India and the Challenge of the Global South

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-32
Author(s):  
Vinay Lal
Keyword(s):  
Global South ◽  
Knowledge Systems ◽  
Popular Cinema ◽  
The Third ◽  
South Asian History ◽  
The Poor ◽  
South And Southeast Asia ◽  
Modern Knowledge ◽  
Asian History ◽  
The Third World

The idea of the ‘Global South’ arose from the conference of African and Asian nations at Bandung in 1955 even if the term has only recently entered academic parlance. To many it evokes what used to be called the Third World, just as it calls to mind anti-colonial struggles of the 1950s to the 1970s. However, the question is whether the idea of ‘Global South’ can be recuperated to furnish a more ecologically pluralistic framework of knowledge that would also accommodate more radical conceptions of dissent leading to social justice for the poor and the disenfranchised. After probing the prevalent ideas of ‘South Asia’ and the scholarship on South Asian history and religion, this chapter asks what the notion of Indic civilization brings to the idea of the Global South. It explores briefly the emancipatory potential of Indian epics and popular cinema, commenting besides on the varieties of Islam from South and Southeast Asia, before concluding with a lengthier exploration of the Indian idea of hospitality and how it can be channelled to contest the categories of modern knowledge systems.

AI and the Global South

2020 ◽  
pp. 587-606
Author(s):  
Chinmayi Arun
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Third World ◽  
Global South ◽  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
The Third ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The Third World ◽  
Postcolonial History

This chapter details how AI affects, and will continue to affect, the Global South. The term “South” has a history connected with the “Third World” and has referred to countries that share postcolonial history and certain development goals. However, scholars have expanded and refined on it to include different kinds of marginal, disenfranchised populations such that the South is now a plural concept—there are Souths. The AI-related risks for Southern populations include concerns of discrimination, bias, oppression, exclusion, and bad design. These can be exacerbated in the context of vulnerable populations, especially those without access to human rights law or institutional remedies. The chapter then outlines these risks as well as the international human rights law that is applicable. It argues that a human rights–centric, inclusive, empowering context-driven approach is necessary.

Environmental characteristics and organizational ideology: UNCTAD—the lessons of 1964

1978 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-160
Author(s):  
Javed A. Ansari
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Commodity Prices ◽  
Trade Policies ◽  
Poor Countries ◽  
Negotiated Settlement ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The Third World ◽  
Rich Countries

THE United Nations Conference on Trade and Development came nto existence in 1964. Its creation was viewed with a degree of cautious enthusiasm by the Third World and with a certain amount of apprehension by the rich countries. Its performance has dampened the enthusiasm and heightened the apprehension. Its contribution to substantive changes in trade policies has not been spectacular. Whatever improvement in commodity prices and hence in the terms of trade of the poor countries that occurred in the early 1970s was attributable to fortuitous circumstances – not to a negotiated settlement between the rich and poor countries, enabling the latter to retain a larger portion of the gains from trade. Can we3 therefore3 say that UNGTAD has been ineffective? That it has failed to perform its global task? And if so, what is the cause of this failure? Is the organizational ideology unsuitable in the sense that it is not representative of the national objectives of viable coalitions among UNGTAD constituents? Or has the leadership failed to evolve a strategy which links the pursuit of specific sub-goals to the transformation of the system in accordance with the organizational ideology? This present paper attempts to look at the first question and to venture an opinion on the effectiveness of UNGTAD in the light of these findings.

World setting: paradoxical constraints on engineering

1986 ◽  
Vol 316 (1537) ◽  
pp. 211-216 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Food Production ◽  
Third World ◽  
Developing Nations ◽  
Technical Training ◽  
Scientific Training ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Third World ◽  
Developed Nations

Hundreds of millions of people are suffering from m alnutrition and starvation in the Third World, the largest of our worlds. Tens of millions die each year from these causes. Population grow this exponential; growth of food production, at best, is in arithmetic progression, and the gap is rapidly widening. W e need more than scientific training if such immense problem s are to be solved. In fact, our scientific and technical training may have left us with some flawed tools. Droughts are implicit in m any of our volatile climates; persistent droughts are also a characteristic of nature and famine is their consequence. W e need to be able to show and to feel that food is worth growing. Aid by the developed nations to the developing nations will not work in the long term without considerable changes in the cultures and technical skills of the poor.

scholarly journals Between the Cold War and the Global South: Argentina and Third World Solidarity in the Falklands/Malvinas Crisis

2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (60) ◽  
pp. 141-160
Author(s):  
Stella Paresa Krepp
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Third World ◽  
European Economic Community ◽  
The United States ◽  
Global South ◽  
Economic Community ◽  
The Third ◽  
American States ◽  
The Third World ◽  
The Cold War

Abstract This article looks at Argentine attempts to mobilize the Third World support by framing the Falklands/Malvinas War as a North-South conflict. Despite fundamental ideological divisions, the Organization of American States (OAS) and the Non-Aligned Movement offered support to Argentina, while the NATO powers - the European Economic Community (EEC) and the United States − backed Great Britain. The Falklands/Malvinas was thus a conflict where nationalist agendas linked up with global narratives of decolonization and the Global South.

Obstacles to Change in the Church: Lessons from Four Brazilian Dioceses

1973 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 395-414
Author(s):  
Thomas C. Bruneau
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Third World ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The One ◽  
The Third World ◽  
The Church

A review of the popular and even scholarly literature dealing with the Catholic Church in Latin America during the last decade will leave the reader confused. The books, articles, and media coverage in comparison with each other are ambiguous and at times contradictory. If on the one hand the Church is described as the fastest-changing institution on the continent, there is on the other hand ample proof put forth that the institution is stagnant and in many cases apparently bankrupt. While some students point to the emergence of militant clergy groups such as the Golconda movement in Colombia or Priests of the Third World in Argentina, others as easily argue that these movements are beyond the institution and without significance in the larger society. And for every time the Church is shown siding with the poor and oppressed, two instances are held up in which words are not followed by action.

Do Cities ‘Modernize’ the Developing Countries? An Examination of the South Asian Experience

1974 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 266-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. A. Qadeer
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Third World ◽  
Poor Countries ◽  
Industrial City ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Third World ◽  
The City

The City is a civilizing influence. This is one of the enduring themes of western thought. The crowding, filth, and exploitation of the industrial city in nineteenth-century Europe could not dampen the enthusiasm of urbanists such as Weber, Ruskin, or Spengler; nor is there any dearth of eulogizers of today‘s sprawling megalopolis. This mode of thought has also found its way into the poor countries of the third world, where the overwhelming majority lives in isolated villages. The current message for them is to seek urbanization if they want to be prosperous. This is the essence of a now familiar proposition that cities are necessary for economic development.

Strategies to Influence Nutrition Behaviour

1990 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 189-204
Author(s):  
Maisie C. Steven
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Basic Understanding ◽  
The Developed Countries ◽  
The Third World ◽  
Made In ◽  
Nutrition Behaviour

An attempt is made in this paper to consider first the current nutritional scene with its problems, and then to suggest strategies for improvement. Since the quality of people’s diets everywhere is influenced by many different factors, not least by availability of food, a bility to pay for it, and some (however basic) understanding of its effects upon health, a strong plea is made for consideration to be given to those most in need of nutritional help—the least advantaged and least motivated groups in the developed countries, as well as the poor in the Third World. Some strategies aimed at improving nutrition behaviour are outlined.

DRUGS AND THE THIRD WORLD

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-169
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Pharmaceutical Companies ◽  
The West ◽  
The Third ◽  
Poor Family ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Effective Delivery ◽  
Great Health ◽  
The Third World

Addressing herself again to the vulnerability of the Third World to exploitation, Dianna Melrose has produced on behalf of OXFAM a book [Bitter Pills: Medicines and the Third World Poor] which, like her earlier works [The Great Health Robbery and Medicines and the Poor in Bangladesh], is likely to provoke a brisk reaction from the pharmaceutical companies she attacks so vigorously... . She documents some examples of marketing techniques for the promotion of useless and even suspect products—practices that may hinder the effective delivery of appropriate drugs. A Brazilian senator and doctor decided to test just how much sales activity was directed at doctors: "For 21 working days he kept track of salesmen's visits to his clinic. He was visited on 18 of the 21 days by a total of 69 salesmen. He was given 452 free samples of drugs (after refusing extra quantities so as not to distort the counting); he received 25 gifts including coffee pots, notebooks, etc." One of the book's chief aims is to repeat that the cure for malnutrition is food and not vitamin pills. Three-quarters of the drugs manufactured by Glaxo and Fisons in Bangladesh are for nonessential multivitamins and tonics. When a doctor prescribes these products for a poor family, money is spent which would be better spent on food. Many of the companies' products are not licensed for sale in the West, where Government controls protect both the medical profession and the patient from the more obvious distortions of promotion... .

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