Description
South-South cooperation is becoming ever more important to states, policy-makers and academics. Many Northern states, international agencies and NGOs are promoting South-South partnerships as a means of ‘sharing the burden’ in funding and undertaking development, assistance and protection activities, often in response to increased political and financial pressures on their own aid budgets. However, the mainstreaming of Southern-led initiatives by UN agencies and Northern states is paradoxical in many ways, especially because the development of a South-South cooperation paradigm was originally conceptualised as a necessary way to overcome the exploitative nature of North-South relations in the era of decolonisation.
This handbook critically explores diverse ways of defining ‘the South’ and of conceptualising and engaging with ‘South-South relations.’ Through 30 state-of-the-art reviews of key academic and policy debates, the handbook evaluates past, present and future opportunities and challenges of South-South cooperation, and lays out research agendas for the next 5-10 years. The book covers key models of cooperation (including internationalism, Pan-Arabism and Pan-Africanism), diverse modes of South-South connection, exchange and support (including South-South aid, transnational activism, and migration), and responses to displacement, violence and conflict (including Southern-led humanitarianism, peace-building and conflict resolution). In so doing, the handbook reflects on decolonial, postcolonial and anticolonial theories and methodologies, exploring urgent questions regarding the nature and implications of conducting research in and about the global South, and of applying a ‘Southern lens’ to a wide range of encounters, processes and dynamics across the global South and global North alike.
This handbook will be of great interest to scholars and post-graduate students in anthropology, area studies, cultural studies, development studies, history, geography, international relations, politics, postcolonial studies and sociology.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Conceptualising the Global South and South-South Encounters
Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh and Patricia Daley
Part One: Conceptualising and Studying South-South Relations
2 Sociology through the ‘South’ Prism
Sujata Patel
3 Postcolonialism and South-South Relations
Dominic Davies and Elleke Boehmer
4 ‘When Spider Webs Unite They Can Tie up a Lion’: Anti-Racism, Decolonial Options and Theories from the South
Amber Murrey
5 Postcolonialism’s After-Life in the Arab World: Toward a Post-Authoritarian Approach
Sari Hanafi
6 South-South Relations in the Academic World: The Case of Anthropology
Gordon Mathews
7 Geographies of South-South Relations and Regionalisation Processes in Latin America-Caribbean
Thomas Muhr
8 Creating Indigenous Discourse: History, Power, and Imperialism in Academia, Palestinian Case
Janette Habashi
Part Two: South-South Cooperation: Histories, Principles and Practices
9 The Invention of the Global South and the Politics of South-South Solidarity
Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni and Kenneth Tafira
10 South-South Cooperation and Competition: A Critical History of the Principles and their Practice
Urvashi Aneja
11 Dreaming Revolution: Tricontinentalism, Anti-Imperialism and Third World Rebellion
Isaac Saney
12 The Rise and Fall of Pan-Arabism
Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou
13 Pan-Africanism: A History
Ama Biney
Part Three: South-South Cooperation: Re-viewing International Development
14 Southern leaders, Northern followers? Who has ‘Socialised’ Whom in International Development
Emma Mawdsley
15 South-South Approaches to International Environmental Negotiations: The Case of Climate Change
Eberhard Weber and Andreas Kopf
16 Climate Change and the Future of Agriculture in the Caribbean: Prospects for South-South Cooperation
Kevon Rhiney
17 South-South Relations in African Agriculture: Hybrid Modalities of Cooperation and Development Perspectives from Brazil and China
Lídia Cabral
Part Four: South-South Cooperation in Displacement, Security and Peace
18 Southern-led Responses to Displacement: Modes of South-South Cooperation?
Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh
19 China, "State-Centric" Humanitarianism, and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC): A Historical Background
Caroline Reeves
20 South-South Cooperation in International Organizations: Its Conceptualization and Implementation within UNDP and UNHCR
Naohiko Omata
21 Cooperation on Refugees in Latin America and the Caribbean: The ‘Cartagena Process’ and South-South Approaches
David Cantor
22 The "Need to Be There": North-South Encounters and Imaginations in the Humanitarian Economy
Estella Carpi
23 Security Cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean: Threats, Institutions & Challenges
Yonique Campbell
24 Towards South-South Peace-Building
Patricia Daley
Part Five: South-South Connections
25 Struggles for Gender Justice: Regional Networks and Feminist Experiences of South–South Collaborations
Sohela Nazneen
26 A Political Economy Analysis of South-South Youth Relations in Africa: Drivers and Future Research Questions
Grace M. Mwaura
27 South-South Education Relations
Thomas Muhr and Mário Luiz Neves de Azevedo
28 South-South Cooperation through Educational Mobility? The Example of China With/in Africa
Johanna L. Waters and Maggi W.H. Leung
29 South-South Migration and Diasporas
Abel Chikanda and Jonathan Crush
30 South-South Medical Tourism
Meghann Ormond and Heidi Kaspar
31 Art Connections: South-South Transnational Flow(s)
Miguel Rojas Sotelo
