Global South

Microfinance’s Imagined Utopia

Two new books critique poverty capital, but they don’t ask what borrowers need.

  • Kevin P. Donovan

Improvising Urban Futures

The vast hinterlands of the Global South’s cities are generating new solidarities and ideas of what counts as a life worth living.

  • AbdouMaliq Simone

How to Fight Digital Colonialism

As Big Tech’s data and profit extraction extends the world over, activists in the Global South are pointing the way to a more just digital future.

  • Toussaint Nothias

The Proto-Fascist Guide to Destroying the World

Noam Chomsky on lies, crimes, and savage capitalism.

  • Noam Chomsky
  • David Barsamian

Far from Ukraine, Putin’s War Worsens Palm Oil Crisis

The commodity’s bloody history is instructive of how global capitalism can and can’t be fixed.

  • Max Haiven

International Labor Solidarity in a Time of Pandemic

A new geoeconomic order is creating opportunities for organizing along supply chains.

  • Manoj Dias-Abey

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The War on Brazilian Democracy

Since taking office in January, President Jair Bolsonaro has not only become less popular. He has also done perhaps irreparable damage to fundamental democratic institutions.

  • Gianpaolo Baiocchi
  • Marcelo K. Silva

Masters and Servants

Neel Mukherjee is part of a new generation of Indian writers dissecting postcolonialism’s failed promise of a classless society.

  • Gaiutra Bahadur

Immigrants Welcome*

Trump’s Muslim ban was not just an aberration. U.S. citizenship has long been predicated on whiteness as it was understood in 1790.

  • Maytha Alhassen

Who Gets the Right to Stay?

The moral right of states to apprehend and deport irregular migrants erodes with the passage of time.

  • Joseph H. Carens

Toward a Trans* Feminism

Feminism and trans* activism have been at odds for decades. They don’t need to be.

  • Jack Halberstam

Growing Up Under Mugabe

On the enduring legacy of a dictatorial ruler.

  • Naseemah Mohamed

Waving at Trains

Nalo Hopkinson on the politics of dystopia, writing from the Global South, and the enduring importance of black mermaids.

  • Nalo Hopkinson

No Eulogy for the Living

An open letter to the Philippines.

  • Miguel Syjuco

Writing While Socialist

Vijay Prashad on writing, struggle, and hope in difficult times.

  • Vijay Prashad
  • Mark Nowak

The Global Calculus of Climate Disaster

Global capitalism is no longer simply characterized by uneven development, it is characterized by uneven disaster.

  • Ashley Dawson

Ants Among Elephants

Sujatha Gidla, born an untouchable in India, tells the story of her family.

  • Sujatha Gidla

The Goddess of Loss

On Indian literature in English after Arundhati Roy.

  • Ulka Anjaria

Introduction to Reading Other Women

Literature can be a primary engine of dialogue and empathy, but it—or rather, the reading public—is often complicit in the silencing of global women of color.

  • Rafia Zakaria

Kashmir’s High Price for Demanding Independence

In the name of fighting radical Islam, Indian troops have gone to war with civilians.

  • Tariq Mir
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