Global Divide Flashcards
generally viewed to be more affluent and econoGlobalmically stable countries. Includes the G8 countries
North
includes most nations located in Africa, Latin America and the developing parts of Asia with the exception of Japan
South
visual depiction of the North-South divide between their economies, based onGDP per capita, proposed by Willy Brandt in the 1980s.
TheBrandt Line
G8
France.
Germany.
Italy.
Japan.
United Kingdom.
United States.
Canada.
Russia.
UNDP’s Human Development Index
Global North – 64 countries who have high HDI
Global South – 133 countries
the sum of value added by all resident producers plus any product taxes (less subsidies) not included in the valuation of output plus net receipts of primary income (compensation of employees and property income) from abroad.
Gross national income(GNI
Highest HDI
Norway
“the important question may not be “what the global south is” but rather “for whom and under what conditions the global south becomes relevant”
Levander and Mignolo (2011)
The Global South is everywhere , but it is also somewhere and that somewhere , located at the intersection of entangled political geographies of dispossession and repossession.
Sparke (2007)
Focus on the state and interstate dynamics creates a ___________, which ignores the richness of non-state politics.
methodological narrowing
Decolonization process produced states now recognized as sovereign under the system of international law promoted by UN.
Solutions to problems produced by globalization are largely forwarded and articulated on a state level.
The state remains the main mechanism for social transfers, making it the strongest vehicle for social redistribution
State’s ability to protect the environment. The global environmental crisis is a reflection of interstate inequality
Phenomena largely considered as transnational are the results of state policies
State as an important unit of analysis
Reasons why insist on analyzing state and interstate inequalities?
a product of Western imagination
GLOBAL SOUTH
– a necessary tool for the spread of “civilization”
Colonization
*resistance against spanish colonization
Anderson
There is a global south is the global north and there is a global north in the global south.
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