The Global South Research Group brings together scholars engaged in research on international political and economic trends, non-European perspectives, and south-south comparisons.
The group is immensely diverse in terms of geographical focus and disciplinary expertise. It includes economists, theorists, historical institutionalists, political sociologists and quantitative political scientists.
Our upcoming seminar series, Race and Racism in the Global South, runs from May to June 2021. You can find out more and sign-up here.
Research Areas
- Revolutions and political movements
- Markets, culture and transnational governance
- Education policy
- Peace, conflict and tolerance
- Racism
- Religious mobilizations
- Justice
- Inequality
- Institutions and aid
- Political Ideology and identity
Projects
2019-2023: Bringing in the Other Islamists - comparing Arab Shia and Sunni Islamism(s) in a sectarianized Middle East (Independent Research Fund Denmark £600k - Jeroen Gunning with Morten Valbjørn, Aarhus University)
GlobalBiopolitics Research Centre https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/global-biopolitics-research-centre
2019-2021: GI-ACE project on Centralised versus decentralised monitoring to reduce corruption: Insights from comparisons across Indian states (GI ACE - Amrita Dhillon)
2021-2022: Religion, self-governance and the state: assisted reproductive technologies in the Muslim Middle East (Wellcome Trust and DPE ARF 2021 - Mansooreh Saniei and Brian Salter)
2020-2022 Red Islam: Socialist Internationalism and Islam in South Asia, 1920-1978 (Leverhulme Trust- Humeira Iqtidar and Dr Layly Uddin)
2019-22 ‘Analysing the transnational provisioning of services in the social sector: the case of commercialisation of NHS services in China and India’ (ESRC £900K – Brian Salter with Prof Susan Fairley-Murray)
2019-20 ‘Reproductive Empires: Charting the political economy of ART in the Global South’ (King’s Together Programme £20K – Brian Salter with Prof Bronwyn Parry)
2019-20 ‘The New World of Medically Assisted Reproduction and Ethical Governance in the Muslim Middle East: Establishing a Robust Network (Wellcome Trust £30K – Brian Salter with Dr Mansooreh Saniei)
2019-2020 Justice in Non-Liberal Polities (King’s Together, Humeira Iqtidar with Charis Boutieri, EIS)
2012-2016 Tolerance in Muslim Politics: Political Theory Beyond the ‘West’ (ERC Starter Grant, Humeira Iqtidar)
Projects
2019-2023: Bringing in the Other Islamists - comparing Arab Shia and Sunni Islamism(s) in a sectarianized Middle East (Independent Research Fund Denmark £600k - Jeroen Gunning with Morten Valbjørn, Aarhus University)
GlobalBiopolitics Research Centre https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/global-biopolitics-research-centre
2019-2021: GI-ACE project on Centralised versus decentralised monitoring to reduce corruption: Insights from comparisons across Indian states (GI ACE - Amrita Dhillon)
2021-2022: Religion, self-governance and the state: assisted reproductive technologies in the Muslim Middle East (Wellcome Trust and DPE ARF 2021 - Mansooreh Saniei and Brian Salter)
2020-2022 Red Islam: Socialist Internationalism and Islam in South Asia, 1920-1978 (Leverhulme Trust- Humeira Iqtidar and Dr Layly Uddin)
2019-22 ‘Analysing the transnational provisioning of services in the social sector: the case of commercialisation of NHS services in China and India’ (ESRC £900K – Brian Salter with Prof Susan Fairley-Murray)
2019-20 ‘Reproductive Empires: Charting the political economy of ART in the Global South’ (King’s Together Programme £20K – Brian Salter with Prof Bronwyn Parry)
2019-20 ‘The New World of Medically Assisted Reproduction and Ethical Governance in the Muslim Middle East: Establishing a Robust Network (Wellcome Trust £30K – Brian Salter with Dr Mansooreh Saniei)
2019-2020 Justice in Non-Liberal Polities (King’s Together, Humeira Iqtidar with Charis Boutieri, EIS)
2012-2016 Tolerance in Muslim Politics: Political Theory Beyond the ‘West’ (ERC Starter Grant, Humeira Iqtidar)