scholarly journals In, Against and Beyond Precarity: Work in Insecure Times

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 447-457 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriella Alberti ◽  
Ioulia Bessa ◽  
Kate Hardy ◽  
Vera Trappmann ◽  
Charles Umney
Keyword(s):  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Analytical Tool ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Organizational Contexts ◽  
The World ◽  
Global North ◽  
Key Drivers ◽  
Political Effectiveness ◽  
North And South ◽  
Work And Employment

In this Foreword to the special issue ‘In, Against and Beyond Precarity’ the guest editors take stock of the existing literature on precarity, highlighting the strengths and limitations of using this concept as an analytical tool for examining the world of work. Concluding that the overstretched nature of concept has diluted its political effectiveness, the editors suggest instead a focus on precarization as a process, drawing from perspectives that focus on the objective conditions, as well as subjective and heterogeneous experiences and perceptions of insecure employment. Framed in this way, they present a summary of the contributions to the special issue spanning a range of countries and organizational contexts, identifying key drivers, patterns and forms of precarization. These are conceptualized as implicit, explicit, productive and citizenship precarization. These forms and patterns indicate the need to address precariousness in the realm of social reproduction and post-wage politics, while holding these in tension with conflicts at the point of production. Finally, the guest editors argue for a dramatic re-think of current forms of state and non-state social protections as responses to the precarization of work and employment across countries in both the Global ‘North’ and ‘South’.

Co-creation and the state in a global context

2020 ◽  
pp. 23-40
Author(s):  
Sue Brownill ◽  
Oscar Natividad Puig
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
The South ◽  
Global Context ◽  
The World ◽  
Local Stakeholders ◽  
Global North ◽  
Global Nature ◽  
To Come ◽  
North And South

This chapter draws on debates about the need for theory to ‘see from the South’ (Watson, 2009) to critically reflect on the increasingly global nature of co-creation both as a focus for research and for initiatives from governments around the world. It explores whether current understandings of co-creation narratives, which have tended to come from the Global North, can adequately characterise and understand the experience from the South, and the resulting need to decolonise knowledge and conduct research into the diverse ways in which co-creation can be constituted. It goes on to illustrate these debates by exploring the differing contexts for co-creation created by state-civil society relations in the project’s participating countries. These show that, while distinct contrasts emerge, it is important to move beyond dichotomies of north and south to explore the spaces of participation and resistance that are created within different contexts and how these are navigated by projects and communities engaged in co-creation. The chapter draws on material from interviews with local stakeholders and academics involved in the Co-Creation project and project conferences in Rio, Mexico City and Berlin.

Raising African Voices in the Global Dialogue on Care-Leaving and Emerging Adulthood

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Du Plessis van Breda ◽  
John Pinkerton
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Adulthood ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The South ◽  
African Experience ◽  
Global North ◽  
North And South

Globalization of knowledge and scholarship raises the challenges of dialogue between Global North and South. Northern knowledge and voice remain privileged, while writing from the South often goes unread. This is true also in emerging adulthood and care-leaving scholarship. The special issue of Emerging Adulthood titled “Care-Leaving in Africa” is the first collection of essays on care-leaving by African scholars. It presents both care-leaving and emerging adulthood scholars from the Global North a unique opportunity to consider the implications of a rising African voice for global dialogue. This article, coauthored by scholars from North and South, argues in favor of North–South dialogue but highlights several challenges inherent in this, including the indigenizing and thus marginalizing of African experience and scholarship and divergent constructions of key social concepts. The authors argue the need for mutually respectful discourse between North and South and present specific recommendations for fostering such global dialogue.

scholarly journals Precarity North and South: A Southern Critique of Guy Standing

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Scully
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Global South ◽  
Precarious Work ◽  
New Politics ◽  
Central Focus ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Global North ◽  
North And South

<p>Guy Standing is among the most provocative and influential analysts of the rise of precarious work around the world. His writing is part of a wave of global labour studies that has documented the spread of precarious work throughout the Global North and South. However, this article argues that by treating precarity around the world as a single phenomenon, produced by globalisation, the work of Standing and others obscures the different and much longer history of precarious work in the Global South. This article shows how many of the features that Standing associates with the contemporary “precariat” have long been widespread among Southern workers. This longer history of precarity has important implications for contemporary debates about a new politics of labour, which is a central focus of Standing’s recent work.</p>

scholarly journals Introduction: Critical Visual Theory

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 202-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Ludes ◽  
Winfried Nöth ◽  
Kathrin Fahlenbrach
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Visual Theory ◽  
Visual Discourse ◽  
Global North ◽  
Gendered Gaze ◽  
North And South

The studies selected for publication in this special issue on Critical Visual Theory can be divided into three thematic groups: (1) image making as power making, (2) commodification and recanonization, and (3) approaches to critical visual theory. The approaches to critical visual theory adopted by the authors of this issue may be subsumed under the following headings (3.1) critical visual discourse and visual memes in general and Anonymous visual discourse in particular, (3.2) collective memory and gendered gaze, and (3.3) visual capitalism, global north and south.

scholarly journals In Search of the Global East: Thinking between North and South

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 19-43
Author(s):  
Martin Müller
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Global South ◽  
Interstitial Position ◽  
Strategic Essentialism ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Connections ◽  
Global North ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
North And South ◽  
Global Relations

Carving up the world into Global North and Global South has become an established way of thinking about global difference since the end of the Cold War. This binary, however, erases what this paper calls the Global East — those countries and societies that occupy an interstitial position between North and South. This paper problematizes the geopolitics of knowledge that has resulted in the exclusion of the Global East, not just from the Global North and South, but from notions of globality in general. It argues that we need to adopt a strategic essentialism to recover the Global East for scholarship. To that end, it traces the global relations of IKEA’s bevelled drinking glass to demonstrate the urgency of rethinking the Global East at the heart of global connections, rather than separate from them. Thinking of such a Global East as a liminal space complicates the notions of North and South towards more inclusive but also more uncertain theorizing.

Development Education in the Age of COVID-19 and Climate Change

2022 ◽  
pp. 472-492
Author(s):  
Stephen McCloskey
Keyword(s):  
Social Needs ◽  
Active Citizenship ◽  
Development Education ◽  
South Central ◽  
Poverty And Inequality ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Global North ◽  
Climate Crisis ◽  
North And South

Development education (DE) is a radical learning pedagogy that combines analysis, discussion, and action to engage the learner in active citizenship toward positive social change. This chapter discusses the contribution that DE and other related ‘educations' can make to mitigating the climate crisis and addressing the growing levels of poverty and inequality in the global North and South. Central to this discussion is the neoliberal economic model that has driven ‘development' since the 1970s and placed the needs of the market above the social needs of citizens. This has become particularly apparent during the coronavirus pandemic which has overwhelmed the health services of countries across the world. The chapter argues for a more sustainable form of development based on de-growth and a Green New Deal.

Reimagining higher education in the wake of COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Zachary Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Journal Editor ◽  
The South ◽  
Scholarship Of Teaching ◽  
Creative Commons ◽  
The World ◽  
Global North ◽  
North And South

In this editorial, journal editor-in-chief, Zach Simpson, introduces the peer-reviewed articles and reflections in Volume 4, Issue 2 of the SOTL in the South journal. These papers, Zach argues, each reimagine aspects of higher education: the classroom, the curriculum, the role of SOTL and so on. In addition, the editorial addresses the current (at the time of publication) coronavirus pandemic afflicting the world, arguing that COVID-19 is not only deepening inequalities between the global North and South, but also rendering SOTL ever more important.Keywords: SOTL in the South, teaching and learning, higher educaiton, special issueHow to cite this article: Simpson, S. 2020. Reimagining higher education in the wake of COVID-19. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the South. v. 4, n. 1, p. 1-3. April 2020. Available at: https://sotl-south-journal.net/?journal=sotls&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=145This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

scholarly journals Shifting Approaches to Planning Theory: Global North and South

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 32-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanessa Watson
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Models ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Planning Theory ◽  
The Political ◽  
Important Research ◽  
The World ◽  
Global North ◽  
High Level ◽  
North And South ◽  
Over Time

Planning theory has shifted over time in response to changes in broader social and philosophical theory as well as changes in the material world. Postmodernism and poststructuralism dislodged modernist, rational and technical approaches to planning. Consensualist decision-making theories of the 1980s took forms of communicative and collaborative planning, drawing on Habermasian concepts of power and society. These positions, along with refinements and critiques within the field, have been hegemonic in planning theory ever since. They are, in most cases, presented at a high level of abstraction, make little reference to the political and social contexts in which they are based, and hold an unspoken assumption that they are of universal value, i.e. valid everywhere. Not only does this suggest important research methodology errors but it also renders these theories of little use in those parts of the world which are contextually very different from theory origin—in most cases, the global North. A more recent ‘southern turn’ across a range of social science disciplines, and in planning theory, suggests the possibility of a foundational shift toward theories which acknowledge their situatedness in time and place, and which recognize that extensive global difference in cities and regions renders universalized theorising and narrow conceptual models (especially in planning theory, given its relevance for practice) as invalid. New southern theorising in planning is drawing on a range of ideas on societal conflict, informality, identity and ethnicity. Postcolonialism and coloniality have provided a useful frame for situating places historically and geographically in relation to the rest of the world. However, the newness of these explorations still warrants the labelling of this shift as a ‘southern theorizing project’ in planning rather than a suggestion that southern planning theory has emerged.

Development Education in the Age of COVID-19 and Climate Change

2021 ◽  
pp. 153-173
Author(s):  
Stephen McCloskey
Keyword(s):  
Social Needs ◽  
Active Citizenship ◽  
Development Education ◽  
South Central ◽  
Poverty And Inequality ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Global North ◽  
Climate Crisis ◽  
North And South

Development education (DE) is a radical learning pedagogy that combines analysis, discussion, and action to engage the learner in active citizenship toward positive social change. This chapter discusses the contribution that DE and other related ‘educations' can make to mitigating the climate crisis and addressing the growing levels of poverty and inequality in the global North and South. Central to this discussion is the neoliberal economic model that has driven ‘development' since the 1970s and placed the needs of the market above the social needs of citizens. This has become particularly apparent during the coronavirus pandemic which has overwhelmed the health services of countries across the world. The chapter argues for a more sustainable form of development based on de-growth and a Green New Deal.

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