The term 'Global South' marks a new attempt at providing order and meaning in the current global political constellation, replacing the term 'Third World'. But the term 'Global South' is fraught with many ambiguities.
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These eight essays explore the possible meanings of this new distinction and assess the advantages and disadvantages of adopting it. They cast a wide exploratory net, looking beyond the dominant politico-economic meaning to how the way that we interpret the world has changed over time and the wider cultural–intellectual meanings.
Key Features
Asks whether 'Global South' and 'Global North' are useful for understanding the current global constellation
Analyses the recent global transformation that allegedly made the 'Third World' disappear and the 'Global South' emerge
Explores how space is used for different but overlapping purposes: to build socio-political concepts, to criticise recent trends in global developments and to develop a normative angle for collective political action
Draws on global history, conceptual history, comparative literature, social and political theory, political philosophy and social history to develop a full, interdisciplinary picture of the uses of 'South' and 'North'
Contributors
Jacob Dlamini, Princeton University, USA
À. Lorena Fuster, University of Barcelona, Spain
Nathalie Karagiannis, University of Barcelona, Spain
Maxim Khomyakov, Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia
Aurea Mota, University of Barcelona, Spain
Cláudio Costa Pinheiro, Rio de Janeiro Federal University, Brazil
Gerard Rosich, independent researcher
Peter Wagner, Catalan Institute for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA) and University of Barcelona, Spain
Peter Wagner is Catalan Institute for Research and Advanced Studies Research Professor at the University of Barcelona. His publications include The Trouble with Democracy (Edinburgh University Press, 2016), African, American and European Trajectories of Modernity (Edinburgh University Press, 2015), Modernity as Experience and Interpretation (Polity Press, 2008), A History and Theory of the Social Sciences (Sage, 2001), Theorising Modernity (Sage, 2001) and A Sociology of Modernity (Routledge, 1994).
