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