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Global South Political Commentaries (GSPC) group is as an initiative of the Global South Faculty in the department of Political Science Faculty (Drs. Bonner, Clarke, Tremblay, Wu and Xu) at the University of Victoria. We encourage members of the department, particularly graduate students, to contribute commentaries which relate to the Global South region (Africa, Asia, and Latin America). Feel free to contact anyone of us. See below for our contact information.

 

Members

Michelle Bonner

Michelle Bonner

Michelle Bonner has expertise in Latin American politics, concentrating her work on Argentina and Chile. Her research interests include the politics of policing, media and politics, democratic accountability, social protest, democratization, social movements, gender, transitional justice, and human rights.

Email: mbonner@uvic.ca
Phone: 250-853-3561

Website: www.uvic.ca/socialsciences/politicalscience/people/directory/bonnermichelle

Marlea Clarke

Marlea Clarke

Marlea Clarke’s research interests include African political economy and development; labour and migration; globalization, labour and social movements; and post-colonial transitions to democracy in southern Africa. Her current research interests focus on changing patterns of trade and global production of clothing, especially regional production networks and labour standards in sub-Saharan Africa.

Email: mjclarke@uvic.ca
Phone: 250-721-6487

Website: www.uvic.ca/socialsciences/politicalscience/people/directory/clarkemarlea

Reeta Tremblay

Reeta Tremblay

Reeta Tremblay‘s major areas of research are identity-based politics and secessionist movements (Kashmir) in South Asia, the politics of subaltern resistance and accommodation in post-colonial societies, democracy and governance, and comparative federalism.

Email: reeta@uvic.ca
Phone: 250-853-3582

Website: www.uvic.ca/socialsciences/politicalscience/people/directory/tremblayreeta

Guoguang Wu

Guoguang Wu

Guoguang Wu holds a Chair in China and Asia-Pacific Relations and began his career participating in political reform in China in the capacity of policy advisor and speechwriter. His research interests lie in the area of institutional change, political economy, globalization, elite politics, media and politics, and foreign policy and regional security, with empirical references to China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.

Email: wug@uvic.ca
Phone: 250-721-7497

Website: www.uvic.ca/socialsciences/politicalscience/people/directory/wuguoguang

Feng Xu

Feng Xu

Feng Xu works on China and her research has been making an important contribution to studies of modes of governance in post-socialist China, rural-urban migration and urbanization, political economy, social reproduction and capitalist economy in China, China’s regional economies, emerging Chinese labor market. She is also interested in exploring the nature of China’s role in Africa and Latin America.

Email: fengxu@uvic.ca
Phone: 250-472-4263

Website: www.uvic.ca/socialsciences/politicalscience/people/directory/xufeng

Yunhui Ye

Yunhui Ye

Yunhui is the Managing Editor of the Global South Political Commentaries Blog. She is a PhD student at the Department of Political Science, University of Victoria. Her research interests lie in the areas of migration, labor, and feminist political economy in the context of globalized China. 

Email: yunhuiye@uvic.ca