
Meera Venkatachalam
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South-South relations; Afro-Asia; India in Africa; Africans in India; Vodun/ Voodoo. Cat person. Retweets โ endorsements.
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27-12-2021 12:04:09
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China's top diplomat for Africa, Du Xiaohui, was very blunt this week in his assessment of China's foreign policy for the continent compared to that of "some other country." via CHINA MFA Spokesperson ไธญๅฝๅคไบค้จๅ่จไบบ: tinyurl.com/27h98upf







Wrote a piece for LPE Blog "We may remember Trump 2.0 as the great accelerator of 21st Century state capitalism, a historically specific form of capitalism where the fusion of private and state capital reaches new heights" lpeproject.org/blog/state-capโฆ Politics and International Studies Cambridge Cambridge Centre of Development Studies

As global powers debate alternatives to the dollar, Nigerian traders, Chinese exporters, and everyday crypto users are already reshaping the rules of currency exchange, as the hosts of the Nigerian Scam find out in the latest episode of the AIAC podcast. africasacountry.com/2025/06/de-dolโฆ

It's publication day for "Southern Interregnum" today - a comparative conjunctural analysis of hegemonic projects across four emerging powers in the global South. This labour of love has been underway since 2017, and it's SO GREAT to finally see it out! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179791/

๐ซ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐? โก๏ธ๐จ๐๐๐ Join this hybrid workshop on 3 July IIAS which explores the aspirations, trajectories & infrastructures in #migration towards #Asia. With Meera Venkatachalam Department for Migration and Globalisation IOM Europe and Central Asia Association for Asian Studies ICAS ๐บ iias.asia/events/asian-mโฆ


This one took time - and a bit more time to actually post - but hereโs my article in thirdworldq (May 2025): "Ideology & the Question of Agency in Africaโs IR: The Case of Ghana" Open Access copy here:๐ doi.org/10.1080/014365โฆ #Ghana #AfricanAgency #ForeignPolicy








