3442 - South-South Flows in Global Context

Session Submission Type: Paper Session 100min

Description

Analyses of globalization have tended to focus on North-South flows of capital, labor, and finance, and the role of multinational corporations and international institutions based on the North in directing and/or facilitating global flows. However, more recent scholarship has noted the rise of South-South engagements, and the commercial and infrastructural ventures of countries and metropoles such as China, Dubai, Singapore, India, Brazil, and South Africa. How should we characterize South-South flows that complicate the model of core-periphery dynamics, yet alarmingly resemble its model of raw commodity and finished goods exchange? What political, economic and social ramifications shall we draw from these developments? To what degree are they shaped by the legacies of anti-colonial movements and struggle? Are anti-imperialist politics and ideologies relevant for making sense of these shifts in global capitalism? This panel invites papers that deal with any aspect of the history, theory, practice and implications of South-South flows and relations.

Sub Unit

• Section on Political Economy of the World-System / South-South Flows in Global Context

Session Organizers

• Jennifer L. Bair, University of Virginia

• Manjusha S. Nair, George Mason University

Presider

• Kevan Harris, University of California-Los Angeles

Individual Presentations

• A Charter for Economic Decolonization: Mexico, the Third World, and the Contradictions of South-South Development Cooperation - Christy Thornton, Johns Hopkins University

• Counterhegemonic Human Rights and Transformative Peacebuilding amid Capitalism’s Expulsions - Jackie Smith, University of Pittsburgh

• Global corporate hierarchy in 22,000 cities: China vs. the world - Ben Leffel, University of California Irvine

• Reexamining China and South-South Relations: Chinese State-Backed and Flexible Private Capitals in the Philippines - Alvin Camba, Johns Hopkins University

• Transparent Capital: Indian Textiles, Global Standards, and the Ethiopian State - Manjusha S. Nair, George Mason University