Introduction

This Blog is an interactive space for UVic Political Science Graduate students and Faculty. We welcome your commentaries on contemporary events and issues relating to the Global South.

In our latest blog, Reeta Tremblay discusses the social and political dimensions of the Covid 19 crisis in India. This continues our mini series on the COVID 19 crisis and the Global South.

Previously in this series, Lynn Ng Yu Ling and Dr. Feng Xu compare elder care work in Singapore and China in the context of COVID 19. See Part 1 and Part 2. Lynn Ng Yu Ling (Part 1 and Part 2) has also decried discrimination against migrant workers as Singapore fights Covid 19.

While you are here, do check out our other commentaries: Michelle Bonner’s conversation on her book ‘Tough on Crime: The Rise of Punitive Populism in Latin America’ (2019). Guoguang Wu’s conversation on his book ‘Globalization against Democracy: A Political Economy of Capitalism after its Global Triumph’; ‘Modi ushers in a new intolerant India and revokes multicultural democracy‘ by Reeta Tremblay; Oliver Schmidtke and Colin Bennett’s piece on refugee support; Eyene Okpanachi’s essay on ‘Development’ and the Global South: Theories, Praxes and Practices, Janice Dowson’s Land Expropriation without Compensation: Is it a Threat to South African Constitutionalism?; an overview by Michelle Bonner on her new co-edited book,‘Police Abuse in Contemporary Democracies’; Marlea Clarke’s “Global South: what does it mean and why use the term?”; Oduro-Marfo’s take on Cambridge Analytica’s involvement in African Politics and Reeta Tremblay’s piece, “Kathua case offers BJP a chance to salvage image in Kashmir“.

Reeta Tremblay on behalf of the Global South Faculty, UVic, Political Science

The fraught history of India and the Khalistan movement

The Indian government has warned its citizens living in Canada to exercise “extreme caution” due to a “deteriorating security environment” in the country. The warning came after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that Canadian police were investigating...

Update: Changes to Editorial Team

We welcome Yunhui Ye as our new Associate Editor, replacing David Romero Espitia, who is moving on to bigger and better things. A huge thank you, David, from all your Global South colleagues! For submission inquiries, please contact Yunhui at yunhuiye@uvic.ca Feng Xu

Update: Changes to Editorial Team

We welcome David Romero as our new Associate editor, replacing Smith Oduro-Marfo who is moving on to bigger and better things after the completion of his doctoral work. A huge thank you, Smith, from all your Global South colleagues! Meanwhile, I will be handing over...

Expert Q&A on COVID-19 crisis in India

After a relatively successful handling of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, India is experiencing record numbers of new cases that have overwhelmed the country’s healthcare system and resulted in significant loss of life. UVic political scientist, Reeta...

Eldercare during the Covid-19 Pandemic: China and Singapore

Introduction The global Covid-19 pandemic has shone a spotlight on the dire conditions of long-term care facilities in many countries of the world. In Canada, especially in the provinces of British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec, long-term care facilities were hardest...

Eldercare during the Covid-19 Pandemic: China and Singapore – Pt. 2

By: Lynn Yuling Ng and Dr. Feng Xu Measures taken during the pandemic and the implications for care workers The most extensive measures the Singapore government has taken to date in response to COVID-19 include a series of “circuit-breaker” measures to enforce social...

The post-pandemic Singapore we want to see (Part II)

(Lynn Ng Yu Ling) As mentioned in Part 1 of this essay, the Singapore government’s COVID-19 response has been shaped by entrenched inequalities between citizens and migrants. While there has been global acclaim for Singapore’s containment of the crisis, a closer look...

Singapore’s response to COVID-19: The Gold Standard for Whom?

Singapore’s reputation for enforcing law and order has once again been held up as the gold standard as comparative policy makers assess responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. The government reacted preemptively and promptly in rolling out wage subsidy and welfare...

An Interview with Michelle D. Bonner on her book, ‘Tough on Crime: The Rise of Punitive Populism in Latin America’ (2019)

Congratulations, Michelle, on your new book - Tough on Crime: The Rise of Punitive Populism in Latin America. Thanks for sitting down with us—your Global South Colleagues, Marlea Clarke, Reeta Tremblay, Guoguang Wu and Feng Xu—to explore in detail the concept of...

Exploring the “Globalization-against-Democracy” Pitfall

Prof. Guoguang Wu in conversation with Can Zhao (Doctoral Candidate, University of Victoria) on his book 'Globalization against Democracy: A Political Economy of Capitalism after its Global Triumph' (Cambridge University Press, 2017, in hardcover and paperback)....