Raewyn Connell’s book Southern Theory has attracted a great deal of attention in the field of sociology. As an example of the use of ‘South’ within a particular discipline of knowledge, it is worth reflecting on the responses. It has won awards and been the subject of many conference sessions, but it has also engendered [...]
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Thoughts on ‘Siútico’ by Oscar Contardo
Chile has a lively publishing industry that produces serious non-fiction on cultural themes, often Latin American, particularly Chilean. Given the issues of language and subject, these works are rarely read outside Latin America. The leading art theorist Ticio Escobar, for instance, is hardly translated into English at all. image Sometimes there are books that are [...]
Epistemologies of the South – Boaventura Sousa Santos and Maria Paula Meneses
clip_image001 From the Portuguese social theorist Boaventura Sousa Santos and Maria Paula Meneses comes Epistemologies of the South. This book begins with a critique of dominant epistemologies which are seen to decontextualise knowledge from its cultural and political contexts. As an alternative, it proposes an ‘epistemology of the South’ which consists of interventions that engage [...]
Ex Plus Ultra post-colonialism
From the University of Sydney comes a new postgraduate journal Ex Plus Ultra, which means ‘nothing further beyond’. The journal sets out to question the categories of ‘colonial and ‘post-colonial’: There was no cataclysmic rupture heralding the arrival of the ‘post-colonial’ nor was the advent of colonialism defined, uncontested or in some cases even as [...]
Dark Writing: Geography, Performance, Design by Paul Carter
image DARK WRITING: GEOGRAPHY, PERFORMANCE, DESIGN Paul Carter’s new book is a protest against the dumbing down of imaginative thinking. It champions a common reader who resists being patronised, and who is hungry for a deeper understanding of the places we live in – how they came into being, and how, if their creative origins [...]
Journal of Alternative Perspectives in the Social Sciences
JAPSS Press, a branch of the Journal of Alternative Perspectives in the Social Sciences is calling for chapter proposals for an Edited Volume dealing with Regionalism and Development in the Asia Pacific Region. Some possible topics are the following: – South to South Cooperation – International Norms and Regionalism in the Asia Pacific Region – [...]
Summer Exercises
image Ross Gibson’s new publication The Summer Exercises draws from an archive of police photography to reflect on the way history was created in post-war Sydney.
