By Hannah Elliott, Mwathi Kitonga, Fred Kung’u and Elvin Nyukuri Seaports are bustling gateways for trade and the growing blue economy, handling around 80 per cent of world trade. In the Global South, ports are viewed as key drivers of economic development, reflected, for example, in the massive increase in port infrastructure investment in Africa ..read more

By Rachel Alexander Do compliance audits incentivise factories to conceal problematic practices? Could a focus on identifying risks encourage brands to collaborate more closely with their factories, fostering collaborative upgrading processes ..read more

By Felix Maile and Cornelia Staritz  There has been much talk about the reconfiguration of global supply chains in recent years. Intensified geopolitical tensions, the climate crisis, digitalization ..read more

By Alexander Maxelon, Nauja Kleist and Lisa Ann Richey.   Humanitarianism is undergoing a profound transformation, with an array of diverse actors entering the humanitarian arena. These shifts raise critical questions about the efficacy of humanitarian responses and the evolving needs of those who rely on them ..read more

By Yvette Ruzibiza and Simon Turner  Tanzania used to be commended internationally for its generous refugee policy, since the 1960s hosting forcibly displaced people from war-torn neighboring countries including Burundi and Rwanda, and actively supporting anti-apartheid freedom fighters from southern Africa ..read more

Climate change is a pressing global issue that requires immediate action. As countries and multinational companies invest in green energy, it's easy to assume that we're making ethical choices. However, this is not always the case. green initiatives perpetuate a new form of colonialism, effectively making them green colonialism. Our recent study - Green Colonialism and Decolonial Feminism: A Study of Wayúu Women’s Resistance in La Guajira [https://doi.org/10.1177/00187267231189610], uncovers how the rush to renewable energy is affecting Indigenous communities, specifically the Wayúu women in L ..read more

By Lotte Thomsen, Karen P.Y Lai and Stefano Ponte Entanglements of value and wealth are essential features of contemporary global capitalism. Still, value and wealth have until now mainly been studied in isolation from each other. For our understanding of how value and wealth entangle, gold is a case in point. The Singaporean state has ..read more

By Shyamain Wickramasingha The alleged human rights abuses in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China led to US sanctions and then the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act. The US Congress passed this Act in December 2021, and it came into effect in June 2022. However, already in 2021 the US Customs and Border Protection ..read more

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