Politics in the Global South plays a crucial role in shaping the global political landscape. The region’s vast population, rich natural resources, and diverse cultures make it a key player in international trade, environmental sustainability, and global governance. The political dynamics of the Global South often reflect ongoing struggles for democracy, human rights, and social justice, influencing global movements and policy debates. Additionally, as these nations develop and assert their influence, they challenge traditional power structures, promoting a more multipolar world order and reshaping global economic and political relations.
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Dr Nauman Reayat
NAUMAN IS THE COORDINATOR OF THIS GROUP.
He is the Convener/Founder, GSN and Convener, Constitutionalism in Developing Democracies, Socio-Legal Studies Association.
For inquiries on this group activities, Nauman can be reached at leicgsn@gmail.com or contact page of this website.
Dr Vikram Visana
Dr Vikram Visana is a lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Leicester in 2022. Before arriving at Leicester, he taught at the Universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh, and Huddersfield, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Global History, Freie Universität Berlin.
Vikram’s research focuses on Indian political thought from the nineteenth century to the present. His book, Uncivil Liberalism: Labour, Capital and Commercial Society in Dadabhai Naoroji’s Political Thought (2022), is a reinterpretation of Dadabhai Naoroji’s Indian contribution to ideas on global labour rights and liberal-republican critiques of capitalist monopoly.
AMIT SINGH
Amit is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal. He holds a PhD in human rights from the same university. His research interests include right-wing politics in India, religious populism and emotion, Hindu nationalism, secularism, human rights, and religious minorities. His most recent article is Secularism in the Troubled ‘Waters’ of ‘Hindu Nationalism’: A Case Study of the Conflict between Freedom of Expression and Religion in India (Secular Studies, 2024). His latest book is, ‘An Approach to Hindudta in India’ (Bharti Publication, 2024).
Amit is a Sylff fellow at the Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research, Japan, holder of a Slovakian national scholarship, and a research associate at the Centre for the Study at the Indian Languages Society in India. He regularly writes opinion articles and appears in public debates.
DR SHALINI SHARMA
Shalini Sharma studied at Cambridge, JNU and SOAS. She is Senior Lecturer in South Asian history at Keele University. She is the author of Radical Politics in Colonial Punjab: Governance and Sedition (2009), and is currently working on a book about America and Indian cultural and intellectual life after 1947.
Dr Moohyung Cho
Dr Moohyung is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Ewha Womans University, South Korea. His research interests include comparative political institutions, judicial politics, autocracy and democracy, and political economy of institutions. Moohyung received his Ph.D. in Political Science at Duke University in 2020 and worked as a visiting researcher at the Humboldt University of Berlin and Seoul National University.
Chidinma
Mbaegu
PhD Candidate School of Politics and International Relations, University of Leicester.
Roman Gnaegi
Roman Gnaegi is a development/humanitarian professional and research student in the Doctor of Social Science (DSocSci) programme at University of Leicester. Over the last fifteen years he has worked as a staffer, consultant and advisor for non-governmental organizations in Burkina Faso, Uganda, Tanzania, Cambodia, Nepal, Chile, Argentina and his home country Switzerland. He currently lives in La Paz, Bolivia. Roman’s academic background is in Social Anthropology, Peace and Development Studies and Global Health. His research focusses on the peacebuilding contributions of health workers and other non-professional peacebuilders.
GLOBAL SOUTH NETWORK (GSN) 