Patel, Kamna;
(2024)
Global North and Global South.
In: Dauncey, Emil and Desai, Vandana and Potter, Robert, (eds.)
The Companion to Development Studies.
Routledge: Abingdon, UK.
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Abstract
In contemporary development studies the terms ‘Global North’ and ‘Global South’, sometimes capitalised and sometimes not, roll off the tongue as a familiar, known and knowable concept that translates easily across development audiences. I refer to ‘Global North’ and ‘Global South’ as a singular concept because one does not make any sense without the other. Its meaning is derived entirely from being a pair where one part serves as an imaginary counterfoil to the other. As a heuristic device, the usage and utility of Global North/South intends to conjure particular imaginations of difference. Within development studies, a field of scholarship that rests on differences between places and people, I argue the main usage of Global North/South is part of a longer history of racialised sense-making that follows a colonial imprint, and its utility is derived from development scholars and practitioners readily discovering, learning and locating subjects of development.
Type: | Book chapter |
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Title: | Global North and Global South |
ISBN: | 0429282346 |
ISBN-13: | 9780429282348 |
DOI: | 10.4324/9780429282348 |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429282348 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions. |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Development Planning Unit |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10192664 |
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