Resources

Yes. If we were conducting this interview in Kayardild and you just told me, 'Move the mic a little closer,' or something, a Kayardild instruction would have translated as something like, 'Move the mic slightly to the south,' even if it was half an inch. And even though we're sitting in a studio that's dark, we can't see th […]

Native South challenges scholars of southern history to expand their conception of the field to include more than the black and white post-colonial south that colors much of the historical literature of the region. The journal focuses on the investigation of Southeastern Indian history with the goals of encouraging further study and exposing the influences o […]

This document, produced for the Ford Foundation, looks into some of the issues pertaining to the relocation of the central functions of international organisations from the global north to the global south. This is a “how to” type of manual built from surveys of organisations which have gone through the relocation process and is intended to be useful for an […]

This latest edition to the ISA handbook series actively engages with the many traditions of sociology in the world. Twenty-nine chapters from prominent international contributors discuss, challenge and re-conceptualise the global discipline of sociology; evaluating the diversities within and between sociological traditions of many regions and nation-states. […]

China and 49 African countries have agreed on a three-year action plan for establishing strategic partnerships in science and technology as well as higher education to promote knowledge-based sustainable development. The plan was announced earlier this month at the Fourth Ministerial Conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in Sharm El Sheikh in E […]

This article proposes an 'epistemology of the south' which opposes an ecology of knowledges to the 'abyssal thinking' characteristic of Western modernity […]

An application of the southern African value of Ubuntu to the alternative concept of market developed for open source software […]

Deals with the question of a how an African academic relates to the North, distinguishing between the Pan-Africanists, the Northernists, and the globalists. Considers how to establish two-way dialogue between north and south. […]

A new multilateralism has encouraged new south-south networks that develop alternative frameworks for understanding cultural history. […]

Vocabulary collected by Bernadette Hice of words particular to the experience of living in the deep South […]