scholarly journals Beyond a standardised urban lexicon: which vocabulary matters?

2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 419-434
Author(s):  
Shreyashi Dasgupta ◽  
Noura Wahby
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Global South ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
The South ◽  
Complex Power ◽  
Global Patterns

Urban vocabulary has been influenced by global patterns of modernity, capitalism and anglophone academia. These lexicons are increasingly standardised and shape dominant conceptual approaches in city debates. However, contemporary urban theories indicate a shift toward understanding the ‘urban’ and ‘cities’ from multiple perspectives. An emerging urban vocabulary is being built to capture the significance of place, complex power dynamics and changing geographical landscapes. This special issue presents diverse perspectives on how urban lexicons can be decentred from anglophone thought, operate as organising urban logics, serve larger political projects, and shape and are reshaped by grounded urban practice. Articles from the Middle East and South Asia discuss the margins of vocabulary and how vocabularies located in the global South enable us to think through dilemmas of knowledge production. We contribute to debates on decolonising power and authority in urban thought by expanding on how to theorise from the South.

Reducing Vulnerability to Forced Labor and Trafficking of Short-Term, Low-Skilled Women Migrant Workers in the South Asia to Middle East Corridor

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hagar ElDidi ◽  
Chloe van Biljon ◽  
Muzna Fatima Alvi ◽  
Claudia Ringler ◽  
Nazmun Ratna ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Forced Labor ◽  
The South ◽  
Short Term

scholarly journals CPI Welcomes Carol Lee's Special Issue

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Abdi ◽  
Ali Abdi
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The South ◽  
Nation States

CPI Welcomes Carol Lee’s Illustrated Anthology of Poetry:No ReturnCarol Lee’s Special Issue is well timed given the magnitude of the recent natural disasters experienced in several tropical and subtropical parts of North America, as well as in south Asia, and the toll on human lives as millions are forced to relocate or flee their homes and seek asylum elsewhere because of wars, persecution, and discrimination. With clarity and precision, Lee’s Special Issue, unapologetically specifically questions, responses by leaders and citizens in northern nation-states to impacts of man-made and natural disasters and tragedies, especially in the south.

scholarly journals Introduction

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Migration Studies ◽  
The South ◽  
Global North ◽  
Blind Spots

It has become increasingly mainstream to argue that redressing the Eurocentrism of migration studies requires a commitment to decentering global North knowledge. However, it is less clear whether this necessarily means “recentering the South.” Against this backdrop, this introduction starts by highlighting diverse ways that scholars, including the contributors to this special issue, have sought to redress Eurocentrism in migration studies: (1) examining the applicability of classical concepts and frameworks in the South; (2) filling blind spots by studying migration in the South and South-South migration; and (3) engaging critically with the geopolitics of knowledge production. The remainder of the introduction examines questions on decentering and recentering, different ways of conceptualizing the South, and—as a pressing concern with regard to knowledge production—the politics of citation. In so doing, the introduction critically delineates the contours of these debates, provides a frame for this volume, and sets out a number of key thematic and editorial priorities for Migration and Society moving forward.

Sri Lanka: testimony to state terror

Race & Class ◽  
1985 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 71-84
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
South Asia ◽  
The Other ◽  
Sri Lankan ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The South ◽  
Military Dictatorship ◽  
Security Forces ◽  
State Terror ◽  
Authoritarian State

There are two nations in Sri Lanka, both ruled by the Sri Lankan government - one, the Sinhala/Buddhist South, under civilian rule, and the other, the Tamil North (and increasingly the East), under a military dictatorship. Ironically enough, the cause of this separate dispensation is alleged by the Sri Lankan government to be the figirt for a separate state by the Northern (and Eastern) Tamils. That story however, has been told at length in the special issue of Race & Class ('Sri Lanka: racism and the authoritarian state') which appeared in Ju ly 1984 on the anniversary of the '83 pogroms. Here we wish to record a few of the 200 affidavits (sworn before justices of the peace) from witnesses testifying to the atrocities of the security forces in Jaffna in the period March November 1984. (A fuller dossier, from which these documents have been excerpted, is published by the South Asia Bureau. *)

Community psychology and its (dis)contents, archival legacies and decolonisation

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 421-431 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed Seedat ◽  
Shahnaaz Suffla
Keyword(s):  
Community Psychology ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Global South ◽  
Scholarly Work ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
Sixth International Conference ◽  
Sixth International

This article serves as the introduction to the Special Issue on Liberatory and Critical Voices in Decolonising Community Psychologies. The Special Issue was inspired by the Sixth International Conference on Community Psychology, held in South Africa in May 2016, and resonates with the call for the conscious decolonisation of knowledge creation. We argue that the decolonial turn in psychology has re-centred critical projects within the discipline, particularly in the Global South, and offered possibilities for their (re)articulation, expansion, and insertion into dominant and mimetic knowledge production. In the case of Africa, we suggest that the work of decolonising community psychologies will benefit from engagement with the continent’s multiple knowledge archives. Recognising community psychologies’ (dis)contents and the possibilities for its reconstruction, and appealing to a liberatory knowledge archive, the Issue includes a distinctive collection of articles that are diverse in conceptualisation, content, and style, yet evenly and singularly focused on the construction of insurgent knowledges and praxes. As representations of both production and resistance, the contributions in this issue provide the intellectual and political platforms for social, gender, and epistemic justice. We conclude that there are unexplored and exciting prospects for scholarly work on the psychologies embedded in the overlooked knowledge archives of the Global South. Such work would push the disciplinary boundaries of community psychologies; help produce historicised and situated conceptions of community, knowledge, and liberation; and offer distinctive contributions to the global bodies of knowledge concerned with the well-being of all of humanity.

Digitality and Debordered Spaces in the Era of Streaming: A Global South Perspective

2021 ◽  
pp. 152747642110145
Author(s):  
Joe F. Khalil ◽  
Mohamed Zayani
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Cultural Politics ◽  
Video Streaming ◽  
Global South ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Entertainment Media ◽  
Digital Entertainment ◽  
Global Operations

Emerging digital entertainment media in the Global South are anchored in nation-state configurations, benefit from supranational affordances, and aspire to global operations. Drawing on Sassen’s “third spaces,” the article focuses on the case of Shahid, a Middle East-based video streaming platform and a hybrid media venture that operates at the intersection of the local and the global. The article suggests digital media entertainment territoriality is such that content services simultaneously inhabit geographic nation-state borders and transversally closed bordered spaces, and point to potential reconfigurations of power dynamics with such ventures functioning as spaces for negotiating cultural politics in the region.

Reducing vulnerability to forced labor and trafficking of short-term, low-skilled women migrant workers in the South Asia to Middle East corridor

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hagar ElDidi ◽  
Chloe van Biljon ◽  
Muzna Fatima Alvi ◽  
Claudia Ringler ◽  
Nazmun Ratna ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Forced Labor ◽  
The South ◽  
Short Term

scholarly journals Internationalisation and the global South

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Sergio Celis ◽  
Carolina Guzmán-Valenzuela
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Global South ◽  
Intercultural Education ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The South ◽  
Scholarship Of Teaching ◽  
Creative Commons ◽  
Political Dimensions

This special issue of SOTL in the South tackles the internationalisation of the scholarship of teaching and learning in the global South. In examining internationalisation as a means of driving globalisation, there is a group of forces that work together in a complex intersection that involve financial, military, environmental, migratory, technological, cultural, and political dimensions (Giddens, 1990). Many of these global forces are driven by commercial aims and flow from post-capitalism. In this context, this special issue portrays the struggles of conceiving and enacting internationalisation on campuses in the global South. These struggles are increasingly part of universities, yet this special issue also shows how Southern responses to internationalisation emerge from these struggles and project new practices inspired by the idea of intercultural education. Key words: Internationalisation, global South, Globalisation, Scholarship of teaching and learning, Special issue How to cite this article: Celis, S. & Guzmán-Valenzuela, C. 2021. Internationalisation and the Global South. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the South. 5(1): 1-5. DOI: 10.36615/sotls.v5i1.179. This 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 On the Meanings and Uses of Urban Space in the Arab City: An Historical Perspective

2021 ◽  
pp. 5-8
Author(s):  
Nezar AlSayyad
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Global South ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Urban Place ◽  
Developed World ◽  
Arab Middle East

This special issue of The Journal of Public Space deals with the idea of re-visioning places of public gathering in the Contemporary Arab City. The three keywords or concept in this formulation are the “Arab city”, and “Public gathering” and “urban place or space”. It is worthwhile to spend some time interrogating each of these concepts by themselves and in a relationship to each other. We may first ask what is the Arab city? Is it a city that is truly different from its counterparts in much of the global south? It is different from the non-Arab Middle East, or for that matter other cities in the developed world that underwent substantial changes over during the last few decades. Equally important is to posit the question regarding the types of public gatherings that occur in the Arab city today which require a specific spatial accommodation. And finally, it is essential to inquire about the nature of urban space in the so-called Arab city and to interrogate how this space is used to accommodate, contain and sometimes even to restrict different forms of public activities.

scholarly journals Introduction to Special issue: Brazilian Criminology in the 21st Century

2021 ◽  
pp. 104398622110504
Author(s):  
Vania Ceccato
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Global South ◽  
Public Security ◽  
Reference Source ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Security Challenges ◽  
Global North ◽  
Global Criminology

This article introduces the special issue “Brazilian Criminology in the 21st Century” that is composed of seven studies of contemporary security problems and related public security initiatives in Brazil. They are multidisciplinary contributions employing a large variety of methods, written by researchers based on Brazilian universities or research executed in cooperation with international colleagues. This is a unique and valuable reference source for researchers interested in Brazilian and Latin American security challenges as well as attempts to address them. By recognizing current barriers in knowledge production and sharing, the special issue calls for the creation of new opportunities for joint knowledge from the “criminologies” of the Global South and those from the Global North, befitting an inclusive global criminology worthy of the 21st century.

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