Finding one's way in global social space / Peter Wagner -- Does the world have a spatio-political form? preliminaries / Gerard Rosich -- The BRICS countries: time and space in moral narratives of development / Cláudio Costa Pinheiro -- Russia between east, west and north: comments on the history of moral mapping / Maxim Khomyakov -- Digging for class: thoughts on the writing of a global history of social distinction / Jacob Dlamini -- North-south and the question of recognition: a constellation saturated with tensions / Á. Lorena Fuster -- On spaces and experiences: modern displacements, interpretations and universal claims / Aurea Mota -- The south as exile / Nathalie Karagiannis.
Summary:
The term 'Global South' marks a new attempt a providing order and meaning in the current global political constellation, replacing the term 'Third World'. But the term 'Global South' is fraught with many ambiguities. This book explores the possible meanings of this new distinction and assesses the advantages and disadvantages of adopting it for understanding the contemporary world. It casts a wide exploratory net, looking at how the way that we interpret the world has changed over time.
