by Reeta Tremblay | Sep 20, 2023 | Posts
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...
by fengxu | May 10, 2023 | Announcement
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...
by Reeta Tremblay | Mar 11, 2022 | Announcement
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...
by Reeta Tremblay | May 23, 2021 | Posts
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...
by Smith Oduro-Marfo | Jul 1, 2020 | Posts
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...
by Smith Oduro-Marfo | Jul 1, 2020 | Posts
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...
by Smith Oduro-Marfo | May 4, 2020 | Posts
(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...
by Smith Oduro-Marfo | May 2, 2020 | Posts
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...
by Smith Oduro-Marfo | Nov 1, 2019 | Posts
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...
by Smith Oduro-Marfo | Sep 3, 2019 | Posts
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...
by Reeta Tremblay | Aug 16, 2019 | Posts
The Hindu Nationalist government of Narendra Modi, with unexpected suddenness, has abolished the special constitutional status of the Muslim-majority state of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K). On Aug. 8, Prime Minister Modi, in a speech to the nation, described the new...
by Smith Oduro-Marfo | Apr 17, 2019 | Posts
In August 2018, of the 1,500 refugee spaces provided by the Canadian government for the Blended Visa Office-Referred (BVOR) Program more than 1,000 were left unclaimed. Only due to the exceptional financial commitment of some philanthropic leaders did Canada move any...
by Smith Oduro-Marfo | Feb 28, 2019 | Posts
What is ‘development’? Development for whom, and for what purpose? Who really benefits from development, and at what cost to others? The topic of development as an aspiration, an ideology, and an academic field of study became particularly significant in the...
by Smith Oduro-Marfo | Oct 23, 2018 | Posts
South Africa seems set to amend its Constitution to allow land expropriation without compensation. On 27 February 2018, the governing African National Congress (ANC) supported a measure proposed by a small, ‘left-wing’ opposition party, the Economic Freedom Fighters...
by Smith Oduro-Marfo | Aug 8, 2018 | Posts
By Marlea Clarke This Blog is called ‘Global South Political Commentaries’, leading, perhaps, to the questions: where and what is the global South, when did this term emerge, who uses the term and why? The answers are not quite...
