Like Fish in a Stream? Considering the Agency of the UN Peacekeepers of the Global South: Rwanda and India as Case Studies

2018 ◽  
pp. 143-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Global South

Dilemmas of Gender and Global Sports Governance: An Invitation to Southern Theory

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 216-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn Henne ◽  
Madeleine Pape
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Global South ◽  
Track And Field ◽  
Illustrative Case ◽  
Pacific Island ◽  
Sports Policy ◽  
Sport For Development ◽  
Peace Initiatives ◽  
Sports Governance ◽  
Gender Specific

Most research on global sports policy either negates or underappreciate perspectives from the Global South. This article incorporates Southern Theory to examine how Northern worldviews profoundly shape gender-specific sports policy. It highlights two dilemmas that emerge, using illustrative case studies. First, it considers questions of gender and regulation, as evidenced in the gender verification regimes of track-and-field. Then, it addresses the limits of gender and empowerment in relation to sport for development and peace initiatives’ engagement with the diverse experiences and perspectives in non-Western contexts, considering them in relation to programming for women in Pacific Island countries. The article concludes with a reflection on possible contributions of Southern theory to sport sociological scholarship.

Interventions and the Limits of the Responsibility to Protect: Regional Organisations and the Global South

2017 ◽  
pp. 192-215
Author(s):  
Joseph Hongoh
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Global South ◽  
Potential Effect ◽  
Responsibility To Protect ◽  
Economic Empowerment ◽  
Regional Organizations ◽  
Regional Organisations ◽  
Alternative Reading

In Chapter Eight, Sovereignty versus Responsibility to Protect, Joseph Hongoh argues that the struggle in navigating the tension surrounding sovereignty as responsibility to protect actually obscures rather than enables productive engagements with the concept and practice of intervention. Referring to case studies from Africa, Hongoh suggests that integrating regional organizations (ROs) within the international-regional-national axes of R2P potentially restricts the broader conception of intervention. In undertaking this examination, he begins by providing an alternative reading of sovereignty as a responsibility. In this regard, he demonstrates how regional organizations in Africa have perennially engaged with the questions of sovereignty, responsibility, protection and human solidarity within the broader frames of political and economic empowerment and emancipation. In the last two sections of his chapter, Hongo shows how the broader conception of intervention has the potential effect of producing transnational sovereignty, and in ways that are not imagined within R2P. The result, he suggests, may lead to implementation of R2P within the conditions of sovereignty that are determined by ROs.

scholarly journals Waste Picker Organizations and Their Contribution to the Circular Economy: Two Case Studies from a Global South Perspective

Resources ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jutta Gutberlet ◽  
Sebastián Carenzo ◽  
Jaan-Henrik Kain ◽  
Adalberto Mantovani Martiniano de Azevedo
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Global South

Land Reform in the Era of Neoliberalism: Case Studies From the Global South

2008 ◽  
Vol 98 (3) ◽  
pp. iii-vi ◽  
Author(s):  
Brent Mccusker ◽  
Alistair Fraser
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Land Reform ◽  
Global South

Review of Frederick Gaiser’s book, Healing in the Bible

2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-40
Author(s):  
Clifton Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Global South ◽  
Biblical Worldview ◽  
Bible Colleges ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Biblical Scholarship ◽  
Global North ◽  
Healing Narratives ◽  
The Demonic

Frederick Gaiser’s book Healing in the Bible is very instructive when read from an ‘ordinary reader’ perspective. The reviewer especially commends Gaiser on his ‘hermeneutic of appreciation’ and his maintaining of biblical scholarship without succumbing to western enlightenment presuppositions and thereby undermining the biblical worldview. The reviewer also welcomes the post-modern structure of the book which relies on healing narratives and case studies. However, the need for a more in-depth discussion of the author’s theological methods and the lack of a unifying thesis are possible weaknesses. The reviewer explores the various themes in the book through an African indigenous and Pentecostal lens. The reviewer specifically addresses beliefs regarding healing, sickness, exorcism and the demonic, healing and curing, and healing and symbolism. Ultimately, this book is highly recommended not only for seminaries, Bible colleges, and churches in the Global North, but especially those in the Global South.

scholarly journals Ten Years of the Global Labour Journal: Reflecting on the Rise of the New Global Labour Studies

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Webster ◽  
Robert O'Brien
Keyword(s):  
International Trade ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Early Phase ◽  
Global South ◽  
Labour Movement ◽  
Precarious Work ◽  
The Past ◽  
Trade Unionism

The article examines the origins of the Global Labour Journal (GLJ) and its goal of broadening labour studies. It shows how, over the past decade, the GLJ has recorded and analysed the forms of action and organisation that fall outside the traditional focus of labour studies. Through a range of careful case studies, the Journal has made an important contribution to the growing field of global labour studies. The two topics that have been the focus of most attention across all types of submissions have been: 1) precarious work and new forms of labour struggles; and 2) international trade unionism or transnational/global labour. The Journal has been successful in giving a platform to content from the Global South, but it is uneven and limited. Another major limitation is the failure to bridge the divide between the big questions raised in the Marx/Polanyi debates during the early phase of the Journal with the more concrete accounts of labour rediscovering its power on the periphery of labour movement.  The article concludes by pointing towards possible options facing labour and the choices facing the GLJ. KEY WORDS: Global labour; global labour studies; precarious work; future of labour

scholarly journals Urban Stream and Wetland Restoration in the Global South—A DPSIR Analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (18) ◽  
pp. 4975 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl Wantzen ◽  
Carlos Alves ◽  
Sidia Badiane ◽  
Raita Bala ◽  
Martín Blettler ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Aquatic Ecosystems ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Global South ◽  
Urban Stream ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Urban Stream Syndrome ◽  
Acceptance And Commitment ◽  
The Social

In many countries of the Global South, aquatic ecosystems such as streams, rivers, lakes, and wetlands are severely impacted by several simultaneous environmental stressors, associated with accelerated urban development, and extreme climate. However, this problem receives little attention. Applying a DPSIR approach (Drivers, Pressures, State, Impacts, Responses), we analyzed the environmental impacts and their effects on urban hydrosystems (including stagnant waters), and suggest possible solutions from a series of case studies worldwide. We find that rivers in the Global South, with their distinctive geographical and socio-political setting, display significant differences from the Urban Stream Syndrome described so far in temperate zones. We introduce the term of ‘Southern Urban Hydrosystem Syndrome’ for the biophysical problems as well as the social interactions, including the perception of water bodies by the urbanites, the interactions of actors (e.g., top-down, bottom-up), and the motivations that drive urban hydrosystem restoration projects of the Global South. Supported by a synthesis of case studies (with a focus on Brazilian restoration projects), this paper summarizes the state of the art, highlights the currently existing lacunae for research, and delivers examples of practical solutions that may inform UNESCO’s North–South–South dialogue to solve these urgent problems. Two elements appear to be specifically important for the success of restoration projects in the Global South, namely the broad acceptance and commitment of local populations beyond merely ‘ecological’ justifications, e.g., healthy living environments and ecosystems with cultural linkages (‘River Culture’). To make it possible implementable/practical solutions must be extended to (often poor) people having settled along river banks and wetlands.

Negotiating power from the margins: Encountering everyday experiences and contestations to REDD + in Southern Tanzania

2021 ◽  
pp. 251484862110528
Author(s):  
Danstan Mukono ◽  
Richard Faustine Sambaiga ◽  
Lyla Mehta
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Forest Degradation ◽  
Global South ◽  
Development Model ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Conservation Policies ◽  
Power And Resistance ◽  
Everyday Experiences ◽  
Context Specific

This paper provides an account of everyday discursive and material practises deployed by marginalised forest-dependent groups in the course of resisting the implementation of Reduced Emission from Deforestation and forest degradation (REDD + ) and conservation regulations. Available literature have documented extensively that REDD + market-based models across the Global South, and Tanzania in particular, have led to increasing inequality, injustices, and exclusions. Nevertheless, there is little attention to exploring how different social actors that are unequally positioned resist exclusions. The paper explores selected case studies of marginalised forest-dependent groups in Lindi, Southern Tanzania, who creatively work to negotiate unequal power relations through a range of encounters around REDD+. Our analysis shows unequal social, spatial, and environmental ramifications of market-based conservation policies and strategies that have led to different kinds of material and discursive resistance to challenge exclusions. In doing so, it provides critical context-specific realities from the Global South and, specifically, Tanzanian scholarship to focus on both the dynamics of power and resistance in socially differentiated forest-dependent groups affected by envisioned market-based and development model-led conservation regimes.

scholarly journals Geographies of waste: Conceptual vectors from the Global South

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (6) ◽  
pp. 1044-1063 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nate Millington ◽  
Mary Lawhon
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Global South ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Relational Understanding ◽  
Neoliberal Governance ◽  
Global North ◽  
North And South

Geographies of waste, which include examination of its flows and politics, have demonstrated empirical differences and contrasting approaches to researching waste in the Global North and South. Southern waste geographies have largely focused on case studies of informality and (neoliberal) governance. We draw on Southern theory to argue that this focus can be productively extended through greater consideration of the production of value and the role of materiality and technology in the wastescape. We argue that a relational understanding of multiscalar wastescapes contributes insights into the distribution of costs and benefits as well as what enables and constrains the extraction of value for different actors.

scholarly journals Before 1962: The Case for 1950s China-India History

2017 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 697-727 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arunabh Ghosh
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Global South ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Political Life ◽  
International History ◽  
China And India ◽  
Cooperation And Competition ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Different Sources

China-India history of the 1950s remains mired in concerns related to border demarcations and a teleological focus on the causes, course, and consequences of the war of 1962. The result is an overt emphasis on diplomatic and international history of a rather narrow form. In critiquing this narrowness, this article offers an alternate chronology accompanied by two substantive case studies. Taken together, they demonstrate that an approach that takes seriously cultural, scientific, and economic life leads to different sources and different historical arguments than an approach focused on political (and especially high political) life. Such a shift in emphasis, away from conflict and onto moments of contact, comparison, cooperation, and competition, can contribute fresh perspectives not just on the histories of China and India, but also on the histories of the Global South.

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