Key Concepts
To read “globalectically,” as the Kenyan writer, scholar, and activist Ngugi wa Thiong’o has urged, is to engage a text “with the eyes of the world; it is to see the world with the eyes of the text” (Ngugi 2012, 60).
Within the extensive scholarship on decolonization across the Global South, a great deal of attention has been paid to the high tide of transnational solidarity...
Creolization offers a conceptual framework for understanding the ways in which different racialized groups interact to give rise to new social, cultural, and racial formations.
The acronym BRICS comprises the nations of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa which represent the five major emerging economies...
The concept of “coolitude” provides a creative and discursive framework for remembering and comprehending the dislocation and transformation expressed...
Extractivism is a capacious concept. It circulates among academics and activists, across the Global South and North.
Moral economies are systems of exchange based on customary practice, which is assumed to be fair and equitable in relation to modern economic behavior.
Indenture — the practice of transporting workers to perform labor in a different part of the world for a fixed period of time in return for passage and wages — is a compelling way of thinking through the links between different parts of the Global South.
Anticolonialism in the twentieth and twenty-first century refers to two interconnected concepts: a historical event and a critical analytic...
Coastal subsidence, warming ocean temperatures, and rising sea levels have left cities like Miami and Mumbai particularly vulnerable as increased cyclonic activity threatens already compromised urban infrastructures...
Biopolitics is a critical term used with some variation across the fields of political theory, international relations, cultural studies, critical sociology, and globalization studies...
The concept of disposability is intimately connected to the notions of waste and consumption...
Environmental crisis, which is coterminous with late capitalism in the 20th and 21st centuries, has unequivocally revealed humanity’s historical locus as that of petromodernity...
Differentiated Citizenship is defined as “the granting of special group-based legal or constitutional rights to national minorities and ethnic groups”...
‘Minor Transnationalism’ offers us a conceptual framework for aggregating numerous movements, groups, and discourses that, whether local, regional, or multinational...
Network Power refers to the power exercised by some social actors over others via rules of inclusion and coordination within networks...