scholarly journals Nikos Papastergiadis: The Cultures Of The South As Cosmos

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (52) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikos Papastergiadis
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Difference ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Cultural Exchange ◽  
Authoritarian Regimes ◽  
Alternative Route ◽  
The South ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
A Site ◽  
Cultural Homogenization

As the Global South is increasingly interpenetrated by neo-liberal and authoritarian regimes the idea of the South as a site of emancipatory resistance and exotic cultural difference has ended. This article offers an alternative route into the cultures of the South. It focuses on the shifting forms of the South in contemporary visual art and outlines the possibilities of non-coercive forms of cultural exchange and the cartographies of a cosmopolitanism from below. This perspective on the South is most evident in the stories of embodied solidarity that stand in contrast to top down visions of socio-economic development and cultural homogenization.

The end of the Global South and the cultures of the South

Thesis Eleven ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 142 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikos Papastergiadis
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Difference ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Cultural Exchange ◽  
Global South ◽  
Authoritarian Regimes ◽  
Alternative Route ◽  
The South ◽  
Top Down ◽  
A Site ◽  
Cultural Homogenization

As the Global South is increasingly interpenetrated by neoliberal and authoritarian regimes, the idea of the South as a site of emancipatory resistance and exotic cultural difference has ended. This article offers an alternative route into the cultures of the South. It focuses on the shifting forms of the South in contemporary visual art and outlines the possibilities of the non-coercive forms of cultural exchange and the cartographies of a cosmopolitanism from below. This perspective on the South is most evident in in the stories of embodied solidarity that stand in contrast to the top-down visions of socio-economic development and cultural homogenization.

POLITICAL AND STRATEGIC COORDINATION AND COOPERATION FOR DEVELOPMENT: THE CASES OF ZPCSA AND GGC

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-36
Author(s):  
Paulo Fagundes Visentini ◽  
Analúcia Danilevicz Pereira
Keyword(s):  
South Atlantic ◽  
Strategic Orientation ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
The South ◽  
Strategic Issues ◽  
Strategic Coordination ◽  
Regional Order ◽  
Energy Products ◽  
A Site ◽  
Political Economic

The creation of the Zone of Peace and Cooperation of the South Atlantic (ZPCSA) in 1986 and the Gulf of Guinea Commission (GGC) in 2001 was about changes in the distribution of world power. This article argues that though they emerged at different times, their strategic orientation converges in a number of areas related to the significant interests in the South Atlantic as an area of stability in the region to be marked by strong political, economic and military ties. They also converge on the ideal for development, security and greater projection of power and influence in international affairs. The South Atlantic being a route of passage and trade, as a means of access and flow of energy products, the region became a site for new calculations of regional strategic powers about world affairs. The article also argues that ZPCSA and GGC are therefore crucial for the regional order and the development of higher capacities for cooperation on strategic issues. The actual point of convergence extends to ensuring the sovereignty through dialogue between the states in the region that are involved.

Guest Editor’s Introduction

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Aisha S. Durham ◽  
Wesley Johnson ◽  
Sasha J. Sanders
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Cultural Politics ◽  
Cultural Difference ◽  
Participatory Democracy ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Critical Inquiry ◽  
Culture Model ◽  
The Us ◽  
A Site ◽  
Circuit Of Culture

Florida is a site of critical inquiry and figures prominently in the US American imaginary. The Sunshine State sets the stage for broader conversations about cultural difference, climate change, and participatory democracy. Contributors to this special issue apply the canonical circuit of culture model to address the interrelated nature of culture and power. They provide methodologically thick, fleshy interpretive analyses that privilege experiential, experimental, and embodied approaches to take seriously Florida cultural politics, people, and popular forms.

Excavations at Satriano: A Deserted Medieval Settlement in Basilicata

1970 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
pp. 188-219
Author(s):  
David Whitehouse
Keyword(s):  
Considerable Importance ◽  
Alternative Route ◽  
The South ◽  
South West ◽  
Mountain Settlements

The remains of medieval Satriano occupy the acropolis of the Lucanian town, a hilltop site 16 km. south-west of Potenza (Pl. XXVII, a). Like the Lucanian settlement, the medieval site owed its existence to the commanding position of the acropolis, which not only dominates the surrounding countryside, but also overlooks an important route between Campania and Apulia. The valleys of the Tanagro and the Platano (which together join the Sele near Contursi) and of the Basento form a corridor through the mountains from west to east, linking Salerno, Potenza and Taranto, with an alternative route from Potenza to Gravina and Bari (Fig. 1). In addition, the Melandro valley, which joins the Platano west of Vietri, passes to the south of the foot of Satriano acropolis and gives access to Brienza, Grumento and the mountain settlements of north Calabria. Finally, leaving the Salerno-Taranto route at Potenza, an easy track led northwards to Lagopesole, Melfi and the Foggia plain. While Potenza was the pivot of this network of routes, Satriano was also well placed to benefit from contact with the wealthy regions of Campania and Apulia. In an area which produced little or no iron and possessed no deposits of copper or lead, such contact was of considerable importance.

Il turismo responsabile e il rapporto coi residenti

2014 ◽  
pp. 83-102
Author(s):  
Sergio Fadini
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
The South ◽  
Tourism Impact ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Tourism Destinations ◽  
A Site ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Responsible Tourism

The relationship between tourism and local residents is one of the most important problems of the tourist governance in a site; both in mature tourism destinations like European cultural towns, or in other sites, and where tourism is a novelty, so problems can be more. The concept of responsible tourism was born for helping local communities that bear tourism impact, using the values of sustainable development. So, inside it, this theme is very important, for who think that local communites must be more active in tourism; and for who think that it’s enough if they gain money from tourist activities. This paper analyzes the situation in Matera, a little town in the south of Italy, where tourism is becoming an important economic activity. Here there are daily problems between who plan and citizens. A planning concerning not only tourism, as the restricted traffic zone.

Cold War, Bottom-up: The 1956 Catholicos Election

2020 ◽  
pp. 126-166
Author(s):  
Tsolin Nalbantian
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
National Politics ◽  
Top Down ◽  
War Powers ◽  
Internal Politics ◽  
A Site ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
The U.S

Chapter 3 examines the 1956 Catholicos election in Lebanon.While the excitement and success of the repatriation movement was a public relations victory for the USSR supported by local Armenian institutions and assisted by Lebanese and Syrian governments, this election became a site of contestation by Cold War powers and by their state and non-state allies and proxies in the Middle East. This analysis allows us to look at the Cold War in the Middle East not from the top down, through the eyes of Washington or Moscow (or Lebanon’s or Egypt’s state authorities, for that matter) during flash points like the 1958 U.S. intervention in Lebanon or the U.S. and Soviet reactions to the Tripartite Aggression against Egypt in 1956. Rather, in that election, Armenians made use of Cold War tensions to designate a leader of the Armenian Church who was seen to suit the community’s interests. That story also expands our understanding of Lebanon’s Armenians: from refugees and outsiders in national politics to true participants, whose own internal politics, moreover, were of interest to Lebanon’s authorities and who by now felt free to invade and use public spaces beyond their own neighborhoods to make political statements.

From Ajanta to Sydenham: ‘Indian’ art at the Sydenham Palace

After 1851 ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Victoria Turner
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
The South ◽  
Crystal Palace ◽  
A Site ◽  
Victoria And Albert Museum ◽  
Great Exhibition ◽  
Indian Art

Discussions about the display of Indian art and material culture in the Victorian imperial metropolis have largely focused on the Great Exhibition of 1851 and its progeny, the South Kensington Museum (now the Victoria and Albert Museum). However, the Crystal Palace at Sydenham Hill was an important, but much overlooked, location of imperial and colonial display well into the twentieth century. This essay begins by examining the Sydenham Palace at a site of imperial spectacle from its opening in 1854 and well into the twentieth century. Relevant events included the African Exhibition of 1895, the opening of the Victoria Cross Gallery in the same year and the Colonial Exhibition of 1905, and the display of Major Robert Gill’s copies of the frescoes from the Buddhist rock-cut temples at Ajanta in India (until they were destroyed by fire in 1866). The crowning occasion in the Sydenham series of imperial events was the Festival of Empire in 1911 which celebrated the ascension of George V as ‘King-Emperor’. Taking the 1911 Festival as a case study, this essay explores the complex and often conflicting narratives of empire that were communicated through the courts and grounds at Sydenham.

Visual Art, Ethical Witnessing, and Resistance

2020 ◽  
pp. 117-140
Author(s):  
William A. Callahan
Keyword(s):  
Visual Art ◽  
International Crises ◽  
Authoritarian State ◽  
Political Aesthetics ◽  
The Social ◽  
Traditional Sense ◽  
Resistance To Power ◽  
Visual Construction ◽  
Ideological Resistance ◽  
A Site

The chapter engages with another popular approach to visual international politics: visuals as a site of resistance to power, both through producing critical artwork and by ethically witnessing international crises. To trace these issues, the chapter analyzes the work of Ai Weiwei, a world-famous artist-activist whose ethical witnessing creatively resists China’s authoritarian party-state. It shows how Ai’s art presents ideological resistance to state power, in both the traditional sense of liberal resistance to authoritarian state oppression and the hermeneutical sense, in which it is necessary to decode his work for its “meaning” as the social construction of the visual. The chapter then considers how Ai’s documentary film Human Flow (2017) provokes transnational resistance through its “visual construction of the social”—and of the global. It thus examines how visual art can serve as an ethical witness to resist reigning political regimes, and how it also can excite affective communities of sense to creatively resist reigning political aesthetics. Chapter 6 thus highlights the need to appreciate the dynamic tension that entangles cultural governance and resistance.

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