Critical Theory After the Rise of the Global South

Rehbein, Boike

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“…It seems a consequence of seeing critical advocacy as the singular importance of EVAT. Although critical research with “its explicit interest in the abolition of social injustice” certainly can be transcendent and utopic (Bronner, 2002, p. 5), its concern with histories and power struggles of a localized context (Rehbein, 2015, pp. 79-101; Thompson, 2017, pp.…”

Section: Upon the Pathway Toward Ceam-cqi: Halfway There (Ceam)mentioning

confidence: 99%

A Nomenclature for Critical Autoethnography in the Arena of Disciplinary Atomization

Sughrua

2019

Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies

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This article proposes the nomenclatural shifting of “evocative” autoethnography (EVAT) from its apparent current position as a co-type of autoethnography to a lead or superordinate type of evocative-like autoethnography, with the suggested name of “critically-oriented evocative autoethnography as a methodology without methods and situated within critical qualitative inquiry” (CEAM-CQI). In this lead position, EVAT as CEAM-CQI could maintain a unified and mediated stance alongside its apparent nemesis, “analytical autoethnography” (ANAT), by way of “disciplinary atomization,” which at first seems undesirable but then proves beneficial if mediated by ego-less critique and polyvocality (Gergen), and as a result, EVAT, now CEAM-CQI, perhaps could more fully achieve its social justice agenda.

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Section: Upon the Pathway Toward Ceam-cqi: Halfway There (Ceam)mentioning

confidence: 99%

A Nomenclature for Critical Autoethnography in the Arena of Disciplinary Atomization

Sughrua

2019

Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies

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“…The lack of such a concept could explain why a typical stand-in for a concise definition of southern spaces is the mere enumeration of its supposed characteristics—“uncertain development, unorthodox economies, failed states, and nations fraught with corruption, poverty, and strife” (Comaroff & Comaroff, 2012, p. 113) or, alternatively, “inequality, administrative inefficiency, rural crises, political fragmentation, weak financial institutions, environmental problems and energy scarcity” (Rehbein, 2010, pp. 6–7).…”

Section: The Global South As Metageographymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Often, this accentuation of the specificity and uniqueness of a concrete context is performed in order to maximize emotional, and ultimately political, impact. This impact might be reduced in the context of grand theories that tend to presume some form of “totality” (Rehbein, 2010, pp. 4, 5), in which experiential authenticity may be diluted through its description in highly generalizable, abstract, distanced concepts.…”

Section: The Global South and Ir Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Differentiation Theory and the Global South as a Metageography of International Relations

Kleinschmidt

2018

Alternatives: Global, Local, Political

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In this article, I argue that while the Global South has replaced the Third World as the prevalent term for describing structural global inequalities in International Relations, little research is directed at its theoretical implications. I discuss the conceptual evolution of the term from the Third World narrative, interpreting the literature as an implicit rejection of myopic ontologies relying on economic, cultural, or political hierarchies. I then suggest connecting the terminology to the theory of functional differentiation. By avoiding forms inherited from classical social theory, the Global South can be conceptualized in a more productive way that is better attuned to contemporary theoretical discussions.

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“…Watson (: 2270) argues that in many urban agglomerations in the global South there exist ‘competing rationalities’ and norms, but there is reason to believe that similar counter‐rationalities can be found in the global North. Indeed, Comaroff and Comaroff (; see also Rehbein, ) argue that in many ways events in the global South have begun to presage events in the global North; to a Zulu living in Soweto under apartheid, Johannesburg — ‘the city’ — was revanchist long before the term ‘gentrification’ was coined. Subaltern urbanism is useful because it can be developed and refined in twenty‐first‐century metropolises, and cautiously applied to places in the global North that exist beyond current epistemological and methodological limits.…”

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Understanding Urban Processes in Flint, Michigan: Approaching ‘Subaltern Urbanism’ Inductively

Schindler

2013

Int J Urban Regional Res

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Ananya Roy introduces the concept 'subaltern urbanism' in her 2011 article 'Slumdog Cities: Rethinking Subaltern Urbanism'. She challenges researchers to move beyond existing epistemological and methodological limits, and offers four concepts which, taken together, serve as a useful starting point for understanding and representing subaltern urban space. In this article I argue that instead of a deductive approach that begins with an a priori identification of slums as subaltern urban space, an inductive approach of identifying subaltern urban space would expand the concept and show that subaltern urbanism exists in the global North. I present original research to show that Flint, Michigan, can be considered subaltern urban space. In the final section of the article I argue that this inductive approach to subaltern urbanism can foster comparative research across the North-South divide, and generate the transfer of knowledge from South to North.

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Critical Theory After the Rise of the Global South

Cited by 23 publications

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A Nomenclature for Critical Autoethnography in the Arena of Disciplinary Atomization

A Nomenclature for Critical Autoethnography in the Arena of Disciplinary Atomization

Differentiation Theory and the Global South as a Metageography of International Relations

Understanding Urban Processes in Flint, Michigan: Approaching ‘Subaltern Urbanism’ Inductively

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