En búsqueda de la relevancia del G-77 y China para América Latina y el Caribe: diez tesis sobre la cooperación Sur-Sur en el siglo XXI

Este artículo persigue dos objetivos interrelacionados que se basan en una revisión de la literatura académica del pasado y presente de la Cooperación Sur-Sur (CSS): primero, contrarresta el sesgo eurocéntrico en la producción de conocimiento sobre la Cooperación Sur-Sur (en especial, pero no exclusivamente) en la academia anglófona, que se manifiesta en una desproporcionada concentración en los BRICS (Brasil, Rusia, India, China, Sudáfrica) mientras se marginan otros proyectos globales relevantes. Segundo, como una contribución de la teoría crítica, este artículo busca reclamar el histórico potencial emancipatorio asociado con la CSS, la cual implica relaciones y proyectos regidos por los principios de complementariedad, cooperación y solidaridad, como está establecido en la Carta de Argel del G-77 de 1967, para relaciones más horizontales (igualitarias y justas, a veces –pero no necesariamente– altruistas), diplomáticas, de comercio, ayuda e inversión, e intercambios de mutuos beneficios (relaciones de “ganar-ganar”), también asociadas, históricamente, con el Nuevo Orden Económico Internacional de las Naciones Unidas del año 1974. De este modo, excluyendo miembros del Comité de Ayuda al Desarrollo de la Organización para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Económico (OECD-DAC, por sus siglas en inglés), la CSS busca alianzas entre los miembros del G-77 y China y el Movimiento de Países no Alineados. Las diez tesis presentadas a continuación problematizan empírica, teórica, conceptual y metodológicamente, temas esenciales para el debate de la CSS en el siglo XXI. Subsecuentemente, la conclusión presenta algunas ideas orientadas políticamente a exponer la relevancia del G-77 y China para América Latina y el Caribe, y viceversa

Equity of access to higher education in the context of South–South cooperation in Latin America: a pluri-scalar analysis

This article draws from an education governance approach to conduct a pluriscalar analysis of equity of access to tertiary education in the context of South–South cooperation. An account of distributional justice in access to tertiary education in the Federative Republic of Brazil and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela is integrated with a structural approach related to South–South cooperation among the two nations as well as within the Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR), upon which two interrelated arguments are developed: first, despite persistent inequities in access to university education in both territories, state-interventionist policies enhance equity of access directly with respect to availability and accessibility. Second, South–South cooperation transforms the background conditions for educational justice by producing an alternative structure to the neoliberal global governance of education and its agenda of privatisation and commercialisation

Understanding the Bolivarian revolution

Review of Luis Fernando Angosto-Ferrández (editor), Democracy, revolution, and geopolitics in Latin America, Routledge 2014

“How to get from here to there?” – Alternative knowledge production, mobilization, and counter-hegemonic globalization

Carroll, William K. 2016. Expose, oppose, propose: alternative policy groups and the struggle for global justice. London: Zed Books. ISBN 978-1-78360-603-0. Paperback: 22.99 GBP. / Halifax: Fernwood. ISBN 978-1-55266-834-4. Paperback: 25.00 CAD. Pages: 224. The organic crisis of hegemonic neoliberal globalization, manifested in aggravated uneven development condensed with ecological unsustainability, requires systemic transformation towards justice globalism. William Carroll’s distinguished 4-year research project integrates network analysis with qualitative interviewing to depict a rich picture of the contribution of counter-hegemonic knowledge production and mobilisation by transnational alternative policy groups (TAPGs) to such an emancipatory alternative future. Grounded in thorough data analysis, dialogue between neo-Gramscian methodology, which recognizes the structure/agency dialectic, and the empirical, makes this book an indispensable resource for proponents of global justice as it overcomes the disempowering voluntaristic localism and anti-statism that underlies much of both mainstream and critical approaches to “progressive” social transformation

TINA Go Home! ALBA and Re-theorizing Resistance to Global Capitalism

Centred around Antonio Gramsci's concept of hegemony, this paper employs a critical globalisation theory framework to argue that the 1990s notion of ‘changing the world from below', understood as resistance to capitalist globalisation through a ‘transnational civil society', requires re-theorisation in the light of the contemporary developments in Our America. I make a methodological case for a neo-Gramscian approach to argue that ‘counter-hegemony', together with an adequate theorisation of the state and power, should be the preferred concept over the inherently apolitical and under-theorised ‘alter-globalisation'. Whilst the alter-globalisation movement's ideational and normative challenges to hegemony (captured in ex-British prime minister Thatcher's There-Is-No-Alternative-Doctrine, TINA) are undisputed, the transformation of the global geographies of power through local actors alone has remained illusory. Rather, the experience of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America - Peoples' Trade Agreement (ALBA-PTA) strongly suggests that counter-hegemonic globalisation theory will have to consider the roles of both the ‘state-in-revolution' and the ‘transnational organised society'. This will be shown through the analysis and theorisation of the ALBA-PTA as a multi dimensional inter and transnational counter-hegemonic regionalisation and globalisation project that operates across a range of sectors and scales

Venezuela : Global counter-hegemony, Geographies of regional development, and higher education for all

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ATLAS/ti: ein Werkzeug für die Textinterpretation

Der Beitrag stellt das System ATLAS/ti für die computerunterstützte Textinterpretation vor. Ausgangspunkt für die Entwicklung der Software war die Erfahrung von Sozialwissenschaftlern, in der für qualitativ orientierte Untersuchungen typischen Datenfülle regelrecht zu ertrinken ("Zettels (Alb-) Traum")

South-South development cooperation and the socio-spatial reconfiguration of Latin America-Caribbean regionalisms: university education in the Brazil-Venezuela ‘Special Border Regime’

This chapter approaches the changing geometries of Latin America–Caribbean regionalisms through the lens of South-South cooperation and the role of university education in the construction of a Brazil–Venezuela cross-border sub-region termed ‘Special Border Regime’. Within the general reintensification of South–South cooperation in the geographical area, I concentrate on the Brazil–Venezuela official development cooperation between 2003 and 2015 and the transformation of the Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR) in relation to the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – Peoples’ Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP), to argue that a South–South cooperation counter-space is being produced in which university education is sought to be re-established as a fundamental right and state responsibility