The Sea of International Politics

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph R. Slaughter ◽  
Kerry Bystrom
Keyword(s):  
Atlantic World ◽  
International Politics ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
Global South ◽  
Geographic Region ◽  
South Atlantic ◽  
The South ◽  
Atlantic Rim ◽  
Different Parts ◽  
The Way

Responding to the way the Southern parts of the Atlantic have historically been obscured in conceptions of the Atlantic world and through the critical oceanic studies concepts of fluidity, solvency, and drift, this chapter serves as a critical introduction to the South Atlantic. Beginning with a rereading of the Atlantic Charter, it poses the South Atlantic both as a material geographic region (something along the lines of a South Atlantic Rim) and as a set of largely unfulfilled visions—including those of anti-imperial solidarity and resistance generated through imaginative and political engagement from different parts of the Global South with the Atlantic world. It also reflects on the conditions under which something called the “Global South Atlantic” could come into being and the modes of historical, cultural, and literary comparison by which a multilingual and multinational region might be grasped.

From Flanders to Pernambuco: Battleground Perceptions in the Portuguese Early Modern Atlantic World

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 316-341
Author(s):  
Miguel Dantas da Cruz
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Atlantic World ◽  
South Atlantic ◽  
The South ◽  
Direct Exposure ◽  
Political Dimensions ◽  
The Prestige ◽  
The Way

This article addresses the way the Portuguese experience in the seventeenth-century battlefields of Flanders, during the Iberian Union (1580–1640), reshaped Portuguese military thought and culture. It argues that their traditional martial perceptions – almost exclusively based in imperial experiences, especially against the Muslims in North Africa and in India – were transformed by the direct exposure to Spanish military endeavours in Europe. It also argues that the experience in Flanders resurfaced in the South Atlantic, in all its religious and political dimensions, transforming the prestige of Brazil as a battlefield. Finally, the article revisits the way the Flanders experience poisoned Spanish–Portuguese relations.

scholarly journals Spiritual Activism. Saving Mother Earth in Sápmi

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 342
Author(s):  
Siv Ellen Kraft
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Political Climate ◽  
The South ◽  
Spiritual Activism ◽  
Mother Earth ◽  
Different Parts ◽  
The Way

Arctic Shaman Circle was founded in Oslo in November 2018. This article discusses what the Circle’s founding document refers to as “spiritual activism”, and how this was translated into action over the year that followed. I will follow one case in particular, which concerns plans for a power plant at the base of the mountain Aahkansnjurhtjie in the South Sámi area. Aahkansnjurhtjie is a sacred Sámi mountain, the shamans claim, and should be protected accordingly. My focus is on the learning processes that have emerged as the shamans have explored and argued the case, locally and nationally. I examine the negotiations that have happened along the way, in a political climate that has so far been hostile to religious arguments of any sorts, and in this example, involves a group that is contested among the Sámi. Finally, I look at the role of “indigeneity” in regard to claims, performances and responses to these particular concerns, as these have played out in different parts of the Sámi geography.

Linking the Atlantic and Indian Oceans: Asian textiles, Spanish silver, global capital, and the financing of the Portuguese–Brazilian slave trade (c.1760–1808)

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-38
Author(s):  
J. Bohorquez
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Capital Flows ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
Global South ◽  
South Atlantic ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Atlantic History ◽  
The South ◽  
Global Capital ◽  
Institutional Foundations

AbstractThis article aims to analyse some of the multilateral flows of capital that contributed to weaving a Global South during the second half of the eighteenth century. It specifically revisits the functioning and financing of the Portuguese slave trade from a global perspective, and offers insights for assessing older frameworks that explain it, in either triangular or bilateral terms. The article argues that the Portuguese slave traffic should be liberated from the South Atlantic borders to which it has been confined. In so doing, it offers an Atlantic history in a global perspective, disclosing the connections between the Atlantic and Indian oceans. Putting the financing of the slave trade into a larger global perspective helps to more accurately explain how it actually operated in terms of the organization of trade. When the financial and institutional foundations of Asian and African trade are analysed together, it becomes evident that they were part of larger networks and capital flows, both westwards and eastwards, which were not just framed imperially or locally.

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