Regions Refocus is building cross-regional, cross-movement solidarity in the struggle for progressive and feminist economic policy.

Lessons to Africa from Africa

Read our vital research collection recovering insights from revolutionary governments in early post-independence Africa to confront today’s development challenges.

Resistance Across Regions

Collating analysis of activists confronting the global authoritarian surge, this report compares right-wing regimes across contexts and the challenges of progressive and feminist movements, proposing strategies aimed at weaving together the threads of resistance.

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Reimagining Regionalism

African and Caribbean activist-intellectuals present and discuss progressive and feminist policy proposals around trade, climate, change, fiscal governance, agriculture, and debt, emerging from three regional workshops in Addis Ababa, Kampala, and St. Augustine.

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Regions Refocus Spring 2022 Update

Upcoming Gender and Trade Coalition two-part webinar series, examining the kind of trading paradigms currently being pursued in post-war contexts. Watch our PCT researchers share their work during our recent publication launch. See More

Cross-Regional 2022-04-13

Lessons to Africa from Africa | Post-Colonialisms Today Publication Launch

This panel shares rich archival research from Lessons to Africa from Africa, discussing issues such as industrialization, international solidarity, delinking from colonial currency, and more; and their relevance for today’s development challenges. See More

Africa, Arab States 2022-03-03

COVAX Protects the Vaccine Apartheid Status Quo

The COVID-19 Global Access (COVAX) initiative is touted as a program for vaccine equality. But many of COVAX’s donors and architects are enmeshed in the global intellectual property regime fueling vaccine apartheid. By Aishu Balaji (Regions Refocus). See More

Cross-Regional 2021-05-09

A history of resource plunder

Since colonization, Africa has been trapped in a pattern of providing raw materials for the global North; what can we learn from the early post-independence governments who attempted to break free from this dependence? By Tetteh-Hormeku Ajei (Third World Network- Africa; Post-Colonialisms Today Working Group) and Camden Goetz (Regions Refocus). See More

Africa 2021-04-29

Post-Cotonou Agreement: Cross-Regional Perspectives and Resistance

Africa, Caribbean, Cross-Regional, Pacific 2020-06-23

Why Post-Colonialisms Today? Introduction to the Project

Africa, Arab States 2020-06-22

Africa

Topics: Agriculture, Extractives, Regional Integration, Trade, Post-Colonialisms Today project

Arab States

Topics: Social Policy, Trade, Post-Colonialisms Today project

Asia

Topics: Caste, Finance, Sexuality, Regional Integration

Caribbean

Topics: Climate, Debt, Finance, Trade

Cross-Regional

Latin America

Topics: Education, Finance

Pacific

Topics: Climate, Trade

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This South-polar map projection highlights key areas of work that emerged from the priorities of our allies in each region, constituting 29 regional and cross-regional convenings since our founding in 2014.

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