''Third World Quarterly'' is a

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managed by Global South Ltd and published by

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. Its "founding editor" and chair of its editorial board is Shahid Qadir, who is also one of two directors of Global South Ltd. Although the journal's title suggests only four issues per year, it is in fact published monthly. The journal had an

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of 2.225 in 2021.

Controversy

In September 2017, the journal attracted controversy after it published an article entitled "The Case for

Colonialism Colonialism is the control of another territory, natural resources and people by a foreign group. Colonizers control the political and tribal power of the colonised territory. While frequently an Imperialism, imperialist project, colonialism c ...

" by political scientist Bruce Gilley. This article was described by Portia Roelofs and Max Gallien of the

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as "a travesty, the academic equivalent of a Trump tweet, clickbait with footnotes."

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theologian Nigel Biggar himself became the subject of controversy after defending Gilley's article. On 19 September 2017, a large number of the journal's

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resigned in protest, citing a flawed peer review process for the colonialism submission and inaccurate statements from the editor-in-chief, Shahid Qadir. In all, 15 of the 34 members of the international editorial board were signatories to the resignation letter, and a petition to retract the piece at Change.org had more than 10,000 supporters. Board member

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opposed the retraction, saying: "Rebuttal offers a great opportunity for education, not only in this case."

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