EP45.en Global South(s)?! - Reflections on self-identification and colonial legacies

Disclaimer: Diese Folge ist auf Englisch. Eine deutsche
Synchronisation wird in einigen Wochen folgen.


The term "Global South" has been widely established as a
preferable alternative to previous terms such as "Third World" or
"underdeveloped countries" in academia, activism and beyond.
However, can this term truly fulfill its aspirations to describe
global inequalities without reproducing existing power
structures? In this special episode hosted by our friends from
W&F, we aim to tackle this term and explore both its
shortcomings and its potential to describe power dynamics in
today’s globalized world.


Together with our hosts, David Scheuing and Benno Fladvad, we are
honored to hear from three scholars who critically examine this
term from both their personal and professional perspectives.
Shobana Shankar is a professor of history at Stony Brook
University in New York, with extensive experience studying
colonial and postcolonial politics. She is joined by Laura
Gutierrez Escobar, an assistant professor at the Institute of
Bioethics at Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia, who has a
special research interest in socio-environmental conflicts,
including carbon markets and REDD+ programs in the Colombian
Amazon. Our third guest is Nathalia Hernández-Vidal, an assistant
professor of sociology at the University of Oregon, who studies
various issues such as environmental justice, feminist and
Indigenous science and technology studies (STS), as well as
coloniality and decolonization.





Cooperation Partner


W&F Wissenschaft und Frieden


https://wissenschaft-und-frieden.de/





Guests


Nathalia Hernández-Vidal


https://cas.uoregon.edu/directory/sociology/all/NHER


Laura Gutierrez Escobar


https://enjust.net/de/member/laura-gutierrez-escobar/


Shobana Shankar


https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/history/people/_faculty/shankar