In the countries of the global South, the challenges of fixed infrastructure and environment, the apparent universality of mobile hardware, software and network technologies and the rhetoric of the global knowledge economy have slowed or impoverished the development of appropriate theoretical...

Auf der Tagung "Räumliche Transformation: Prozesse, Konzepte und Forschungsdesigns" wurden neben vielen lokalen und regionalen Beispielen der Raumforschung auch einige Forschungsbeiträge zu Transformationsprozessen aus dem sogenannten Globalen Süden vorgestellt. Dieser kurze Beitrag versucht,...

Abstract Since the Cold War, the Global South has become the basis of China’s political, economic, and military interests, as well as the major theater of China’s power competition with the United States. It is thus necessary to recognize how developing states have responded to changes in...

Abstract The essay presents the dynamics of what we call “new globalization,” a second stage of the emergence of a new regime, which, as a result of capital’s need to continuously find new frontiers of accumulation, is extending to countries previously considered as residual peripheries....

While Russia's war of aggression on Ukraine is shaking the liberal international order, the Global South is using the occasion to demand overdue reforms and complaining about the neglect of its acute structural problems. Alternative organisations, such as BRICS, the Shanghai Cooperation...