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Innovative technologies for digital design and manufacture have spread with globalization, providing improved working tools and processes for architecture. These technologies open up different professional opportunities, forging alternative relations with society, especially for new generations and emerging countries. This article reflects on novel collaborative experiences between Ibero-American Universities, accounting for the intensive use of digital technologies in architecture. To bridge technological gaps, the authors describe collaborative efforts to produce full-size constructions, using networking, which results in a hybridization of these "new media" adapted to local and cultural contexts. These initiatives arise from an attempt to overcome the lack of resources at local Universities and their rigid institutional processes, along with their concerns about promoting global connectivity for new generations, leading to informal and collective actions that break with traditional teaching, applying advanced techniques in unseen collective and creative processes. These experiences reveal an architectural work distributed among all the participants that collaborate in the conceptualization, programming, management, and execution of the design, with diverse hybrid practices, and a powerful collective synergy. This also results in new expanded proposals that unfold new relationships with the environment and the community. Thus, these actions tend, by themselves, to integrate and project new horizons in architectural collaboration. This article aims at mapping these spatial-temporal actions in Architecture from the global south (Santos 2014). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The research which generated this article analyzes the communicational experience of musical listening workshops. The songs used in the activities value the semiotic, cultural, and aesthetic borders of the Global South. The theoretical-methodological path proposes a) to approach the regimes of pop music by showing the criteria for choosing some hybrid works positioned in cultural boundaries; b) take these musical productions to our workshops; c) to identify the knowledge and cultural perspectives triggered in the communicational processes of listening; and d) to propose a semiotic analysis that gathers the empirical data of the workshops and the enunciation of the works (artists). This study aims to think of sound and listening as a communicational experience of difference and otherness which can update pop music media memory and media regimes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While the Global South emerged as a collective political project in which states could pursue a more autonomous path to development through South-South Cooperation (SSC), there is no clear consensus on what SSC is, preventing the development of shared international guidelines and impacting on the States involved. Furthermore, in the case of Brazil, cooperation programmes are tied to governmental agendas rather than State agendas, preventing the emergence of a continuous political project centred on the Global South. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to examine these gaps by recalling the formation of Global South consciousness and the political changes in Brazil using a structuralist approach. We aim to present an up-to-date picture of the country's challenges by demonstrating how the lack of conceptual agreement affects SSC and what the longstanding problems are that make it difficult to turn the Global South and SSC into a State agenda in Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Examining references to proverbs in African political discourses in light of Integrational semiology and Southern Theory, we find not fossils of ancient wisdom but the creative construction of desired futures that may grow out of the present situation in light of what has been learned from the past. Proverbial discourse, always speaking to the present situation and commenting on available possibilities while being open to multiple interpretations, suggests an important argument about the provisional and contextual nature of all our knowledge. Beginning with the assumption that each of us is in a better position to understand our own situation than any foreign observer or abstract schemata could ever be, we argue that the indeterminacy of creative proverbial discourse can present a better epistemological foundation for dealing with the uncertainties of natural events. We suggest that proverbial discourse as it is practiced in various African societies can be utilized as a way of framing and approaching Southern Theories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a personal view on where integrationism sits in the current field of linguistics and applied linguistics research. In doing so, the paper aims at clarifying the distinctive contribution that the integrationist tradition may make in responding to the challenge that Alastair Pennycook and Sinfree Makoni (2020) have posed of a re-made linguistics that can learn from and do justice to the struggles for both social justice and equality across both the Global South and Global North as well as for harmonious and mutually beneficial relations with our world and the other beings that share it with us. The question, then, is whether in recoiling along this particular critical trajectory from within and against our own cultural heritage we will meet and join productively the decolonizing tide coming towards us in the form of the insurgent intellectual and activist movements of the global south. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Este artigo tem como objetivo discutir a questão de gênero na FAPESP por intermédio de dois indicadores: os cargos de tomada de decisão e os acordos internacionais assinados com a União Europeia, e seus países membros e associados. A análise faz uso de fontes primárias: a partir dos dados oficiais da Fundação, utiliza estatística descritiva para verificar a porcentagem de mulheres em cargos de tomada de decisão por áreas do conhecimento, quando possível; assim como analisa acordos internacionais para verificar a menção à igualdade de gênero em seus textos. Apenas 8% do Conselho Superior, em uma perspectiva histórica, foi composto por mulheres. Além disso, apenas 2% dos acordos analisados citavam a igualdade de gênero. Na FAPESP, apesar de ser possível observar um aumento histórico da participação das mulheres, o resultado da análise mostra que ainda há muito o que avançar quanto à assimetria nas carreiras científicas, assim como em níveis hierárquicos mais altos relacionados à política científica. Neste cenário, a criação de políticas científicas e tecnológicas com a finalidade de desenvolver incentivos para a igualdade de gênero é essencial.

O presente trabalho busca analisar historicamente o capitalismo e sua inserção no subcontinente latino-americano e no Brasil, principalmente dos anos 1970 até a atualidade. A partir disso, buscamos mostrar como funcionam as relações das classes burguesas locais com o Centro capitalista em cada padrão de acumulação no subcontinente. Defende-se aqui uma visão do sistema capitalista como totalidade única em que a reprodução do sistema no Norte Global tem influência significativa nos Estados do Sul. Desse modo podemos mostrar que as burguesias da América Latina e, mais particularmente, a do Brasil possuem fortes vínculos com o Centro. Não podendo serem compreendidas adequadamente se consideradas apenas o cenário político e social circunscrito aos Estados que fazem parte.

This article examines the transnational activism of the Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil (Revolutionary Student Directorate, DRE), a group of exiled Cuban anti-Castro students. In the wake of the Bay of Pigs invasion, with CIA funding, the DRE attempted to challenge student support for the Cuban Revolution in Latin America and elsewhere in the global South. This article uses the DRE's trajectory to rethink the 1960s as a period of anti-communist, as well as leftist, youth ascendancy. It challenges the idea that Cuba garnered universal youth support, stressing instead that the Cuban Revolution helped turn student politics into a key battleground of the Cold War. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The purpose of this article is to present an analysis of policies that joint gender and health in Latin America, based on a global dimension of the agenda and the institutionalization of this issues at the region. It focuses on how studies and global assessments of these policies "make gender" precisaly, connected to the coloniality that weaves societies in the Global South. The methodology included a discourse analysis of recent publications provided by two global actors highlighted in the review: Cepal and PAHO. Among the results, there are differences in the of "making gender" of these organs, with the discursive operation of suppression of heterogeneity in the idea of autonomy of the first and with relational constructions of gender of the second linked to equity. It is noteworthy that the alignment to neoliberal policies does not allow us to visualize more robust instruments of social justice proposed in these evaluations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Neste artigo buscamos refletir sobre a dimensão política das práticas de produção e de disseminação de conhecimento, com enfoque na esfera acadêmica. A partir do âmbito das políticas linguísticas, debatemos o regime de produção de saberes legitimados, atentando para o papel da língua, especialmente aqueles localizados no Sul Global. O texto enfoca três elementos: (i) Em atenção aos movimentos #Rhodesmustfall e #Feesmustfall (2015-2017), buscamos refletir sobre o modelo de formação no ensino superior na África do Sul, incluindo políticas linguísticas a favor do multilinguismo e da a construção de horizontes que revertam a injustiça epistêmica. (ii) Além disso, em diálogo com o o Plano de Ação de Brasília (PAB) para a promoção, a difusão e a projeção da Língua Portuguesa, enfocamos a internacionalização da língua portuguesa, sinalizando para o papel desempenhado por essa língua em políticas tanto de inclusão, como de exclusão e invisibilização da diversidade cultural e linguística, especialmente na relação Sul-Sul; (iii) Em reconhecimento à importância da autoria na esfera de produção intelectual, discorremos sobre o conceito de lugar de fala e a política de citação com fins de problematizar a centralidade conferida aos pesquisadores, saberes e línguas do Norte, notadamente o inglês, na política de produção e disseminação. Finalmente, argumentamos que uma política que opere a favor da justiça epistêmica deve ser capaz de rever as regras do jogo, atentando para as relações históricas de poder que contribuiram para gerar geopolíticas e economias do conhecimento centrais e periféricas.

Neste trabalho propomos refletir a Maré Verde como expressão de um marcante momento na história do movimento feminista internacional, que aconteceu na Argentina, no dia 30 de dezembro de 2020. Neste dia, com 38 votos a favor, 29 contra e uma abstenção, o senado argentino aprovou a lei que permite que a interrupção voluntária da gravidez seja realizada de maneira legal, segura e gratuita para mulheres até a 14ª semana de gestação. Ao propor uma reflexão a partir da análise de conjuntura produzida sobre esse momento, não nos referimos somente a vitória institucional que isso representa, enquanto direito social historicamente reivindicado, mas sobre a sua construção enquanto parte de um conjunto de pautas políticas de uma resistência que não se encerra naquele momento, mas sua vitória potencializa um conflito político historicamente travado pelas mulheres do Sul Global. Neste trabalho concluímos que a ação política travada pelas mulheres argentinas reflete na articulação do movimento feminista na América Latina e no denominado Sul Global, como expressão de uma reivindicação de caráter histórico conflitivo da sua resistência.

Resenha do Livro: FIELD Jr, Thomas C.; KREPP, Stella; PETTINÀ Vanni (ed.). Latin America and the Global Cold War. The New Cold War history. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2020, 440p.

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Desenvolvidos nos anos 1970, os conceitos de informalidade e circuito inferior – criados, respectivamente, pelo antropólogo britânico Keith Hart e pelo geógrafo brasileiro Milton Santos – integravam teorias que tinham por objetivo interpretar a economia urbana no Sul Global, entendido na época como Terceiro Mundo. Partindo das contribuições desses autores, este artigo busca analisar a organização da economia urbana contemporânea de Gana, país localizado na África Ocidental. Os dados quantitativos e qualitativos utilizados neste estudo foram obtidos por meio de fontes secundárias (livros, artigos e relatórios setoriais) e primárias (entrevistas semiestruturadas, descrição densa e registros da paisagem conduzidos entre 2013 e 2016), as quais permitiram não apenas reiterar o vigor interpretativo das proposições de Hart e Santos como também revelar o dinamismo contemporâneo da economia urbana do país em questão, composto por atividades que operam em múltiplas escalas geográficas, segundo diferentes níveis de organização e capitalização.

This article proposes a revised approach to the mainstream definition and understanding of the term 'Global South' by anchoring its meaning in a relational view of space. Secondly, it presents the GCC-Mercosur agreement as a case study that illustrates the obstacles involved in the making of spaces in the Global South. The main research question addressed here is: Why has the GCC-Mercosur framework agreement failed to materialize into a meaningful economic space? This question will be answered through David Harvey's theoretical insights and Doreen Massey's relational approach to space, as well as post-structural geography. This article argues that the promise of increased trade and investment was the basis on which the GCC-Mercosur economic space was designed, but the narrowness of the framework agreement's scope and the socio-political relations organized around it have not been able to sustain or strengthen this Global South space. This study employs discourse analysis as its main methodological technique, grounded on a Foucauldian understanding of the empirical properties of discursive activities. It concludes by advocating for the need to incentivize a broader engagement of civil society in the processes of Global South space making. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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So far in the 21st century, the international development aid and cooperation regime has seen an increase in initiatives carried out by different emerging powers and developing countries, focusing more and more around China, whose peculiar way of cooperating seems to guide the structural transformation of the global South. Therefore, in order to discuss these issues, this article analyzes and debates the literature that argues about the "model" of Chinese South-South cooperation, exploring its characteristics and the peculiar relations between China and developing countries, in the face of the crisis. of the traditional cooperation regime. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

O presente trabalho tem por objetivo principal realizar uma introdução ao pensamento descolonial. Em segundo lugar, evidenciar que referida tradição oferece um ferramental teórico-conceitual adequado para analisar a complexidade do direito moderno, bem como para analisar as especificidades que assume no Sul global.

RESUMO O artigo busca focar nas principais tendências no âmbito da privatização da educação em 24 países africanos considerados frágeis pela Parceria Global para a Educação, comparando as diferenças e os pontos em comum. Com esse objetivo, recorre-se a um corpus documental para a realização de análise de conteúdo dos dados invocados, de modo a evidenciar o conteúdo manifesto. A análise realizada permite inferir que predomina, nos diferentes países, a perspectiva da privatização da educação planejada em detrimento da de facto, e constatar que, quando os documentos mencionam a gestão privada, referem-se, principalmente, à comunidade/aos pais. Concluiu-se que predomina a perspectiva de que as decisões são baseadas em evidências científicas, existindo, contudo, cinco países considerados atípicos.

Este artigo trata do trabalho de plataforma a partir da definição de uberização. Esta é compreendida como uma nova forma de organização, gerenciamento e controle do trabalho, que se firma como uma tendência global. A novidade catalisada pelas plataformas digitais se refere à um gerenciamento algorítmico que precisa ser mais bem compreendido e analisado É possível perscrutar uma nova forma de controle, que opera na extração e processamento de dados da multidão de trabalhadores, que são então utilizados como meios novos e pouco conhecidos para o gerenciamento do trabalho, informados pela possibilidade de um pleno mapeamento do processo de trabalho (Zuboff, 2018). São analisados: o trabalho de revendedoras de cosméticos para pensar em nas características tipicamente femininas do trabalho que se generalizam; o trabalho de motoboys e sua uberização na cidade de São Paulo.

Este texto é uma resenha do livro “Las teorías de la Integración regional: más allá del eurocentrismo” escrito por Briceño Ruiz e publicado em 2018 pelo “Centro de Pensamiento Global”. O livro representa o coroamento da evolução das ideias desse autor, em que ele não só valoriza as práxis e as teorias do Sul Global, como também expressa a sua crítica às interpretações e aplicações acríticas da teoria europeia no entendimento de outras iniciativas de integração regional nos levando a crer que esta obra represente um ponto de interseção entre a disciplina de Regionalismo Internacional e o movimento vanguardista decolonial que também questiona o eurocentrismo a partir da Geopolítica do Conhecimento e Colonização do Saber.

Neste artigo são propostas aproximações com a temática da deficiência na África do Sul, a partir da reflexão sobre o disability grant – um benefício para pessoas com deficiência que não possam trabalhar. O texto é resultado de uma pesquisa realizada a partir de interações com pesquisadores e pesquisadoras de universidades na Cidade do Cabo e região, em 2018. A produção sul-africana acerca da deficiência destaca-se no cenário internacional pela significativa história de ativismo e de elaboração de pesquisas e políticas de vanguarda. Embora ainda pouco acessada no Brasil, a tradição da África do Sul oferece referenciais teóricos e pontos de comparação etnográfica que nos ajudam a pensar a deficiência desde o Sul Global a partir de eixos mais densos que a afirmação de um ciclo de coprodução entre deficiência e pobreza, notando suas articulações constitutivas com dinâmicas raciais, espaciais e políticas.

A proposta deste trabalho é discutir sobre a pesquisa-ação como uma das possibilidades de desenvolvimento de uma epistemologia do Sul, na qual possa se atrelar o conhecimento científico e outras ecologias de saberes. Propomos, neste trabalho, realizar uma cartografia sobre o que vem sendo desenvolvido sobre pesquisa-ação no Brasil, buscando discutir esta dimensão de produção de conhecimento a partir de perspectivas que busquem romper o abismo entre ciência colonizadora e a ciência invisibilizada na geopolítica do conhecimento científico. Assim, nossa proposta busca compreender o que vem sido produzido sobre pesquisa-ação no Brasil, quem são os atores que estão desenvolvendo este tipo de pesquisa e como esta pode ser entendida como própria de uma epistemologia do Sul.

Until recently, comparative spatial planning research had mostly focused on the European continent. Since the end of the 1980s, a growing number of studies contributed to the proliferation of theoretical and methodological approaches, as well as to a further definition of the object of study. Comparisons focusing on other parts of the World are much less frequent, if one excludes the rather 'dry' reports produced by international organizations. Aiming at investigating the reasons behind this empirical gap, the paper inquires the theoretical implications and challenges that emerge when applying to the global South conceptual and analytical frameworks developed in the Northern hemisphere. In so doing, it first raises awareness on the role played by the colonial legacy to then argue for the need to 'go beyond technical efficiency' and to consider dominant power relations hidden by the apparent neutrality of spatial governance and planning systems, particularly in relation to contexts where spatial inequalities are more pronounced. In this light, it suggests to consider informal practices alongside formal ones, as a way forward to better understand the drivers structuring spatial governance and planning systems in the Global South. Overall, to test comparative spatial governance and planning studies to the Latin American context could provide an added value for the development of the region, by setting up a regional agenda for more integrated and cooperative spatial planning in Latin America. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The riots against a New York City police raid at the Stonewall Inn bar in June, 1969, are often identified as having sparked the movement for LGBT rights, and the commemoration of the riots one year later in June, 1970, inaugurated a series of annual LGBT Pride events that continues to this day worldwide. In this two-part Forum, we reflect on the contradictory effects of Stonewall's international legacy. Which facts or legends are celebrated and which are marginalized fifty years later? How has the sign 'Stonewall' come to inspire and/or sideline other resistances as the US event became appropriated globally? In this first part of the Forum, Silva and Jacobo consider how trans women of colour in the Global South have pursued the struggle of the pioneering trans women activists in New York City and engaged the history of Stonewall beyond the United States, negating the whitewashing of discourse on the riots by hegemonic cis gay men and cis lesbian women of the movement, even in their respective nations, Brazil and the Philippines. This forum contribution pays tribute to black and brown trans persons whose bodies had been thought of as monstrous in the heart of empire and elsewhere, where empire remains. The authors together aspire to think the planet from their coordinates: south by south, trans for trans. From the sisterhood they forged, these two trans women from Rio de Janeiro and Manila, imbricated in their wounds but bound together by a will to heal, theorize resistance and reexistence as women in a decolonial, transfeminist present. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cities in the global South have received attention in global governance and sustainability discussions. This seems to be a logical result, considering that most people in the world live in them. In particular, Medellín has received important attention thanks to a series of urban interventions related to the improvement of different aspects of the quality of life of its inhabitants. In this article we discuss how governance is materialized and takes different shapes depending on the conditions and actors in each specific case. Additionally, we explore the case of Juan Bobo, a housing consolidation pilot project that took place in the city of Medellín. Through this case, we try to understand how governance takes shape under informal conditions and how can different functional combinations of governance styles be achieved to solve some of the problems that affect self-built neighborhoods in the city. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article starts from the assertion that in Brazil, classifying platform work as necessarily precarious is part of a classist discourse that is prevalent among national scientists for two reasons: the uncritical incorporation of academic research on the world of work developed in the Global North and the lack of attention paid to the voices of platform workers themselves. First, a literature review is conducted to explore the prevailing ideology about informal work and digital work in Brazil, showing how this ideology is not based in facts or concepts specific to the Global South. Next, data and theoretical constructions from research with platform workers from Brazil are presented and problematized. These platforms are programmed architectures that organize interactions between users; in this text, platforms are characterized as mediations of productive forces and production relations. We then present data collected through exploratory research conducted in São Paulo with nine platform workers, the results of which suggest a heterogeny of meanings and social meanings attributed to this type of occupation. Platform workers do not necessarily see themselves as engaged in precarious work. It is worth considering that their work may not indeed be precarious when their context is compared with realities that are sometimes unimaginable in the Global North, in which the fullness of employment was experienced during the 20th century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It is intended to discuss the artwork "Parthenon of Books" by Argentine artist Marta Minujín by analyzing the contexts that dialogue with the artwork: the burning of books during German Nazism and the military dictatorship in Argentina. The analysis is based in the curatorial proposal of documenta 14 to displace from its hegemonic center (the city of Kassel) to the South (in Athens). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article discusses the territorial dynamics between Brazil and Angola produced in the context of the rise and financial bubble burst of commodities over the first two decades of the 2000s. We present the territorial dynamics between Brazil and Angola by means of the circuits of work and of capital mobility between the two countries from the emergence of a new geoeconomic and geopolitical arrangement in the global South, by conducting a survey of the literature and interviews. In the ambit of capital mobility, we present the exportation of Brazilian services to contractors of the civil construction sector, focusing on the operations by Odebrecht, responsible for a considerable set of large works in Luanda and in other Angolan places. In order to present the dynamics of work mobility, we describe the trajectory of Angolan immigrants subjected to the Brazilian Refugee Status Act, considering its law and work conditions. As a result, we present the mapping of the major actions towards territorial modernization promoted by Odebrecht in Angolan territory and a qualitative characterization of the Angolan immigrant situation in contemporary Brazil. Concurrently, we propose an understanding of the contemporary territorial dynamics between Brazil and Angola as part of a process brimming with social-spatial and economic contradictions, the outcome of which is inserted in the dynamic and crisis of contemporary financial capitalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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