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South-South cooperation is becoming ever more important to states,
policy-makers and academics. Many Northern states, international
agencies and NGOs are promoting South-South partnerships as a means
of 'sharing the burden' in funding and undertaking development,
assistance and protection activities, often in response to
increased political and financial pressures on their own aid
budgets. However, the mainstreaming of Southern-led initiatives by
UN agencies and Northern states is paradoxical in many ways,
especially because the development of a South-South cooperation
paradigm was originally conceptualised as a necessary way to
overcome the exploitative nature of North-South relations in the
era of decolonisation. This handbook critically explores diverse
ways of defining 'the South' and of conceptualising and engaging
with 'South-South relations.' Through 30 state-of-the-art reviews
of key academic and policy debates, the handbook evaluates past,
present and future opportunities and challenges of South-South
cooperation, and lays out research agendas for the next 5-10 years.
The book covers key models of cooperation (including
internationalism, Pan-Arabism and Pan-Africanism), diverse modes of
South-South connection, exchange and support (including South-South
aid, transnational activism, and migration), and responses to
displacement, violence and conflict (including Southern-led
humanitarianism, peace-building and conflict resolution). In so
doing, the handbook reflects on decolonial, postcolonial and
anticolonial theories and methodologies, exploring urgent questions
regarding the nature and implications of conducting research in and
about the global South, and of applying a 'Southern lens' to a wide
range of encounters, processes and dynamics across the global South
and global North alike. This handbook will be of great interest to
scholars and post-graduate students in anthropology, area studies,
cultural studies, development studies, history, geography,
international relations, politics, postcolonial studies and
sociology.
This is a book about teaching 'disobedient pedagogies' from the
heart of empire. The authors show how educators, activists and
students are cultivating anti-racist decolonial practices, leading
with a radical call to eradicate development studies, and
counterbalancing this with new projects to decolonize development,
particularly in African geographies. Being intentionally
disobedient in the classroom is central to decolonizing development
studies. The authors ask: What does it mean to study international
development today? Whose knowledge and perspectives inform
international development policy and programming? Building on the
works of other decolonial trailblazers, the authors show how
colonial legacies continue to shape the ways in which land,
wellbeing, progress and development are conceived of and practiced.
How do we, through our classroom and activist practices, work
collaboratively to create the radical imaginaries and practical
scaffolding we need for decolonizing development?
Spanning the period from the cold war to the 'war on terror',
examines the political economy dynamics of security and insecurity
on the continent, as well as its implications for political
actions. More than any other part of the globe, Africa has become
associated with conflict, insecurity and human rights atrocities.
In the popular imagination and the media, overpopulation,
environmental degradation and ethnic hatred dominate accounts of
African violence, while in academic and policy-making circles,
conflict and insecurity have also come to occupy centre stage, with
resource-hungry warlords and notions of 'greed' and 'grievance'
playing key explanatory roles. Since the attacks of 9/11, there has
also been mounting concern that the continent's so-called
'ungoverned spaces' will provide safe havens for terrorists intent
on destroying Western civilization. The Review of African Political
Economy has engaged extensively with issues of conflict and
security, both analysing on-going conflicts and often challenging
predominant modes of explanation and interpretation. This Review of
African Political Economy Reader provides a timely, comprehensive
and critical contribution to contemporary debates about conflict
and security on the continent. The first section, covers some of
the continent's main post-Cold War conflicts and demonstrates their
global connections. The articles also discuss the so-called
'resource curse', as well as the global arms trade, and reveal the
complexities of the relationship between the economic and the
political. The second section focuses on security as part of
post-Cold War global governance, and discusses the effects of
liberal peace-building as well as the link between development
assistance and the 'war on terror'. The final section examines life
as it continues in conditions of war and shows how insecurity
reconfigures urban space, transforms social order, identities and
authority. Rita Abrahamsen is Professor in the Graduate School of
Publicand International Affairs, University of Ottawa, Canada
Published in association with ROAPE ROAPE African Readers Series
Editors: Tunde Zack-Williams & Ray Bush
South-South cooperation is becoming ever more important to states,
policy-makers and academics. Many Northern states, international
agencies and NGOs are promoting South-South partnerships as a means
of 'sharing the burden' in funding and undertaking development,
assistance and protection activities, often in response to
increased political and financial pressures on their own aid
budgets. However, the mainstreaming of Southern-led initiatives by
UN agencies and Northern states is paradoxical in many ways,
especially because the development of a South-South cooperation
paradigm was originally conceptualised as a necessary way to
overcome the exploitative nature of North-South relations in the
era of decolonisation. This handbook critically explores diverse
ways of defining 'the South' and of conceptualising and engaging
with 'South-South relations.' Through 30 state-of-the-art reviews
of key academic and policy debates, the handbook evaluates past,
present and future opportunities and challenges of South-South
cooperation, and lays out research agendas for the next 5-10 years.
The book covers key models of cooperation (including
internationalism, Pan-Arabism and Pan-Africanism), diverse modes of
South-South connection, exchange and support (including South-South
aid, transnational activism, and migration), and responses to
displacement, violence and conflict (including Southern-led
humanitarianism, peace-building and conflict resolution). In so
doing, the handbook reflects on decolonial, postcolonial and
anticolonial theories and methodologies, exploring urgent questions
regarding the nature and implications of conducting research in and
about the global South, and of applying a 'Southern lens' to a wide
range of encounters, processes and dynamics across the global South
and global North alike. This handbook will be of great interest to
scholars and post-graduate students in anthropology, area studies,
cultural studies, development studies, history, geography,
international relations, politics, postcolonial studies and
sociology.
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