revealing structural barriers to equitable participation in the field. This work advocates for more inclusive research practices and enhanced institutional support to bridge the divide between the Global North and South, fostering a more representative and collaborative future for biometeorology.

ABSTRACT Research on cybercrimes, or offenses facilitated by technology, has increased dramatically over the last three decades. The primary focus of research within this space has been on victim and offender behavior, with far less inquiry as to the structural capacities of local, state, and federal or national police forces to investigate these crimes. This calls to question what the state of research on policing and its relationship to cybercrime involves, and what areas must be expanded upon in order to improve our knowledge base. This study addresses this gap in the literature through a synthetic review of qualitative and quantitative articles addressing policing throughout the global north and south. The implications for this study for future research are explored in detail.

Abstract Urbanization is accelerating rapidly, particularly across Asia and Africa. Since 2000, sustainable urbanization (SU) has been central to global policy agendas, including the Sustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda. This study employs bibliometric analysis and a systematic literature review (SLR) to examine 1913 Scopus-indexed articles (2000–2024), addressing three research questions: (1) What scholarship trends have emerged in sustainable urbanization and urban informality (SU-UI) research over the last 25 years? (2) Are manifestations of urban informality (UI) in the Global South (GS) primarily associated with limitations in formal planning frameworks or governance deficiencies, and what are the possible ways forward? (3) In the global agenda on sustainability, which primarily aims to address urbanization challenges, how much progress have cities around the world made towards SU? China, the United States, and the United Kingdom are the most productive contributors to SU-UI scholarship, while research on UI from India and on SU from China carries considerable global influence. Formal planning frameworks in many developing countries exhibit limited alignment with local urban dynamics, generating sociospatial challenges, while governance arrangements in the GS require reform to better reflect global sustainability objectives. Cities in the Global North (GN) demonstrate comparatively greater progress towards SU, offering context-dependent lessons for the GS. Future research directions include the investigation of southern-inclined planning and governance approaches, spatial analyses of SU-UI using geographic information systems methodologies, and how emerging post-2030 global development frameworks may reshape research priorities and policy directions in SU-UI.

Contemporary penal change is often explained as an institutionally mediated outcome of political, cultural, and social transformations that vacillate between affinity for retributive and rehabilitative penal measures. The retributive approach to punishment is typically associated with symbolic gestures and conflict, whereas the rehabilitative approach is linked to austerity and a drive to create docile bodies that are less inclined to resist. Although widespread in the field, this explanatory framework has recently been critiqued as a “pendular perspective,” a perpetual rebounding between poles that ignores the persistent presence of symbolic charge and conflict within modern punishment—traits especially visible both in the penal measures that target marginalized populations globally and in the Global South's institutional penal landscape. Drawing on Michel Foucault's work from the early 1970s, this article conceptualizes punishment as a discursive act and presents it as a means of transcending the so-called pendular perspective on penal change. It argues that modern punishment—including in its rehabilitative forms—remains symbolically charged and capable of fostering conflict because it enacts a comprehensive moral horizon for subjectivation. This horizon includes not only docile bodies, but also oppositional and consensus-challenging positions such as delinquency, insurrection, resistance, and counter-conduct. Despite the presuppositions of the pendular perspective, penal change thus arises from a historically contingent need to alter an arrangement of conflictual subjective positions, the latter having undergone no core changes since the dawn of modernity in Western societies.

ABSTRACT Maintaining organizational legitimacy is particularly important for non-governmental organizations (NGOs) who bind their constituency by their morally good mission. Yet, what and how do NGOs communicate if they fail their mission? This study investigates international environmental NGOs’ responses to the heavily criticized 29th United Nations climate conference in Baku. Borrowing from storytelling theory, it analyses the textual and visual narratives that the leading NGOs World Wildlife Fund and Greenpeace put forward on owned and shared digital media to communicate the negative conference outcomes. A thematic analysis of 278 official website entries, Instagram and Facebook posts revealed which villains and victims the NGOs emphasize, how they construct their own roles during climate negotiations, and how coherent their narratives are across their national offices. The results show that both NGOs told failure stories criticizing the climate agreements and allocated the responsibility mainly to political leadership of the Global North, not acknowledging their own role and influence on the outcomes. Differences in the narratives of Global North and South offices emerged that, in the case of Greenpeace, showed a divide within the organization. The study provides a novel approach to narrative analysis and zooms into a particularly insightful case of transnational NGO communication.

Reclaiming nursing theory in the global south: Toward a contextually relevant framework.

Mapping the literature on alternative food systems in the Global South. A scoping review

Understanding gendered empowerment of MRT commuters in the global south: A Bayesian Belief Network of psychological determinants in Dhaka, Bangladesh

This study examines the relationship between income inequality and mental well-being, conceptualized as the relative absence of psychological distress. Focusing on data from the 2021 International Social Survey Programme, the analysis explores how country-level income inequality, measured by the Gini index, is associated with individual mental well-being in both high-income (Global North) and low- to middle-income (Global South) countries. Multilevel analyses reveal a significant negative association between income inequality and mental well-being in the Global South. In contrast, this association was not statistically significant in the Global North. These findings suggest that higher income inequality is linked to poorer mental well-being, particularly in contexts of greater economic disparity. The study underscores the importance of considering macroeconomic factors like income inequality in public health strategies aimed at promoting mental well-being.

Purpose This paper examines how the Huilo Huilo Music Festival in Chile shapes career pathways and professional learning for emerging classical musicians. It analyses how its programming, festivalscapes and community engagement constitute a learning ecology and sociomaterial environment that function as intermediation, legitimising artistic practice, building career capital and supporting entry into international music networks through Latin American and Global South circuits of recognition rather than Eurocentric gatekeeping. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative case study drew on 81 Instagram reels posted between 2022 and 2025, alongside festival website materials, public documents, organisational participation data and news coverage. Reels were analysed primarily for their spoken and narrative content, supported by observation of visual context such as background settings. Forty-one reels contained 70 interview segments with participants and stakeholders, with several individuals appearing multiple times, including the festival directors, instructors and participating musicians. Materials were transcribed and analysed to examine how the festival operates as an intermediary that supports emerging Latin American musicians' career development locally, regionally and internationally, and how it constructs and communicates educational, professional and community value. Findings Huilo Huilo Music Festival operates as a cultural intermediary, assembling a four-part learning ecology. It builds cultural infrastructure by addressing access gaps via territorial embedding, school outreach and regional connectivity. It cultivates disciplined capability through compressed routines, standards, feedback and confidence under pressure. It enacts place-based learning in Patagonia, where landscape, nature and supports, including luthier work, shape focus, affect regulation and artistic meaning. It brokers careers through prizes, residencies, post-festival performances and endorsement, turning recognition into mobility and career capital. Narratives shift from Chile–Brussels validation to participant-centred Latin American identity and Global South recognition. Research limitations/implications The analysis relies on secondary and curated digital data, without primary data collection. This constrains triangulation and limits access to learning processes that occur beyond what organisers and participants choose to share. Although the dataset supports longitudinal analysis of the festival's development over time, it cannot capture participants' post-festival trajectories, which are essential for assessing longer-term career development and the durability of intermediation effects. Future research should combine on-site observation with follow-up interviews and longer-term tracking of artists' pathways, alongside attention to local cultural change and the consolidation of Latin American music networks. Practical implications Festival organisers and policymakers can position music festivals as long-term talent development infrastructures by designing them as intentional learning ecologies. This requires continuity across editions through sequenced training pathways, sustained mentoring, peer collaboration and embedded reflective practice rather than treating development as optional. Place can be mobilised as a pedagogical resource, with the natural environment supporting concentration, well-being and artistic sensibility, while strengthening local engagement, access pathways and locally grounded cultural capital. At the network level, the festival can consolidate Latin American brokerage through equitable partnerships, transparent credentialing and alumni tracking and narratives of excellence that resist Eurocentric hierarchies. Originality/value This paper reframes the Huilo Huilo Music Festival as a learning ecology that shapes emerging musicians' professional formation through intertwined pedagogical, organisational and place-based mechanisms. It extends festival intermediation theory by showing how a rural festival operates simultaneously as a mentoring ecosystem and a broker that connects local, regional and international music networks. By situating the case within Chilean and Latin American cultural and policy conditions, it clarifies why the festival matters and what becomes possible and contested, in this specific environment.

Can a universal digital ethics exist in a structurally unequal world? A critical theory perspective on Web3, metaverse, and the global south

In 2023, the African Fashion Research Institute (AFRI) developed The Fold, a programme with three projects that traced fold words, fashions and concepts as ways of collating knowledges. In this article we follow The Fold’s projects as routes to practices of making, wearing, remembering, speaking and listening to unfold and voice (k)new fashion discourses and vernaculars. These practices are “new” to readers in the global north but largely “known” ways and wisdoms that have survived in the global south despite widespread colonial efforts at erasure. The project’s focus on folds draws on the intersections of language, material cultures, community, oral-material histories, afro-sustainability and creative pan-African research. As researcher-creators, our collective interests in afrocentric fashion imaginaries, redress, Indigenous sovereignty and pluriversal identities underpins The Fold’s projects, namely a new kind of archive of words in the form of a glossary; a placeholder of oral-material histories in the form of a podcast; and, an exploration of decentering knowledge praxis as embodied creative research in residence. We share the coauthored entanglements explored across these projects as experimental modalities, as they produce and mediate different histories and material archives that offer routes to (k)new knowledges about and with fashion from the continent.