Friday, September 10, 2021

Some Global South Affairs

We hope that you have enjoyed the summer (generically-speaking since "summer" refers really to those in the North) and that you are coping well enough with the continued restrictions caused by the rise of the Delta variant of covid 19. We are still looking forward to holding the Nashville conference in person so let us keep our fingers crossed. As we all continue to focus in various ways on defining the Global South and analyzing all the many foreign policy concerns in which the South is implicated, here are some bits of news:

A REMINDER: Although we do not normally permit comments on this information-oriented blog, if you have any comments, concerns, or questions, please do not hesitate to email us. 

On September 9, 2021, the launch of a special edition of Third World Quarterly took place.

Please check TWQ for details of this publication.


THE ‘GLOBAL SOUTH’ IN THE STUDY OF WORLD POLITICS

Event Type
Online Launch

Location/Date
Online, 07.09.2021

Organiser

This online launch event is co-hosted by Articulação Sul, Sao Paulo, and the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), Bonn.



The Special Issue The ‘Global South’ in the study of world politics is published by Third World Quarterly in September 2021. Edited by Sebastian Haug, Jacqueline Braveboy-Wagner and Günther Maihold, it focuses on the increasing popularity of the ‘Global South’ as a meta category and asks whether and how it can be put to analytical use for research on world politics.

In this online launch event, editors and authors present their contributions and invite participants to discuss the main arguments put forward across the pages of the Special Issue.

Special Issue papers (see below) include contributions by Adriana Abdenur, Tobias Berger, Manuela Boatcă, Andrew Cooper, Nadine Godehardt, Sebastian Haug, Florian Koch, Paul Kohlenberg, Supriya Roychoudhury, Siddarth Tripathi and Laura Trajber Waisbich.

For queries, please get in touch with sebastian.haug@die-gdi.de or @SebHaug.

Speakers

Sebastian HaugJacqueline Braveboy-Wagner and Günther Maihold
The ‘Global South’ in the study of world politics: examining a meta category

Andrew Cooper
China, India and the pattern of G20/BRICS engagement: differentiated ambivalence between ‘rising’ power status and solidarity with the Global South

Paul Kohlenberg and Nadine Godehardt
Locating the ‘South’ in China’s connectivity politics

Manuela Boatcă
Unequal institutions in the longue durée: citizenship through a Southern lens

Tobias Berger
The ‘Global South’ as a relational category: global hierarchies in the production of law and legal pluralism

Sebastian Haug
A Thirdspace approach to the ‘Global South’: insights from the margins of a popular category

Siddharth Tripathi
International Relations and the ‘Global South’: From Epistemic Hierarchies to Dialogic Encounters

Florian Koch
Cities as transnational climate change actors: applying a Global South perspective

Adriana Abdenur
Climate and Security: UN agenda-setting and the ‘Global South’

Laura Trajber WaisbichSupriya Roychoudhury and Sebastian Haug
Beyond the single story: ‘Global South’ polyphonies

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Call for Papers Special Issue “Global South and its perspectives: expanding the frontiers of International Relations”

Monções, Journal of International Relations of the Federal University of Grande Dourados (UFGD) (ISSN 23168323) invites submissions to the special issue "Global South and its perspectives: expanding the frontiers of International Relations”. The deadline for submissions is December 17th, 2021. 

https://ojs.ufgd.edu.br/index.php/moncoes/announcement/view/274 [ojs.ufgd.edu.br]


Monday, June 14, 2021

Catching up!

 Dear Members:

It is hard to believe that we have not updated you for several months. Unfortunately, the uncertainties of the last year with its global health challenges (including concentrated teaching) caught up with us. However, we know that you have been receiving information by other methods, in particular our newsletter. In the future, we will be updating the blog more regularly as we did in the past. 

1. The most important event for us this year was, of course, our participation in the annual ISA meeting (Las Vegas, online). The caucus sponsored/co-sponsored a variety of panels, including:

A record of three thematic panels entitled Sub-State Actors or State-Like Entities : Interrogating Governance in

Global South Contexts

Evolutionary Advances in Latin American Regionalism: From Local to Global 

and South-South Security Cooperation and the (Re-)Making of World Politics

Two panels in cooperation with other sections:

Theorizing from the South: Global South Contributions to World Order Conceptions (with Theory Section)

International Relations Beyond Borders and Approaches: From state-centric to glocal IR (with Theory and Historical International Relations sections) 

Insights from/for the Global South (with IPE and Global Development)

Three roundtables:

Doing 'Diversity' Work? A Roundtable with the ISA Committee on Representation and Diversity, the Women's Caucus, and the LGBTQA Caucus

Teaching IR with a Global South Perspective, with International Education and Active Learning in International Affairs sections)

and Global South IR: Assessing North-South and South-South Encounters, sponsored by the Committee on Status of Engagement with the Global South, and ISA. 

In addition, the Caucus held its Distinguished Scholar Panel, honoring Prof. Mohamed Mahmoud Ould  Mohamedou of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. Among participants were Dêlidji Eric Degila (ENA-Benin), Jacqueline Braveboy-Wagner (CUNY), Consuelo Davila (National Autonomous University of Mexico), Robert Vitalis (University of Pennsylvania), Bahgat Korany (AUC, Egypt), Nadia Marzouki (EUI), Bertrand Badie (Graduate Institute, Geneva), Funmi Olonisakin (King's College, UK) and Karim Bitar (IRIS, Paris)

Unfortunately, we were unable to hold the usual breakfast or evening activities that we look forward to. In addition, the Business Meeting was postponed until after the convention. We look forward to holding ISA in person in 2022, even as we are aware that many of our members, coming from the Global South, may still not be able to attend. Vaccine inequality has been a topic that many of us have been stressing in our academic and public presentations and we are happy to see that the developed nations are finally preparing to release/donate more vaccines to the less fortunate countries.

2. In addition to ISA, the caucus was represented by a few of its members at the annual Caribbean Studies Association meeting, scheduled for Guyana (but online), held May 31 to June 5. Caucus member Kristina Hinds served as program chair for the conference whose theme was "Identity, Politics, Industry, Ecology, and the Intelligent Economy in Caribbean Societies." A welcome ceremony and performance featured a mixed genre mixed media presentation highlighting the evolution of Guyanese identity and cultural agency through poetry, music, and dance. Via more than 100 panels, participants offered interdisciplinary presentations on the environment, health, politics, political economy, international relations, race, ethnicity and gender, and a cross-section of art, culture and literature issues. Several panels focused on environment, including climate resilience as well as the link between Guyana's recent oil exploitation and obligations under the Paris Accord. Female Caribbean leadership was featured at a plenary including the newly appointed first female head of the Caribbean Community integration organization (Dr. Carla Barnett) as well as the US ambassador to Guyana, and the first female appointee as Vice Chancellor of an English-speaking Caribbean university (Prof. Paloma Mohamed, University of Guyana).

Of particular interest to the caucus, a first-evening plenary  included five former presidents including former Caucus Chair Jacqueline Braveboy-Wagner, who spoke to the theme "Reflecting on the Future of the CSA Through the Lenses of the Past." Also of interest to the caucus was a panel composed of caucus members from the Caribbean, Diana Cassells (Jamaica/US), Betty Sedoc-Dahlberg (Suriname)  and J. Braveboy-Wagner (US/Trinidad and Tobago) who discussed Cuban, US and China relations with the region under the theme "New Thinking, New Issues in Caribbean International Relations."  Anyone interested in learning more about the conference can link to the CSA website or the related blog, https://www.globalonefrontier.org/blog/a-view-of-the-caribbean-studies-association-45-charting-new-paths-part-1

3. The deadline for submitting proposals for ISA-Nashville was June 1 and judging from the last few days of activity, the caucus should be receiving many proposals. Jason Strakes continues to serve as the caucus's program chair this year. As usual, we will update the membership with conference details in due course. 

Please continue to send information on conferences and other pertinent matters here: blog


Tuesday, January 19, 2021

 A Very Happy (Belated) New Year to All Our Members.

Happy Martin Luther King Day (for members in the US). 


We hope that everyone is safe during this pandemic and we trust that every country will receive the new vaccines quickly and in the spirit of equality. Global health is important for all.

On this day (January 18) and during this important week in the United States, in hopes of a global recommitment to multilateralism and diversity,  please see:

The Youtube video of the Caucus' seminar on multilateralism held in Geneva December 7 at: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwdkDbupEM4&feature=youtu.be

and

J. Braveboy-Wagner's podcast for the Ralph Bunche Center for International Studies at the Graduate School of the City University of New York: 

 https://soundcloud.com/user-665186326/the-past-and-future-of-the-global-south

 

We will be adding more links to our members' activities in this area as we go along. Please send your information to the blog keeper at: jbraveboy-wagner@gc.cuny.edu


Best to all,

The GSCIS Team