Publicaties

The practice of Global North (i.e., “richer” globalized countries located in the northern hemisphere, except for Australia and New Zealand) researchers making roundtrips to the Global South (i.e., “poorer” developing countries located around the tropics and in the Southern hemisphere) to collect materials and then process, analyze, and publish results with little to no involvement from local collaborators is referred to as “helicopter research” ...

Using a city-centred approach to development issues, this article critiques the recent concept of 'Global South'. With its provenance from the 'South' half of the 1970s 'North-South divide', the concept recognizes the transformations of the world economy since the 1970s, latterly known as globalization, by adding the adjective 'global' but leaves the geography undisturbed: the map of 'South' in 'Global South' is the same as in the North-South ...

InfoCitizen explores how new forms of datafication change citizenship practices in the Global South by charting grassroots and institutional data efforts and their impact on identity, citizenship and policy in Brazil, Portugal, Germany, Tanzania and Kenya. Combining archival research, digital humanities, audiovisual techniques and mixed methods, InfoCitizen examines how top-down and bottom- up data ecosystems come together to redefine the ...

After the former president of China, Hu Jintao, advocated the “harmonious society” and “harmonious world” concepts, current President Xi Jinping’s global initiatives are more illustrative of China being more proactive on theworld scene. In allthese initiatives, China has attested to “silent pragmatism”, grasping opportunities devoid of any ideological preference.More than being out to destroy the Bretton Woods’s institutions or later ...

Minority religious movements such as Jehovah’s Witnesses, Latter-day Saints (LDS or Mormons), or Seventh-day Adventists have adherents in many countries. They are commonly viewed as part of New Religious Movements (NRM’s). In this paper I will examine how Sub-Saharan African women migrating to Europe find in NRMs a spatial and human environment that could facilitate their sociocultural integration. It is part of a broader qualitative study of ...

The mangrove distribution in South Africa is fragmented and restricted to small forest patches occupying only 16 % of the estuaries within the current range. In this study we used species distribution models to test (1) whether the absence of mangrove forest and its species (Avicennia marina, Bruguiera gymnorrhiza and Rhizophora mucronata) within their current range is driven by climate or by climate combined with human or geomorphic ...