The Moral Mappings of South and North

ISBN-13: 9781474444415 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 216 str.

Peter Wagner

Opis

This book explores the possible meanings of the 'Global South' and assesses the advantages and disadvantages of adopting it for understanding the contemporary world. It casts a wide exploratory net, addressing historical transformations of world-interpretation and wider cultural-intellectual meanings.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Illustrations; Contributors; 1. Finding one's way in global social space, Peter Wagner; 2. Does the world have a spatio-political form? Preliminaries, Gerard Rosich; 3. The BRICS countries: time and space in moral narratives of development, Cláudio Costa Pinheiro; 4. Russia between East, West and North: Comments on the history of moral mapping, Maxim Khomyakov; 5. Digging for class: thoughts on the writing of a global history of social distinction, Jacob Dlamini; 6. North–South and the question of recognition: a constellation saturated with tensions, À. Lorena Fuster; 7.On spaces and experiences: modern displacements, interpretations and universal claims, Aurea Mota; 8. The South as exile, Nathalie Karagiannis.