Salud y poder: ¿cuerpos y territorios sacrificados?

Ecología Política. Cuadernos de debate internacional ◽

10.53368/ep61fcop01 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 10-15

Author(s):

Paula Re ◽

Gabriela Levato

Keyword(s):

Public Spaces ◽

Global South

The webs of life imposed by capitalism and neoliberalism destroyed the vital supports for the reproduction of life - a culture of patriarchal rule, reflected in the ownership of goods and bodies, and the privatization of public spaces. Extractivist dynamics on common natural assets in the Global South produced diseased territories and sacrificed bodies, a logic that is also reproduced in cities in different continents and that requires us to analyze and understand this new urban extractivism and its health-body-territory relationship.

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Online Multilingualism in African Written Conversations

Studies in African Linguistics ◽

10.32473/sal.v49i1.122272 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 49 (1) ◽

pp. 141-159

Author(s):

Carmen Pérez-Sabater ◽

Ginette Maguelouk-Moffo

Keyword(s):

National Identity ◽

Public Spaces ◽

Global South ◽

Code Switching ◽

Football Players ◽

Language Mixing ◽

History Of ◽

Lexical Items ◽

Online Texts

The objective of this research is to analyse current written practices within the global South. Specifically, we examine language mixing phenomena in written online texts publicly displayed on the official Facebook page of one of the two most important football players in the history of Cameroon, Samuel Eto’o. By means of a quantitative and languaging analysis proposed by Androutsopoulos (2014), we see that indigenous Cameroonian languages are now being written in public spaces. Instances of lexical items in these languages are sometimes inserted in Facebook comments to establish local/national identity, to emphasise the fact that the player is a Cameroonian. However, Cameroonian national identity still is usually constructed through the exclusive use of English and French. Interestingly, the study shows that code-switching (CS) to a particular language may function as a distancing technique, an impoliteness strategy towards the player.

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Gerontology and Urban Public Spaces of Global South: Case of China

Springer Geography - Perception, Design and Ecology of the Built Environment ◽

10.1007/978-3-030-25879-5_20 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 473-486

Author(s):

Saptarshi Kolay

Keyword(s):

Public Spaces ◽

Global South

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Art’s failure to generate urban renewal: Lessons from Jerusalem

Urban Studies ◽

10.1177/0042098017743682 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 55 (15) ◽

pp. 3474-3491 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Meirav Aharon-Gutman

Keyword(s):

Urban Renewal ◽

Social Action ◽

Public Spaces ◽

Global South ◽

Public Realm ◽

Specific Intervention ◽

Site Specific ◽

Theoretical Concepts ◽

Political Act ◽

Art Activities

Based on fieldwork conducted in a seam line neighbourhood in Jerusalem, this article contributes to the ongoing discourse on art in public spaces as a generator of urban renewal. The article suggests that re-thinking this convention from a Global South perspective would enable us to critically discuss the relation between art in public spaces and urban renewal. This research shows how site-specific intervention art activities had produced a conflict that consequently led to the expulsion of the artists group from the neighbourhood. Three theoretical concepts from Hannah Arendt’s work were used in the analysis of the results: political/social, action and public realm. This article claims that the artists’ group has aspired to be simultaneously ‘social’ and ‘political’: by means of a political act they wished to create a ‘dialogue’ and a ‘meeting point’ with Palestinians residing in East Musrara. Every attempt to be simultaneously political and social was perceived by the neighbourhood representatives as deceitful and threatening.

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