Beyond a standardised urban lexicon: which vocabulary matters?

2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 501-506
Author(s):  
Aseem Inam
Keyword(s):  
Global South ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Access To Resources ◽  
Urban Inequality ◽  
Global North ◽  
Climate Crisis

This epilogue reflects on the introduction and three papers of this special issue in order to highlight the issue’s contribution to the vital conversation of re-wording and re-theorising the urban. To further advance this conversation, we must recognise the very real imbalances of access to resources and power to influence that exist between the global North and global South, including resources to conduct research and power to publish journals. As our cities face multiple and urgent challenges such as the climate crisis, urban inequality, global pandemics and inadequate infrastructure, it is never too soon to re-think, to re-word and ultimately, to re-act the urban lexicon.

Notes from the Editors, July-August 2019

2019 ◽  
pp. c2-127
Author(s):  
The Editors
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
World System ◽  
Dynamic Structure ◽  
Global South ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Political ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Monthly Review ◽  
Global North

buy this issue This special issue of Monthly Review is meant both to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Harry Magdoff's The Age of Imperialism: The Economics of U.S. Foreign Policy, which was devoted to the analysis of imperialism at the height of U.S. hegemony, and to carry this analysis forward to address the present era of late imperialism in the twenty-first century. In bringing together work on the political economy of imperialism in the current era of globalized production, we seek to transcend the now fashionable view within the Western academic left that the concept of imperialism is obsolete. The imperialist world system stands not only for capitalism at its most concrete historical level, but also for the entire dynamic structure of power constituting accumulation on a world scale, which can only be understood in terms of a developing global rift between center and periphery, global North and global South. Failure to attend to this fissure would be fatal for humanity.

scholarly journals Policing and Preventing Gender Violence in the Global South

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. i-ii
Author(s):  
Camilla Magalhães Gomes ◽  
Carmen Hein Campos ◽  
Melissa Bull ◽  
Kerry Carrington
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Global South ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
The Social ◽  
International Collaborations ◽  
Island Communities ◽  
Global North ◽  
Cross Fertilization

This special issue is the product of a workshop on innovations in policing and preventing gender violence in the Global South, hosted by Queensland University of Technology (QUT) Centre for Justice 3-4 December 2019. The event was attended by scholars from Brazil, Pacific Island communities, Bangladesh, Argentina, and several Australian jurisdictions. Hence the articles in this special issue reflect the diverse nationalities present at the event. A central aim of the workshop realised in this special issue is the stimulation of innovation in understanding the policing and prevention of gender violence through novel international collaborations and cross-fertilization. It reverses the assumptions that underpin the epistemic injustice of the social sciences, that innovations generally flow only from the Global North to the Global South. This special issue shows that it can be the other way round.

scholarly journals Externalization at work: responses to migration policies from the Global South

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Inka Stock ◽  
Ayşen Üstübici ◽  
Susanne U. Schultz
Keyword(s):  
Global South ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Link Type ◽  
Border Zones ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Global North ◽  
The Media ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Different Levels

AbstractThe term “externalization” is used by a range of migration scholars, policy makers and the media to describe the extension of border and migration controls beyond the so-called ‘migrant receiving nations’ in the Global North and into neighboring countries or sending states in the Global South. It refers to a wide range of practices from controls of borders, rescue operations, to measures addressing the drivers of migration. The ambition of this Special Issue is to contribute to the mapping of the responses to externalization dynamics. The different articles in this volume are chosen to exemplify some of these processes at different levels of analysis. Through diverse disciplinary perspectives, the authors show how practices of externalization are being confronted, succumbed, modified and contested by individual (would-be) migrants, civil society actors and the host states’ institutions in different parts of the globe. In an effort to move away from a sole focus on border zones in the Global North, the Special Issue contributes to emerging literature shifting the locus of analysis to places in the Global South, which are conventionally understood as “transit” or “sending” countries in Africa, America as well as within Europe itself.

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.

scholarly journals Special Issue. Towards Global Green Criminological Dialogues: Voices from the Americas and Europe. Guest Editors' Introduction

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
David Rodríguez Goyes ◽  
Ragnhild Sollund ◽  
Nigel South
Keyword(s):  
Social Democracy ◽  
Global South ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Cognitive Justice ◽  
Global North

The aim of this dual special issue project—simultaneously published in two languages in two distinguished international journals (International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy and Critica Penal y Poder) —is to support the goal of Southern criminology to level inequalities in the valuing of criminological knowledge in the Global North and the Global South (Carrington, Dixon et al. 2019; Carrington, Hogg et al. 2019; Carrington, Hogg and Sozzo 2016). In opening ‘dialogues’ and collaborations between South and North, we aim to highlight the important contributions made by writers on the environment, justice and good ways of living to the democratisation of knowledge and pursuit of cognitive justice (Santos 2009, 2014, 2018).

Reconfiguring nature: Resource security and the limits of expert knowledge

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 512-523
Author(s):  
Christian Kehrt ◽  
John Martin
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Expert Knowledge ◽  
Global South ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Global North ◽  
Competition For Resources ◽  
Resource Security ◽  
The Way

The central aim of this special issue is to explore the role of expert knowledge in shaping the way countries have sought to ensure a continuing supply of natural resources in order to feed and fuel processes of industrialisation. These case studies illustrate the way in which the competition for resources not only profoundly affects those countries in the Global North which are the beneficiaries of the resources but also the populations of the countries (often in the Global South) from which the resources are extracted.

scholarly journals Introduction: Infrastructural stigma and urban vulnerability

Urban Studies ◽  
2022 ◽  
pp. 004209802110556
Author(s):  
Hanna Baumann ◽  
Haim Yacobi
Keyword(s):  
Constitutive Relationship ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Urban Inequality ◽  
Urban Vulnerability ◽  
Public Networks ◽  
Urban Territories ◽  
Global North ◽  
The One ◽  
The City

In this introduction to the Special Issue ‘Infrastructural Stigma and Urban Vulnerability’, we outline the need to join up debates on infrastructural exclusion on the one hand and urban stigma on the other. We argue that doing so will allow us to develop a better understanding of the co-constitutive relationship between the material and the symbolic structures of the city shaping urban exclusion and vulnerability. Positing that stigma is not merely a symbolic force but has significant material effects, we show how urban dwellers often experience it in deeply embodied ways, including through impacts on their physical health. Furthermore, stigma is not only imposed on the built environment through discourse, it also emanates from the materiality of the city; this agentic role of the city is often disregarded in sociologically-informed approaches to urban stigma. When infrastructures become sites of contestation about urban inclusion, stigma can be utilised by stigmatised residents to demand connection to public networks, and the wider symbolic inclusion this entails. Through examining the issue of infrastructural stigma in cities and urban territories across the Global North and Global South, as well as the places in between, the nine articles in this Special Issue pay attention to the global relationalities of infrastructural stigma. Ultimately, our focus on the infrastructural origins of stigma draws attention to the structural causes of urban inequality – a reality which is often occluded by both stigma itself and by prevalent academic approaches to understanding it.

Oceans and Landless Farms: Linking Southern and Northern Shadow Places of Industrial Livestock (1954–1975)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Floor Haalboom
Keyword(s):  
Animal Feed ◽  
Marine Ecosystem ◽  
Global South ◽  
Humboldt Current ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Boom And Bust ◽  
History Of ◽  
Global North

This article argues for more extensive attention by environmental historians to the role of agriculture and animals in twentieth-century industrialisation and globalisation. To contribute to this aim, this article focuses on the animal feed that enabled the rise of ‘factory farming’ and its ‘shadow places’, by analysing the history of fishmeal. The article links the story of feeding fish to pigs and chickens in one country in the global north (the Netherlands), to that of fishmeal producing countries in the global south (Peru, Chile and Angola in particular) from 1954 to 1975. Analysis of new source material about fishmeal consumption from this period shows that it saw a shift to fishmeal production in the global south rather than the global north, and a boom and bust in the global supply of fishmeal in general and its use in Dutch pigs and poultry farms in particular. Moreover, in different ways, the ocean, and production and consumption places of fishmeal functioned as shadow places of this commodity. The public health, ecological and social impacts of fishmeal – which were a consequence of its cheapness as a feed ingredient – were largely invisible on the other side of the world, until changes in the marine ecosystem of the Pacific Humboldt Current and the large fishmeal crisis of 1972–1973 suddenly changed this.

Introduction to the Special Issue: Labor in the Global South—A Search for Solutions

2010 ◽  
Vol 15 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 293-301
Author(s):  
Abigail Cooke ◽  
Taekyoon Lim ◽  
Peter Norlander ◽  
Elena Shih ◽  
Chris Tilly
Keyword(s):  
Global South ◽  
Special Issue

Job Referrals in the Global South

Contexts ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-41
Author(s):  
Lindsey Ibañez
Keyword(s):  
Job Search ◽  
Global South ◽  
Labor Market Institutions ◽  
Industrialized Countries ◽  
Employment Relation ◽  
Global North ◽  
Social Safety Nets ◽  
Sociological Studies ◽  
And Control ◽  
Lower Income Countries

Most sociological studies of job searching are from higher-income, industrialized countries, often referred to as the Global North. Much less is understood about job search behavior in the lower-income countries of the Global South, where there are fewer labor market institutions, weaker social safety nets, higher underemployment, more informality, and more precarity. In this environment of deprivation and insecurity, low-wage workers in the Global South turn to their personal networks for the resources that markets and states cannot provide. While job referrals allow workers to earn a living, however, they also extend employer surveillance and control beyond the bounds of the employment relation.

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