The Global South Research Group brings together scholars engaged in research on international political and economic trends, non-European perspectives, and south-south comparisons.
The group is immensely diverse in terms of geographical focus and disciplinary expertise. It includes economists, theorists, historical institutionalists, political sociologists and quantitative political scientists.

Dr Portia Roelofs and Dr Jonathan Leader Maynard are co-directors for the 2025/26 academic year. Professor Jeroen Gunning was the director for the 2024/25 academic year.

 

Research Areas

• Revolutions and political movements
• Markets, culture and transnational governance
• Education policy
• Peace, conflict and tolerance
• Racism
• Religious mobilizations
• Justice
• Inequality
• Institutions and aid
• Political Ideology and identity

Upcoming events

25 September: Discussion - Decolonising/decentring teaching (tbc). Jeroen Gunning    

9 October: GS Departmental Seminar - 'Passing the Colonial Baton in Palestine: The British Mandate, Racial Militarism, and the Permissibility of Violence'. Jasmine Gani, LSE.            

18 October: Politics of the Global South (London collective) Workshop: Towards decolonial research practices - fieldwork ethics, extraction and inclusivity             

23 October: The organisational dimension of network governance: bureaucratic capacity and environmental decentralisation in Colombia. Santiago Quintero.            

6 November: Authoritarian Planning: speculation, spectral infrastructure, and extractivism in Angola. Jon Schubert.     

28 November: Decolonising Journeys in Research and Evaluation. Pradeep Narayan.           

4 December: Beyond a Western Narrative of Terrorism: The Case of Egypt (1952-2011) from a Postcolonial Perspective. Lujain Al-Meligy.  

2026         

19 March: GS Departmental Seminar - 'The mobilization role of parliaments under autocratization'. Rochana Bajpai, SOAS.             

26 March: Forest governance and researching power. Rose Pinnington.       

14 May: Racial capitalism: Perspectives from Pashtun Tahafuz Movement and Black Lives Matter. Maria Tirmiz.            

28 May: Caregiving at the centre of empire and the contemporary world order. Shalini Grover.           

11 June: The value of difference: encounters between Hindus and Muslims in Karachi, Pakistan. Ammara Maqsood.