Transnational Cinema in the Global South
By Parichay Patra
This essay analyzes and explains the idea of the “transnational” in cinema studies from the perspective of the Global South. Global art cinema, world…
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Critical Pedagogy
By Elena Quiñones
Theories of critical pedagogy foreground the transformative power of education through consciousness-raising approaches to teaching. Among different approaches to critical pedagogy, there tends to…
Globalectics (Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o)
By Arnav Adhikari
To read “globalectically,” as the Kenyan writer, scholar, and activist Ngugi wa Thiong’o has urged, is to engage a text “with the eyes of the…
Solidarity
By Poorvi Bellur
Within the extensive scholarship on decolonization across the Global South, a great deal of attention has been paid to the high tide of transnational…
Creolization
By Najnin Islam
Creolization offers a conceptual framework for understanding the ways in which different racialized groups interact to give rise to new social, cultural, and racial…
BRICS
By Sitinga Kachipande
The acronym BRICS comprises the nations of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa which represent the five major emerging economies; that is, the…
Coolitude
By Christopher L. Ballengee
The concept of “coolitude” provides a creative and discursive framework for remembering and comprehending the dislocation and transformation expressed in the literature, art, music,…
Extractivism and Extractivismo
By Thea Riofrancos
Extractivism is a capacious concept. It circulates among academics and activists, across the Global South and North. It admits of granular, internal differentiations such…
Moral Economy
By Jaime Moreno-Tejada
Moral economies are systems of exchange based on customary practice, which is assumed to be fair and equitable in relation to modern economic behavior.…
The Communist University for Toilers of the East (KUTV)
By Rossen Djagalov
The following account of the Moscow-based Communist University for Toilers of the East in Moscow (1921-1938) seeks to counter the prevailing tendency among scholars…
The First Conference of the Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians (EATWOT) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 1976
By Stephen R. Di Trolio Coakley
The first conference of the Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians (EATWOT) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in 1976, was a decisive catalyst for…
Representing Dictatorship in the Global South
By Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra
As the history of fascism in the twentieth century makes clear, authoritarianism and dictatorship are by no means problems specific to the Global South.…
Indenture
By Nienke Boer
Indenture — the practice of transporting workers to perform labor in a different part of the world for a fixed period of time in…
Booms in Literatures of the Global South
By Roanne Kantor
“Boom” is a term used to describe the sudden growth in both popularity and perceived literary quality of writing from a particular region within…
The Global War on Drugs
By Fernando Esquivel-Suárez
The U.S.-led global War on Drugs (WoD) refers to the conflict and violence produced by the enforcement of prohibitionist policies on the manufacture, distribution,…
Latin American Liberation Theology
By Éric Morales-Franceschini
“Liberation theology” was the name given to a species of theology that emerged in late 1960s and early 1970s Latin America. It called for a…
Latin American Dependency Theory
By Steven Schmidt
Latin American dependency theory is a strand of political-economic thought that developed out of the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean…
Anticolonialism
By J. Daniel Elam
Anticolonialism in the twentieth and twenty-first century refers to two interconnected concepts: a historical event and a critical analytic. As a historical event, anticolonialism…
Afro-Asian Third-Worldism into Global South: The Case of Lotus Journal
By Hala Halim
If the received critical wisdom dates the birth of postcolonial theory to 1978 with the publication in New York of Edward Said’s Orientalism, it…
Fredric Jameson and the Controversy over “Third-World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism”
By Robert T. Tally, Jr.
In 1986, the American literary critic and theorist Fredric Jameson published an essay in the journal Social Text titled “Third-World Literature in the Era…
Anthropocene
By Stacey Balkan
Coastal subsidence, warming ocean temperatures, and rising sea levels have left cities like Miami and Mumbai particularly vulnerable as increased cyclonic activity threatens already…
Prefigurative Politics
By Louisiana Lightsey
The problem of how to achieve radical democratic goals within a system that is not conducive to radical democratic principles continues to challenge activists…
Julius Nyerere
By Derek Gideon
Julius Kambarage Nyerere (1922-1999) was Tanganyika’s–later Tanzania–charismatic president from 1961 to 1985, a major theorist of African Socialism, and a Pan-Africanist supporter of African…
Belgrade, The 1961 Non-Aligned Conference
By Ivana Ancic
The 1961 Non-Aligned Conference in Belgrade was the first official summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, orchestrated by three key figures: Josip Broz Tito, the…
Truth Commissions
By Ivana Ancic
Truth commissions are temporary bodies tasked by governmental or international agencies to investigate specific periods of human rights abuses and violations of international human…
Biopolitics and Globalization
By Louisiana Lightsey
Biopolitics is a critical term used with some variation across the fields of political theory, international relations, cultural studies, critical sociology, and globalization studies.…
Disposability
By Victoria Oana Lupascu
The concept of disposability is intimately connected to the notions of waste and consumption. Gavin Lucas engages with the notion of a “throw away” society developed…
Walter Rodney
By Derek Gideon
Historian and labor activist Walter Rodney (1942-1980) is a figure of two major internationalist discourses which operated in the anticolonial movements of the 1960s…
Differentiated Citizenship
By Astrid Lorena Ochoa Campo
Differentiated Citizenship is defined as “the granting of special group-based legal or constitutional rights to national minorities and ethnic groups” (Mintz, Tossutti and Dunn…
Minor Transnationalism
By Sarah Rabke
‘Minor Transnationalism’ offers us a conceptual framework for aggregating numerous movements, groups, and discourses that, whether local, regional, or multinational in organizational structure, are…
Privatized Military Industry
By Mathilda Shepard
Private military force has played a central role in the long history of human warfare. From the mercenaries of ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome,…
Petrocultures
By Karina Baptista
Environmental crisis, which is coterminous with late capitalism in the 20th and 21st centuries, has unequivocally revealed humanity’s historical locus as that of petromodernity;…
Network Power
By Mathilda Shepard
Network Power refers to the power exercised by some social actors over others via rules of inclusion and coordination within networks. Although the idea…