Routledge Handbook of South-South Relations

The complexities of defining 'the South' and of determining what is unique about Southern-led and South-South relations, will be critically examined throughout the Handbook, which will offer both a state-of-the art review of key academic and policy debates on South-South relations, and lay out a research agenda for the next 5-10 years.

South-South cooperation is becoming ever more important to states, policy-makers and academics. Many Northern states, international agencies and NGOs are promoting South-South partnerships as a means of 'sharing the burden' in funding and undertaking development, assistance and protection activities, often in response to increased political and financial pressures on their own aid budgets. However, the mainstreaming of Southern-led initiatives by UN agencies and Northern states is paradoxical in many ways, especially because the development of a South-South cooperation paradigm was originally conceptualised as a necessary way to overcome the exploitative nature of North-South relations in the era of decolonisation.

This handbook critically explores diverse ways of defining 'the South' and of conceptualising and engaging with 'South-South relations.' Through 30 state-of-the-art reviews of key academic and policy debates, the handbook evaluates past, present and future opportunities and challenges of South-South cooperation, and lays out research agendas for the next 5-10 years. The book covers key models of cooperation (including internationalism, Pan-Arabism and Pan-Africanism), diverse modes of South-South connection, exchange and support (including South-South aid, transnational activism, and migration), and responses to displacement, violence and conflict (including Southern-led humanitarianism, peace-building and conflict resolution). In so doing, the handbook reflects on decolonial, postcolonial and anticolonial theories and methodologies, exploring urgent questions regarding the nature and implications of conducting research in and about the global South, and of applying a 'Southern lens' to a wide range of encounters, processes and dynamics across the global South and global North alike.

This handbook will be of great interest to scholars and post-graduate students in anthropology, area studies, cultural studies, development studies, history, geography, international relations, politics, postcolonial studies and sociology.

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Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh is Professor of Migration and Refugee Studies, Department of Geography, University College London, UK

Patricia Daley is Professor of the Human Geography of Africa at the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford, UK.

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The complexities of defining 'the South' and of determining what is unique about Southern-led and South-South relations, will be critically examined throughout the Handbook, which will offer both a state-of-the art review of key academic and policy debates on South-South relations, and lay out a research agenda for the next 5-10 years.

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1 Introduction: Conceptualising the Global South and South-South Encounters Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh and Patricia Daley Part One: Conceptualising and Studying South-South Relations2 Sociology through the 'South' Prism Sujata Patel 3 Postcolonialism and South-South Relations Dominic Davies and Elleke Boehmer4 'When Spider Webs Unite They Can Tie up a Lion': Anti-Racism, Decolonial Options and Theories from the South Amber Murrey5 Postcolonialism's After-Life in the Arab World: Toward a Post-Authoritarian Approach Sari Hanafi6 South-South Relations in the Academic World: The Case of Anthropology Gordon Mathews7 Geographies of South-South Relations and Regionalisation Processes in Latin America-Caribbean Thomas Muhr8 Creating Indigenous Discourse: History, Power, and Imperialism in Academia, Palestinian Case Janette Habashi Part Two: South-South Cooperation: Histories, Principles and Practices9 The Invention of the South and the Politics of South-South Solidarity Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni and Kenneth Tafira10 South-South Cooperation and Competition: A Critical History of the Principles and their Practice Urvashi Aneja11 Dreaming Revolution: Tricontinentalism, Anti-Imperialism and Third World Rebellion Isaac Saney 12 The Rise and Fall of Pan-Arabism Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou 13 Pan-Africanism: A History Ama BineyPart Three: South-South Cooperation: Re-viewing International Development14 Southern leaders, Northern followers? Who has 'Socialised' Whom in International Development Emma Mawdsley 15 South-South Approaches to International Environmental Negotiations: The Case of Climate ChangeEberhard Weber and Andreas Kopf16 Climate Change and the Future of Agriculture in the Caribbean.../Part Contents