THE

CONTEMPORARY
WORLD
The Global South

Prepared by:
Ma. Janda Ira Felina M. Benedictos
Instructor 1
Philippine Merchant Marine Academy
Where does one see
GLOBALIZATION?
 The Global South
• The enforcement of neo liberal consensus
deepens inequality in the world’s poorest
countries.
• Thus it reinforces the endemic poverty of the Global
South.
• Poverty is also being globalized
 The Global South
• Global South
– Conceiving the Global South is of primary
importance to those who are engaged in social
and political action against global inequality.
– It allows critics and activists to make distinctions
between the beneficiaries of uneven systems of
Global Power
– It is also used as a banner to rally countries
victimized by the violent economic “cures” of
institutions like the IMF
 The Global South
• Global South
– It is a symbolic designation meant to capture the
semblance of cohesion that emerged when former
colonial entities engaged in political projects of
decolonization and moved toward the realization
of postcolonial international order
 The Global South

• Interstate inequalities
–Described by using the
terms:
• Third World
• Developing World
• Global South
 The Global South
• Possible objections to the concept of the
Global South
– There are forms of power inequality that cannot
be reduced to discussions of state politics
– Not all of the formal colonial entities are states
– The process of globalization places into question
geographically-bound conceptions of poverty and
inequality
 The Global South

THERE IS A GLOBAL SOUTH IN THE GLOBAL

NORTH AND VICE VERSA
 The Global South
• Reasons to pursue analyzing states and
interstate equalities
– The decolonization process produced states, now
recognized as sovereign under the system of
international law promoted by the United Nations
– Solutions to problems produced by globalization are
largely forwarded and articulated on a state level
– The phenomena largely considered ‘transnational’ are
results of state policies
 The Global South
• Reasons to pursue analyzing states and
interstate equalities
– The decolonization process produced states, now
recognized as sovereign under the system of
international law promoted by the United Nations
• The likelihood of being poor is high for people who live in
states now considered associated with the Global South.
• Many of these formerly colonized countries are the same
ones inadequately represented in Global Organizations like
the World Trade Organization (WTO).
 The Global South
• Reasons to pursue analyzing states and
interstate equalities
– Solutions to problems produced by globalization are
largely forwarded and articulated on a state level
• Bello, Walden one of the leading critics of neo liberalism,
insists that development in the global south must start by
not depending on foreign direct investment but instead
focus the country’s financial resources for internal
development
 The Global South
• Reasons to pursue analyzing states and
interstate equalities
– The phenomena largely considered ‘transnational’ are
results of state policies
• Deterritorialization such as labor migration. For
example Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) began with
the deliberate move on the part of the Marcos regime
to send labor outside the country. This also occurred in
Indonesia during Suharto’s New Order. As a result both
countries are dependent on remittances.
 The Global South
• Looking at this analysis it shows that the
state will continue to be an important
unit of analysis despite deterritorializing
effects of Globalization.
 The Global South
• Looking at this analysis it shows that the
state will continue to be an important
unit of analysis despite deterritorializing
effects of Globalization.
 The Global South
• The Global South is the product of
Western Imagination
• The France mission civilisatrice- which
held that colonization was a necessary
tool for the spread of civilization.
• Colonialism’s logic also shaped the birth
of the international order
 The Global South
• Social internationalism, eventually rose
to the forefront of anti-colonialism but
was slow to take up the cause of
colonized people.
 Conclusion
• The Global South
– As a symbol and metaphor is not only relevant for
those who live in countries traditionally associated
with it
– The global in global south does not only that the
south is in the globe. It also signifies that the
south continues to be globalized