This book is the outcome of a project of scholarly collaboration between social scientists from Africa, Asia and Latin America. Taking into consideration the worsening of social, economic, political and environmental conditions now overwhelming these regions and the shortcomings of the responses offered by the conventional wisdom, the concerned institutions intend with this project to open new paths in the production and distribution of relevant knowledge from a Southern perspective. The chapters included in this book were presented and discussed in a workshop on South/South Scholarly Collaboration held in Havana, Cuba, in October 2003, sponsored by Sida/SAREC, and within the framework of CLACSO’s XXI General Assembly. The authors reflect their perceptions and shared concerns about issues such as the new “rules of the game” prevailing in the current international order and its consequences on state and politics in Africa, Asia and Latin America; the unsettled questions of land and agrarian reform; the uprising of new social actors and protest movements; and the possibilities and prospects arising from a new dialogue and concertation between states, societies and social forces in the South.
Author(s): Atilio A. Boron; Gladys Lechini; et al.
Publisher: CLACSO
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 407
City: Buenos Aires
Atilio A. Boron & Gladys Lechini
Introduction
Part I. Contending Visions in the Current International (Dis)Order
Luis Maira Aguirre
Relations Between Latin America and the United States: Balance and Prospects
Emir Sader
Latin America in the XXI Century
Samir Amin
The Driftages of Modernity: the Case of Africa and the Arab World
Hari Singh
Asia-Pacific in (America’s) New World Order
Xu Shicheng
The New Empire and the New US Hegemony
Part II. Society and Politics in a Neoliberal Age
Atilio A. Boron
After the Sacking: Latin American Capitalism at the Beginning of the XXI Century
Adebayo Olukoshi
Changing Patterns of Politics in Africa
Musa Abutudu
Human Security in Africa: Challenges and Prospects
Part III. Social Movements and the Peasant Question
José Seoane, Emilio Taddei & Clara Algranati
The New Configurations of Popular Movements in Latin America
Madeleine Andebeng L. Alingué
African Transatlantic Resistance and Movements
Kande Mutsaku Kamilamba & Mariana Castro Álvarez
The NGOs of Development in the South: Neo-liberalism’s Instruments or Popular Alternatives? A Critical Approach to the Third Sector
Sam Moyo
The Land Question and the Peasantry in Southern Africa
François Houtart
Why Should Small Rice Farmers in Sri Lanka Disappear?
Part IV. Building a New African, Asian and Latin American Dialogue
Gladys Lechini
Is South-South Co-operation still Possible? The Case of Brazil’s Strategy and Argentina’s Impulses Towards the New South Africa and Africa
Garth Shelton
China, Africa and Asia Advancing South-South Co-operation
Miryam Colacrai
Steps Towards Integration in Latin America The Role of Ideas, Institutions and Policies in the MERCOSUR
Jaime Zuluaga Nieto
A Tricontinental of Knowledge: A Space for South-South Cooperation
