scholarly journals Back to the Cave: Cold, Hungry and Cruel? An epithet for the World Bank’s neoliberal economy project

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Veronica G. Caparas
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Global South ◽  
Economic Downturn ◽  
Migrant Labour ◽  
The North ◽  
Strong State ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
The World ◽  
Neoliberal Development

In this article, I show that the World Bank, along with other international financial institutions, is the primary architect of neoliberal policy of privatizing the formation of higher education and the migration of skilled labour from the Global South to the Global North. The Bank, through development gurus and theories orchestrating the pro-North development agenda, systematically manoeuvres the neoliberalization of higher education and migrant labour from the 1980s to the late 2000s with the promise of democracy, equity, justice and prosperity. Despite massive doses of The Bank-prescribed neoliberal development pills, the majority of the world’s population has yet to experience the promise. The Global South, through three selected countries that see the wisdom of wielding strong state roles in delivering social services, is able to partly parry the deadly sting of the 2008 global economic downturn. The South, immersed as it is in the North’s development agenda as shown in selected literature, has become a doppelganger of the North. In determining the South’s dynamic in service delivery, I turn to Habermas’ communicative rationality that likewise brings to bear similarly framed thoughts as the yardstick of the South’s critical voice against the North’s continuing espousal of neoliberal policy. It is this critical voice that further cultivates people’s micropolitics of beliefs, gender and language, and cries out “no” to The Bank-prescribed neoliberalized higher education and migrant labour – a prescription that leads to and simulates a “back-to-the-cave” circumstance.

scholarly journals A Partnership of Un-Equals: Global South–North Research Collaborations in Higher Education Institutions

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Keneilwe Molosi-France ◽  
Sinfree Makoni
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Global South ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
Research Partnerships ◽  
The North ◽  
Research Collaborations ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Learning ◽  
The World ◽  
Learning Institutions ◽  
Research Resources

With the realisation that institutions of higher learning may play a powerful role in transforming the world, research partnerships between institutions in the Global South and North have gained popularity. These partnerships are meant to empower and strengthen the contribution of higher learning institutions and bridge the North/South knowledge divide. Considering the limited access to research resources in the Global South, it is anticipated that these partnerships will create research opportunities for scholars. However, while it can be acknowledged that the research partnerships can be of benefit to African institutions and economy, there are practical challenges that limit the success of most research partnerships. Using the authors’s experience this article explores and describes issues that surround research collaborations between institutions of higher learning in the Global South and North.

Decolonising cities of the global South in the classroom and beyond

2020 ◽  
Vol 91 (5) ◽  
pp. 535-552
Author(s):  
Astrid Wood
Keyword(s):  
Global South ◽  
Colonial Literature ◽  
The South ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The North ◽  
The World ◽  
North And South

In the post-colonial context, the global South has become the approved nomenclature for the non-European, non-Western parts of the world. The term promises a departure from post-colonial development geographies and from the material and discursive legacies of colonialism by ostensibly blurring the bifurcations between developed and developing, rich and poor, centre and periphery. In concept, the post-colonial literature mitigates the disparity between cities of the North and South by highlighting the achievements of elsewhere. But what happens when we try to teach this approach in the classroom? How do we locate the South without relying on concepts of otherness? And how do we communicate the importance of the South without re-creating the regional hierarchies that have dominated for far too long? This article outlines the academic arguments before turning to the opportunities and constraints associated with delivering an undergraduate module that teaches post-colonial concepts without relying on colonial constructs.

scholarly journals Economic globalisation and paradoxes

Temida ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 15-21
Author(s):  
Mirjana Dokmanovic
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equity ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
World Population ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
The North ◽  
The World ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The Rich

The increased development of technology and integration of markets have created possibilities to eradicate hunger, poverty and other illnesses of the mankind. Contrary, the world is facing opposite trends: the widening gap between the rich and the poor, increasing poverty, human security and conflicts. The negative effects of the globalisation that experience the majority of the world population are rooted at the ruling neoliberal model of macro economy, shaped and dictated by the international financial institutions, WTO, multilateral companies and transnational corporations. This logic is based on the free market economy, free flow of capital, resources, investments and labour force, trade liberalisation, deregulation, privatisation, reduction of social services, and elimination of the concept of ?the public good?. This economic model induces exploitation, discrimination, and inequalities, and therefore, it suits only to the big and powerful (states, markets, companies, individuals...), while brings disadvantages to the small and less powerful (states, markets, companies, individuals...). In addition, it deepens historical and contemporary inequalities based on race, sex, ethnicity, nationality etc. between and within states, and regions, including the West and the North. This context of development especially hurts vulnerable and marginalised groups, including women, resulting in their social exclusion and increased poverty. The efforts regarding the realisation of the UN Millennium Development Goals, including eradication of poverty and hunger, and development of gender equity, will be not effective at all until the neoliberal model should be replaced by the heliocentric, human rights approach to development.

scholarly journals Workers Who Benefit from the Exploitation of Other Workers

2020 ◽  
pp. 223-239
Author(s):  
Marcel Van der Linden
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Global South ◽  
The South ◽  
Real Wages ◽  
The Real ◽  
The North ◽  
Job Opportunities ◽  
Historical Outline ◽  
The World ◽  
Wage Earners

Often, all too often, global working-class solidarity remains fragile, conditional or fails to be realized in practice, whatever the lofty rhetoric may be. The present paper explores one possible explanation: workers in the North profit from the exploitation of workers in the South through cheap commodities and services, and additional job opportunities. For example, wage-earners in the North can buy T-shirts so advantageously because their real wages are much higher than the real wages of labourers in the Global South. This is what I would like to call a relational inequality within the world working class: some workers are better off because other workers are worse off. The paper presents a very tentative historical outline of global relational inequality since the 1830s.

Editorial

2005 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 7-7
Author(s):  
Diane Diacon
Keyword(s):  
Social Housing ◽  
Global South ◽  
Special Edition ◽  
Housing Projects ◽  
World Today ◽  
The North ◽  
The World ◽  
Award Competition ◽  
Innovative Approaches

For twenty years the World Habitat Award competition organised by the Building and Social Housing Foundation has identified innovative and long-lasting solutions to housing problems faced by countries of the global South as well as the North. Included in this special edition of Open House International are eighteen housing projects which demonstrate successful approaches to some of the most prevalent housing problems in the world today. These are all winners or finalists in the competition over the last five years. A brief description is provided of each project, together with a summary of the key innovative approaches used. Details are provided at the end of each chapter as to where further information can be obtained.

Beyond the Market: The Global South and the wto’s Normative Dimension

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 267-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vinícius Rodrigues Vieira
Keyword(s):  
World Trade Organization ◽  
World Trade ◽  
International Politics ◽  
Global South ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
Material Gain ◽  
The World ◽  
Multilateral System ◽  
Normative Dimension ◽  
Multilateral Regimes

Negotiators expect the World Trade Organization (wto) to be an arena for states to pursue their material gain. However, the wto also reflects symbolic aspects of international politics, in particular the notion of multilateralism. Although such a principle, in part, expresses Western dominance, Global South states have also benefited from multilateral regimes, and thus have incentives to legitimize them and behave according to their rules. Will the pattern of multilateralism change as other trade arrangements potentially gain more prominence? This article analyzes actions taken by Brazil and India in wto’s Doha Development Agenda (dda) and concludes that the multilateral system of trade will survive as Global South states participate in the organization to seek not just material gains but also to commit themselves to the international normative dimension.

scholarly journals Sustainability in Higher Education for the Global South:

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 156-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seema Purushothaman ◽  
Chitra Ravi ◽  
Harini Nagendra ◽  
Manu Mathai ◽  
Seema Mundoli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Global South ◽  
Educational Goal ◽  
The Third ◽  
Diverse Backgrounds ◽  
The World ◽  
Sustainability In Higher Education

A workshop on ‘Sustainability in Higher Education from the vantage of the Global South’was organized by the Azim Premji University between 12 and 14 January 2015 inBengaluru, India. Its goal was to explore how sustainability can be integrated into undergraduate,postgraduate and professional courses. The workshop was divided intofour sessions with interlinked themes – the first, with a focus on framing sustainability;the second, on integrating sustainability in higher education; the third, on sustainabilitycurricula; and the last, on pedagogy for sustainability. All four sessions were informedby the broader educational goal of enabling students from diverse backgrounds toenvision, conceptualise, research and implement sustainability in varied personal andprofessional contexts. Participants of the workshop drew upon their varied experiences,from India and institutions across the world, in the teaching and learning of the multidimensionalconcept of sustainability in diverse geographies. The questions, counterquestions,discussions and potential solutions raised during the workshop are presentedin this paper in a dialogic style.

Speaking Globally

2009 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
pp. 184-188
Author(s):  
Marcel van der Linden
Keyword(s):  
North Atlantic ◽  
Labor History ◽  
Global South ◽  
North Atlantic Region ◽  
Atlantic Region ◽  
Working Classes ◽  
The North ◽  
The World ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The North Atlantic

The recent growth of the working classes in various parts of the Global South (or what was called the Tricontinent of Africa, Asia, and Latin America some years ago) has important consequences for labor historians. For a very long time labor history was mainly based in the North Atlantic region, though there have also been important nuclei in the so-called socialist countries, Japan, Australia and New Zealand, and some institutional labor history could also be found in other parts of the world at least since the 1920s. Now, however, the Global South is playing an increasingly important role in the development of working class historiography.

Part II Analytical Approaches, Ch.11 Global South Approaches

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Atapattu Sumudu
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Economic Model ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
Global South ◽  
Tipping Points ◽  
International Environmental Law ◽  
Vulnerable Communities ◽  
The North ◽  
The World ◽  
Analytical Approaches

This chapter details the global South approaches to international environmental law. It first discusses the colonial origins of international law before tracing the evolution of international environmental law and the North-South divide. The chapter then looks at global South perspectives on international environmental law, including principles and frameworks adopted to address the North-South divide. It considers the potential and limits of these perspectives. Ultimately, the chapter argues that unless and until the neoliberal economic model based on capitalism is discarded in favour of a more ecologically friendly model that accommodates the needs of the global South, especially their vulnerable communities, not only will current North-South tensions be exacerbated, the world will also speedily move towards environmental tipping points from which there is no hope of return.

A Southern Charter for a Global Youth Studies to Benefit the World

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharlene Swartz
Keyword(s):  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Global South ◽  
The South ◽  
Youth Studies ◽  
The North ◽  
Self Reliance ◽  
The World ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
The Many

This essay reflects on the process of developing a handbook that foregrounds Southern perspectives on youth life-worlds, and does so by realigning theory, praxis, and justice. It applies the principles of self-reliance, solidarity, self-knowledge and a move from subordination to interdependence as described in the 1990 report of The South Commission, led by Julius Nyerere, to youth studies scholars from the Global South. Taking seriously the South Commission’s injunction that responsibility for change rests with those from the South who need to recreate their relationship with the North in order to make a global rather than parochial contribution, it describes the aims of the handbook and the many challenges experienced in producing it. Among these challenges are the difficulty Southern scholars have in producing theory, the precarity of their lives, the invisibility of much existing Southern scholarship, and the importance of communities of practice within the South and between the South and North. It concludes by offering a charter for remaking youth studies from one that universalizes Northern perspectives into a truly global youth studies, one that is enriched by, and welcomes the contribution of Global South scholars on their own terms.

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