scholarly journals REVIEW: Noted: Destructive pandemic impact on Global South media

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (1and2) ◽  
pp. 317-318
Author(s):  
Lee Duffield
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Emerging Economies ◽  
Global South ◽  
The West ◽  
Media Freedom ◽  
Thomson Reuters ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Journalistic Practice

The Impact of COVID-19 on Journalism in Emerging Economies and the Global South, by Damian Radcliffe. London: Thomson Reuters Foundation. 2021. 142 pages. A NEW publication from the Thomson Reuters Foundation reviews the impacts of COVID-19 on journalism in Emerging Economies and the ‘Global South’. Working on the premise that media and journalism in these regions already face even greater challenges than in the ‘West’, this report describes a worsening of the situation through effects of the pandemic. It shows that factors external to media practice and media organisations are having destructive impacts, but proposes remedies which draw on internal strengths and professionalism in journalistic practice. The work is a qualitative research project obtaining analysis from 56 journalists from Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America, out of 15,000 journalists who have done courses offered by the foundation, as a backer of innovation and media freedom.

Social Security

2019 ◽  
pp. 652-656
Author(s):  
Katharina Müller
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Social Insurance ◽  
Global South ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Paradigm Shifts ◽  
Geographical Regions ◽  
Global North ◽  
Over Time

Social security is the protection provided by a given society to individuals and households, particularly in the case of old age. The design and scope of social security protection differs significantly across geographical regions, countries, and population groups, while also undergoing constant transformation over time. On a global scale, the area of social security witnessed three major paradigm shifts over the past 125 years: (1) formalization, sparked by Bismarck’s social insurance legislation in the 1880s; (2) privatization, initiated in the 1980s in Latin America and subsequently spreading to other regions, mainly Eastern Europe; and (3) universalization, as exemplified by the proliferation of non-contributory benefits in the Global South since the 2000s. This chapter outlines these trends to illustrate the transformation of social security in both the Global North and the Global South.

scholarly journals Blurring Borders: Investigating the Western/Global South Identity of Human Security

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 143-161
Author(s):  
Maiken Gelardi
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Conceptual Development ◽  
Human Security ◽  
Global South ◽  
The West ◽  
Binary Logic ◽  
Similarities And Differences

In the globalizing international relations (IR) debate, the “West” and “Global South” have conventionally been presented as fundamentally different categories. This has disguised any interconnectedness between the two categories and variation within them. What does this mean for the quest for “Global South theorizing?” In order to address this binary logic in the globalizing IR literature, I analyze the case of human security as an example of Global South theorizing. First, I disentangle the Western/Global South origins and inflection of the human security concept and find that there is Global South agency related to its conceptual development, but also Western inflections. Second, I examine and compare the apparent rejection of the concept in two regions of the Global South—Southeast Asia and Latin America—and find both similarities and differences in their disinterest in engaging with the concept. Curiously, the similarities lie in the positionality of these regions and their difference to the West. In this way, the article points to the danger of using these categories in a manner that reemphasizes binary logics and their constitutive effects, and it exposes the complexity regarding what we consider Global South and Global South theorizing.

scholarly journals High Mortality Rate Among Latin American Immigrants With Covid-19 Hospitalised in Milan, Italy: Data From the Luigi Sacco Hospital Registry

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Giacomelli ◽  
Anna Lisa Ridolfo ◽  
Cecilia Bonazzetti ◽  
Letizia Oreni ◽  
Federico Conti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Central Eastern Europe ◽  
Risk Of Death ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
Latin American Immigrants ◽  
Central Eastern ◽  
Hospital Registry ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Background To assess differences in the probability of COVID-19-related death between native Italians and immigrants hospitalised with COVID-19. Methods This was a retrospective study of prospectively collected data conducted at the ASST Fatebenefratelli-Sacco Hospital in Milan, Italy, between 21 February and 31 November 2020. Uni- and multivariable Cox proportional hazard models were used to assess the impact of the patients' origin on the probability of COVID-19-related death. Results The study population consisted of 1,179 COVID-19 patients: 921 Italians (78.1%) and 258 immigrants (21.9%) from Latin America (99, 38.4%), Asia (72, 27.9%), Africa (50, 19.4%) and central/eastern Europe (37, 14.3%). The Italians were older (p < 0.001) and more frequently affected by co-morbidities (p < 0.001). Mortality was significantly greater among the Italians than the immigrants as a whole (26.6% vs 12.8%; p < 0.001), and significantly greater among the immigrants from Latin America than among those from Asia, Africa and central/eastern Europe (21.2% vs 8.3%, 6% and 8.1%, respectively; p = 0.016). Multivariate analyses showed that a Latin American origin was independently associated with an increased risk of death (adjusted hazard ratio 1.95, 95% confidence interval 1.17–3.23). Conclusions Our findings support the need to strengthen COVID-19 information and prevention initiatives in the Latin American community living in Milan.

scholarly journals The representation of the Eastern and the Western Europe as the Metaphore of East and West in Dracula by Bram Stoker (Postcolonial Approach)

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mulad Aji Muhammad
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Bram Stoker ◽  
The West ◽  
East And West ◽  
Eastern And Western Europe

<p>This research analyses some issues related to the representation of the Eastern and the Western Europe as the metaphore of East and West and the postcolonial issue reflected on Bram Stoker’s Dracula. The aims of this research are to reveal Eastern and the Western Europe as the metaphore of East and West and the postcolonial issue reflected onthe novel. This research applies theory of Orientalism and theory of ambivalence as the main theories. This research is qualitative research. </p><p>From the analysis, it can be concluded that <em>Dracula</em> by Bram Stoker implicitly contains the issue of the East and the West by representing Eastern and Western Europe. The Eastern Europe representations are exotic landscape, tradition and superstition, and lustful. The Western Europe representations are the technology and rationality, and protagonist characters. The narrative of Dracula is also the representation of the West domination over the East through the monolith stigmatization. It reflects the strength of the West as well as the flaw of the West in taking information about the East. As the result the text remains ambivalence.</p><p>Keywords: Ambivalence, East, Poscolonialism, Representation, West </p>

scholarly journals The impact of port governance and infrastructures on maritime containerized trade on the West Coast of Latin America

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beatriz Lopez-Bermudez ◽  
María Jesús Freire-Seoane ◽  
Ignacio De la Peña Zarzuelo
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
West Coast ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Strong Dependence ◽  
Geographical Area ◽  
Maritime Transport ◽  
The West ◽  
The Impact

Latin American countries have historically had a strong dependence on trade, and are mostly characterized by being exporters of raw materials and importers of manufactured products. This fact has brought about a less negative impact of the world crisis on economic growth, mainly because of the high prices of raw materials.This paper focuses on this geographical area (the West Coast of Latin America) between 2008 and 2015, and adds to the literature by assessing institutional, port-related and economic factors that influence maritime transport. The analysis makes use of panel data models with fixed and random effects where the Hausman test has been applied in order to define a solid specification of all the ports, as well as to discount the particular peculiarities of each country.It is shown that the analysis of maritime transport requires the analysis of a number of variables apart from trade (volume of TEUs), infrastructures, superstructures (number of calls, gantry cranes), and that other variables, such as port governance, which are sometimes difficult to quantify, need also to be taken into account.

Decolonizing Childhoods

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manfred Liebel
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Global South ◽  
The World ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Dignified Life ◽  
The Way

This book addresses key aspects of the post- and decolonial analysis of childhood, such as the scope and limitations of Eurocentric concepts of childhood and the impact of social inequality aggravated by capitalist globalization on children's life prospects. In this context, it discusses the specific modes of agency emerging in children of the Global South. It reconstructs the way in which the colonialization process and the ideologies that supported it have used the metaphor of childhood, and investigates the extent to which they are reproduced in processes of colonizing childhoods. The book presents some colonial and postcolonial policy approaches to modelling childhood in different regions of the world, and asks how, within the postcolonial constellation, children's rights are to be understood and how to deal with them to overcome postcolonial paternalism. Particularly, it discusses various forms of paternalism and asks how they can be overcome in the field of rights-based children’s protection and participation and how child-led movements in the Global South can be understood as a form of citizenship from below. The book explains theoretical and conceptional reflections by case studies from Africa, Latin America and Asia. Finally, the book portrays efforts directed against the invisibilization, marginalization and social exclusion of childhoods and the recuperation of a dignified life of children.

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