scholarly journals International Securities: global inequalities and new threats

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (44) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
María Eugenia Cardinale
Keyword(s):  
International Security ◽  
Global South ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
International Securities ◽  
Security View

This article proposes to present diverse perspectives on international security. We divide the analysis in two pillars: an approach characteristic of the strongest powers and, on the other hand, a security view that take into account international hierarchies, where is possible to identify global inequalities. We examine the second pillar, understanding that autonomy is the basis for security considerations from the Global South.

Real estate politicians in India

Urban Studies ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 004209802093791
Author(s):  
Sai Balakrishnan ◽  
Narendar Pani
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Global South ◽  
Entry Point ◽  
The Other ◽  
Labour Costs ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Electoral Democracy ◽  
Housing Needs ◽  
The One

This article uses as its entry point the empirical phenomenon of what we call ‘real estate politicians’ in India; that is, politicians whose main source of wealth is real estate. We argue that the rise of real estate politicians is situated within deeper processes of ‘labour voter contradictions’ in low-wage democratic societies of the global south. On the one hand, countries like India largely compete in the global economy based on their cheaper labour costs, but on the other hand, the condition of electoral democracy makes it imperative for politicians to meet the consumption, including housing, needs of their low-wage but electorally mobilised labour voters. As real estate politicians mediate the negotiated access of unorganised and surplus workers to informal land and unauthorised housing, the delinking of housing struggles from labour struggles leaves processes of capitalist agglomeration unchecked. This, we argue, blunts the potential of land struggles to emerge as sites of radical labour politics.

Conclusion

Facing West ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 295-305
Author(s):  
David R. Swartz
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Rapid Growth ◽  
Church Attendance ◽  
Global South ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Past ◽  
Majority World ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Future

This conclusion evaluates the prospects of the global reflex going forward. On one hand, some global voices have bolstered Christian Americanism. Westerners have used Christians from the Global South to maintain established views and practices, and populists have resisted cosmopolitan trends. On the other hand, declining Western church attendance, rapid growth in the Majority World, immigration patterns, and flourishing theological work from the East and South suggest persistent influence on a range of issues such as race, missiology, social justice, sexuality, and spirituality. If moderate wings—such as Christians of color, Majority World immigrants, and younger churchgoers—choose to identify as evangelical, they represent the future more than practitioners of Christian Americanism who wax nostalgic for the past. Whatever the case, this book calls for global narrations of evangelicalism that include nonwhite voices engaged in both mutuality and resistance.

The Global South and International Security

2018 ◽  
pp. 381-396
Author(s):  
Rita Abrahamsen ◽  
Adam Sandor
Keyword(s):  
International Security ◽  
Global South ◽  
Central Place ◽  
The Other ◽  
Weak State ◽  
Major Threat ◽  
Policy Debates ◽  
The One ◽  
Peacekeeping Missions

This chapter shows how areas of the global South have moved from the periphery to the center of academic and policy debates about international security. It argues that speaking about the global South as a singular, uniform unit is fraught with difficulties, analytically and politically, and that areas of the global South are occupying an increasingly central, yet ambivalent and contradictory position, within contemporary international security. On the one hand, the global South appears in the figure of the “weak state” as a major threat. On the other, the global South performs as the “intervener state” by contributing the majority of personnel to peacekeeping missions in the world’s trouble spots. The chapter seeks to capture this contradictory position of being part problem, part solution. It concludes that the global South is likely to continue to occupy a central place within international security and that the contradictions are likely to multiply.

The inventiveness of informality: an introduction

2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Nicholas A. Phelps
Keyword(s):  
Global South ◽  
The Other ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Urban Economic ◽  
Interdisciplinary Dialogue ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
Polar Opposite

In this introduction I set the scene for the five full papers that appear in this special issue. Noting the lack of major overlaps in the concerns of different strands of literature as they address issues of urban economic informality, I argue the need for an interdisciplinary dialogue for uncovering aspects of the ingenuity, innovation and inventiveness found among informal businesses in the global South. I also argue the need to move beyond polar opposite perspectives on the radical inventiveness of businesses on the one hand and the purely imitative or survivalist behaviour of businesses on the other hand.

Postscript

Focaal ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 (68) ◽  
pp. 83-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorna A. Rhodes
Keyword(s):  
Global South ◽  
The Other ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Thematic Section ◽  
Industrial Democracies ◽  
Future Work

Although the modern prison was one aspect of colonial control, the literature on penality centers almost entirely on the ways in which control of populations has played out in advanced, industrial democracies. Each of the articles in this thematic section, on the other hand, describes a prison in one of the countries of the global South. The authors have given us beautifully fine-grained descriptions of the internal world of these prisons and much to think about in terms of possible directions for future work.

Subalternity, Neoliberal Seductions, and Freedom: Decolonizing the Global Market of Social Change

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohan J. Dutta ◽  
Ambar Basu
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Global South ◽  
Global Market ◽  
The Other ◽  
Change Processes ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Academic Institutions ◽  
Working Through ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
And Gender

In this essay, working through our journeys as academic-activists collaborating with subaltern communities in the global South on social change processes, we perform autoethnographically a politics of decolonizing the neoliberal reproduction of social change in postcolonial spaces. Through our conversation, we interrogate the White/Brown privileges of race, caste, class, and gender that remain erased in much postcolonial theorizing of culture and social change. Our autoethnographic dialogue, on one hand, interrupts the seduction of neoliberal tropes in communication for social change and, on the other hand, decolonizes autoethnography as a practice for (re)producing privileged identities within the imperial sites of primarily U.S.-based academic institutions. Through the interrogation of our own caste, class, and gender positions within postcolonial social change collaborations that erase spaces for subaltern articulation, we seek to decolonize the postcolonial privileges that are created, circulated, and promoted in the multicultural Anglo-Saxon/Asian university. Our conversations amid the impossibilities of co-creation in subaltern spaces suggest strategies of decolonizing the production of postcolonial knowledge, offering radical frames that fundamentally redefine the interpretations, practices, and politics of communication and social change in postcolonial contexts.

Representing disability and development in the global south

2018 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 281-284
Author(s):  
Leslie Swartz
Keyword(s):  
Global South ◽  
The Other ◽  
Development Work ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
The South ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One

I reflect on two aesthetics which are at play in the presentation of critical disability and development work in the global south. On the one hand, authors of critical texts commonly use very complex and abstruse language, which may make such texts relatively inaccessible to some disabled people in the global south. On the other hand, the ways in which development work in the south is portrayed sometimes emphasises methods of engagement which may seen to be infantilising. Drawing on my own experience in such engagement activities, I suggest that it is important to understand, and to subvert, dominant forms of representation.

scholarly journals THE ARCTIC REGION, EUROPEAN UNION AND CLIMATE CHANGE, AS A GLOBAL THREAT TO SECURITY

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 64-68
Author(s):  
Mihaela BUŞE
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
European Union ◽  
International Security ◽  
Arctic Region ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Global Threat ◽  
The Arctic Region

  The Arctic region, on one hand, an area situated so far from the European Union and, on the other hand, an environment so hostile to life, is în the spotlight of the world's powers. The resources, so necessary for the nations, ‒ the riches în the depths of the soil and în the ocean ‒, the potential of tourism and the importance of shorter transport routes aroused the interest of some actors în the region. The European Union has developed a policy for the Arctic region. Are the European Union՚s concerns strictly related to security and the economy or is there a much wider horizon of goals to be achieved?   Keywords: The Arctic region; European Union; globalization; climate change; threat; international security.  

A study of cometary eruptions through OH radio-lines

1999 ◽  
Vol 173 ◽  
pp. 249-254
Author(s):  
A.M. Silva ◽  
R.D. Miró
Keyword(s):  
Short Duration ◽  
Growth Curves ◽  
The Other ◽  
Initial Mass ◽  
Radio Lines ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Sudden Rise

AbstractWe have developed a model for theH2OandOHevolution in a comet outburst, assuming that together with the gas, a distribution of icy grains is ejected. With an initial mass of icy grains of 108kg released, theH2OandOHproductions are increased up to a factor two, and the growth curves change drastically in the first two days. The model is applied to eruptions detected in theOHradio monitorings and fits well with the slow variations in the flux. On the other hand, several events of short duration appear, consisting of a sudden rise ofOHflux, followed by a sudden decay on the second day. These apparent short bursts are frequently found as precursors of a more durable eruption. We suggest that both of them are part of a unique eruption, and that the sudden decay is due to collisions that de-excite theOHmaser, when it reaches the Cometopause region located at 1.35 × 105kmfrom the nucleus.

Closing the GAP—A 5Å Scanning Microscope

1969 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 6-7
Author(s):  
A. V. Crewe
Keyword(s):  
Normal Form ◽  
The Other ◽  
Resolving Power ◽  
Scanning Microscope ◽  
Conventional Microscope ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Closing The Gap ◽  
Thermal Sources ◽  
Better Than ◽  
Transmission Microscope

We have become accustomed to differentiating between the scanning microscope and the conventional transmission microscope according to the resolving power which the two instruments offer. The conventional microscope is capable of a point resolution of a few angstroms and line resolutions of periodic objects of about 1Å. On the other hand, the scanning microscope, in its normal form, is not ordinarily capable of a point resolution better than 100Å. Upon examining reasons for the 100Å limitation, it becomes clear that this is based more on tradition than reason, and in particular, it is a condition imposed upon the microscope by adherence to thermal sources of electrons.

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