Routledge Handbook of South-South Relations

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Cover Half Title Praise Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents List of illustrations Figures Tables Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Notes on contributors Chapter 1: Introduction: conceptualising the global South and South–South encounters Aims and structure of the handbook Part I: Conceptualising and studying South–South relations Part II: South–South cooperation: histories, principles and practices Part III: South–South cooperation: reviewing international development Part IV: South–South cooperation in displacement, security and peace Part V: South–South connections Concluding thoughts Notes Bibliography PART I: Conceptualising and studying South–South relations Chapter 2: Sociology through the ‘South’ prism Eurocentrism, geopolitics and modernity Colonialism, extroversion/academic dependency Indigenous/endogenous social sciences Toward a conclusion Notes References Chapter 3: Postcolonialism and South–South relations Introduction Postcolonial relations in the South Conclusion Notes Bibliography Chapter 4: ‘When spider webs unite they can tie up a lion’: anti-racism, decolonial options and theories from the South Introduction Outline of arguments ‘Decolonising knowledge’ across the South(s) and North(s) Southern theory Beyond inclusionism: Southern thought, anti-racism and radical friendship Notes References Chapter 5: Postcolonialism’s after-life in the Arab world: toward a post-authoritarian approach Introduction The postcolonial debate Anti-imperialist and conspiratorial scholars Anti-Western scholars Toward a post-authoritarian approach Conclusion Notes References Chapter 6: South–South relations in the academic world: the case of anthropology Introduction The emergence of world anthropology The workings of the WCAA The institutional resurgence of ‘West is Best’ in anthropology Conclusion: the future of North–South and South–South relations in anthropology Notes References Chapter 7: Geographies of South–South relations and regionalisation processes in Latin America-Caribbean Introduction Competing approaches to Latin America-Caribbean regionalisation and South–South relations A socio-spatial approach to the study of regionalisation and South–South relations The ZEP: producing an SSC space Conclusion Notes References Chapter 8: Creating indigenous discourse: history, power and imperialism in academia, Palestinian case Introduction A review of the literature and statement of the problem Oppression, indigenous consciousness, and academic discourse Historical context of creating indigenous discourse Remains of indigenous discourse and neocolonialism: the case of Palestine The struggles of indigenous scholars Conclusion Notes References PART II: South–South cooperation: histories, principles and practices Chapter 9: The invention of the global South and the politics of South–South solidarity Introduction The invention of the global South The entrapment of the global South Resistance, solidarity and self-invention The Haitian Revolution Pan-Africanism The Bandung spirit The demand for New International Economic Order Neo-Third Worldism/dewesternization Conclusion Note References Chapter 10: South–South cooperation and competition: a critical history of the principles and their practice Introduction Historical trajectories Contemporary resurgence: SSC for mutual economic growth Divergence between principles and practice of SSC Conclusion: the performative function of SSC References Chapter 11: Dreaming revolution: tricontinentalism, anti-imperialism and Third World rebellion Introduction The Third World Project: from October to Bandung to NAM Havana 1966: the tricontinental Conference Tricontinentalism in practice End of Tricontinentalism? Conclusion: the Tricontinental’s legacy References Chapter 12: The rise and fall of pan-Arabism Introduction Genesis Links Aftermath References Chapter 13: Pan-Africanism: a history Introduction: the birth of pan-Africanism Early pan-Africanists and factors in the growth of pan-Africanism 20th-century developments of pan-Africanism The Pan-African Congresses Pan-Africanism redefined in different contexts in Africa and in the diaspora New concepts of global African unity Recent developments in the Pan-African Movement (PAM) Conclusion References PART III: South–South cooperation: reviewing international development Chapter 14: Southern leaders, Northern followers? Who has ‘socialised’ whom in international development? Introduction Early expectations of socialising Southern partners Conclusions Notes References Chapter 15: South–South approaches to international environmental negotiations: the case of climate change Introduction Climate change and development The role of the South in negotiations of the environment and climate change Climate change negotiations and SSC Conclusion Notes References Chapter 16: Climate change and the future of agriculture in the Caribbean: prospects for South–South cooperation Introduction Caribbean agriculture under a changing climate Regional policy responses and the climate change agenda Prospects for advancing SSC on agriculture and climate change Concluding remarks Notes References Chapter 17: South–South relations in African agriculture: hybrid modalities of cooperation and development perspectives from Brazil and China Introduction South–South cooperation beyond aid Hybrid cooperation relations State–business intersections Contested models of agricultural development Encounters and unforeseen developments Conclusion Notes References PART IV: South–South cooperation in displacement, security and peace Chapter 18: Southern-led responses to displacement: modes of South–South cooperation? Introduction Situating Southern-led responses to displacement State-led Southern responses to displacement: resisting ‘the humanitarian’? Differential modes of SSC in disasters and conflict/displacement Parallel systems, cooperation and cooptation Conclusion Notes References Chapter 19: China, ‘state-centric’ humanitarianism, and the International Committee of the Red Cross: a historical background Introduction: China and the fundamental humanitarianprinciple of ‘independence’ Philanthropy during early 20th-century China The founding of the Red Cross Society of China The Chinese Red Cross as an international actor A new statism comes to China The ICRC comes to China Conclusion: toward a more universal ‘universalism’ Notes References Chapter 20: South–South cooperation in international organisations: its conceptualisation and implementation within UNDP and UNHCR Introduction SSC in the UN system: history, concept and modality SSC in the UN Development Agency SSC in the UN Refugee Agency Challenges of implementing South–South initiatives in UNHCR Implications and discussion Ways forward Notes References Chapter 21: Cooperation on refugees in Latin America and the Caribbean: the ‘Cartagena process’ and South–South approaches Introduction Cartagena framework: genesis and process Cartagena process: a model for cooperation in the global South? Complexities in the analysis Conclusions Notes References Chapter 22: The ‘need to be there’: North–South encounters and imaginations in the humanitarian economy Introduction North–South humanitarian encounters Humanitarian imaginations The Southist ‘need to be there’ Notes References Chapter 23: Security cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean: threats, institutions and challenges Introduction Situating Latin America and the Caribbean Security cooperation for what? Security discourses and threats in Latin America and the Caribbean Security cooperation: institutions, legitimacy and deficits Conclusion and the way forward Notes References Chapter 24: Toward South–South peace-building Introduction The arguments for South–South peace-making The neoliberal peace South–South interventions: the case of intra-Africa cooperation for peace Regional experiences of peace-making Burundi peace negotiations: a South–South initiative ECOWAS and peace-making in West Africa South–South states and the issue of impunity Conclusion Notes Bibliography PART V: South–South connections Chapter 25: Struggles for gender justice: regional networks and feminist experiences of South–South collaborations Introduction The growth of regional feminist networks in the global South Strategies and sites: South–South collaborations and contestations Looking into the future: challenges and possibilities Conclusion Notes References Chapter 26: A political economy analysis of South–South youth relations in Africa: drivers and future research questions Introduction Economic factors Human capital factors Socio-political factors Informing the future research agenda on South–South youth relations Conclusion References Chapter 27: South–South education relations Introduction Conceptual clarifications Literature review Case studies of South–South education relations Conclusion Notes Chapter 28: South–South cooperation through education? The example of China with/in Africa Introduction Emergent spatialities of international higher education International education: a postcolonial analysis China with/in Africa Conclusions Notes References Chapter 29: South–South migration and diasporas Introduction Calibrating South–South migration Conclusion Note References Chapter 30: South–South medical tourism Introduction Biomedicine and the limits of conventional aid practices Medical tourism Transnational care flows Conclusion Notes References Chapter 31: Art connections: South–South transnational flow(s) Introduction The state of the art of the South: Third World art and the global South Southern art world (and Northern resonances): a counter flow South-to-South exchanges and collaborative spaces Re-naming the South Notes References Index