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Book review: From the First World War to The Arab Spring: What’s Really Going On in the Middle East?

M. E. McMillan (editor)

Authors: Wai Yip Ho

Languaging in digital global South–North spaces in the twenty-first century: media, language and identity in political discourse

Drawing inspiration from two theoretical framings: a sociocultural perspective on languaging and writings on a decolonial-turn, the study presented in this paper center-stages issues related to the need to eng...

Authors: Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta and Aprameya Rao

Rapid urbanization and changing land values in mega cities: implications for housing development projects in Dhaka, Bangladesh

This paper explores changing land values in the process of rapid urbanization in Dhaka, Bangladesh and its implications for urban land management and administration in the megacity. The study reveals that subs...

Authors: Md. Jahangir Alam

Expression of Concern to: Changing climate and its impacts on Assam, Northeast India

The Editor-in-Chief is issuing an editorial expression of concern to alert readers that an allegation of plagiarism has been brought with respect to this article (Das 2016). We have submitted the allegation to...

Authors: Debojyoti Das

Review of In Pursuit of Progress: Narratives of Development on a Philippine Island by Hannah C. M. Bulloch

Bulloch, HCM

Authors: Jozon A. Lorenzana

Open Science, Bandung and Ezekiel: crafting a transnational knowledge space towards the brave new world

To explore a new de-colonial option for the global future, this article grapples with three movements of our time: the ‘Open Science’ movement, the 1955 African-Asian conference and the Non-Aligned Movement, a...

Authors: Pak Nung Wong

Understanding community development in Sekyere Central District, Ghana

Community development is fundamentally about the development of community involving a sense of common identity, capacity and purpose. It can take the form of unpaid active citizenship with community members or...

Authors: Kingsford Gyasi Amakye

TPP, trade-off and eco-system establishment in Taiwan

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a free trade agreement with high standards, affecting multiple industries, and imposing tremendous economic impacts. The TPP accounts for 36% of world GDP and its signifi...

Authors: Jiann-Chyuan Wang, Joe-San Lee and Yu-Chun Ma

Correlates of child undernutrition in Yemen

Malnutrition is part of a vicious cycle involving biological and social aspects. Some factors are directly associated with malnutrition, such as inadequate dietary intake and incidence of disease, while others...

Authors: Laetícia R. De Souza

Looking north or looking anywhere? Indo-Fijian international relations after the coups of May 2000 and December 2006

Between 1987 and 2006 Fiji experienced four coups in which Governments were overthrown by their military forces or parts of it. After the fourth coup in December 2006 old metropolitan friends such as Australia...

Authors: Eberhard Weber

México and the TPP: a critical view on diversification and intellectual property

The Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement was signed on February 4, 2016. The published text confirmed some fears but also brought relief as the details of what had been negotiated became publicly known. This pa...

Authors: Juan Felipe López Aymes

Water and ecological resource governance: the GBB context

Authors: M. Anwar Hossen

Public–private partnership in higher education provision in Tanzania: implications for access to and quality of education

Public–private partnerships (PPPs) in education are presented as capable of resolving several issues of education provision, financing, management, access and quality. This paper aimed at analyzing the impact ...

Authors: Samson John Mgaiwa and Japhace Poncian

Reshaping the Non-Aligned Movement: challenges and vision

With the end of the Cold War, the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) has lost its relevance and significance. Many believed that the international system was moving towards a permanent unipolar new world order. The la...

Authors: S. I. Keethaponcalan

Piracy off the coast of Somalia: implications for China’s maritime security

Piracy off the coast of Somalia in the Gulf of Aden in the Indian Ocean region has become a significant non-traditional security challenge to many nations. The increasing number of such attacks as a result of ...

Authors: Manickam Venkataraman

Relocating labour-intensive manufacturing firms from China to Southeast Asia: a preliminary investigation

China’s rise as a “world factory” since the late 1970s has been attributed to the strategic coupling of local assets in the coastal regions, viz. Pearl River Delta (PRD) and Yangtze River Delta (YRD) in the gl...

Authors: Chun Yang

Sub-Saharan Africa’s engagement with emerging partners: opportunities and challenges

The aim of the paper is to analyze the economic impact of Sub-Saharan Africa’s (SSA) engagement with emerging partners (China, India and Brazil BICs) and to determine the opportunities and challenges of the in...

Authors: Samah S. A. Elmorsy

Changing climate and its impacts on Assam, Northeast India

The paper explores climate change induced hydro hazards and its impact on tribal communities in Majuli (largest river island of Brahmaputra River Basin). The island has been experiencing recurrent floods, eros...

Authors: Debojyoti Das

“Environmentalism of the poor”: the Tipaimukh Dam, ecological disasters and environmental resistance beyond borders

The Indian government recently resumed the construction of the Tipaimukh Dam on the Barak River just 1 km north of Bangladesh’s north-eastern border. The construction work was stalled in March 2007 in the wake...

Authors: Md Saidul Islam and Md Nazrul Islam

Conceptualizing environmental governance on the GBM basin

River water sharing is an issue that is dealt by the South Asian neighboring countries for the last four decades. Water management of Ganges–Brahmaputra Meghna (GBM) basin is a controversial issue, which is no...

Authors: Marufa Akter

Erratum to: Volume 2 of Bandung: Journal of the Global South

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The need for community inclusion in water basin governance in Bangladesh

In this paper we focus on the principle of community inclusion in water and ecological resource governance and document the negative impacts of its absence, in Chapra village, Bangladesh, on sustainable develo...

Authors: M. Anwar Hossen and John R. Wagner

Political history of Farakka Barrage and its effects on environment in Bangladesh

Soon after the partition of the subcontinent in 1947, India took initiative to construct a barrage on its side of the Ganges and commissioned it in 1975. In the past few decades, many of the 54 Bangladeshi Riv...

Authors: Mohammad Abul Kawser and Md. Abdus Samad

Effective supervision of inland capture fisheries of Bangladesh and its hurdles in managing the resources

Community-based approaches have gained significant attention in inland open water fisheries management in Bangladesh. This article focuses on the challenges and opportunities of the inland open water fishery r...

Authors: A. K. M. Firoz Khan, M. G. Mustafa and M. Niamul Naser

Not just another crapshoot development: the challenges and opportunities of modelling after Las Vegas and Macao as an economic development strategy in the 21st century

Recent decades highlight an extraordinary growth of casino gambling all over the world. In the race to build casino-cities, particularly to reap economic and social benefits, most aspirers look to replicate th...

Authors: Paul Vinod Khiatani