Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Foreword by Neera Chandhoke
Introduction
Two notes for the reader
The themes and contributions of this book
A closing coda
Notes
References
1. The (im)possibility of Southern theory: The opportunities and challenges of cultural brokerage in co-producing knowledge about China–Africa relations
Introduction
Researching China–Africa relations
Doing theory
Conclusion
References
Vignette: Where is the South? Global, postcolonial and
intersectional perspectives
References
2. Devouring international relations: Anthropophagy and the study of South–South cooperation
Naked, ferocious and savage
Global South ways of knowing
From taboo to totem: Brazilian anthropophagy
The uses of cannibalism
Conclusion
Notes
References
Vignette: Has research gone South? Perspectives of a Brazilian
researcher in Britain
Not a perfect fit: Methodological and conceptual challenges
The relentless asymmetrical constraints in academia
‘Finding true South’: Opportunities for future research
Notes
Acknowledgements
References
3. Criticizing your ‘motherland’ to foreigners? The dilemma of critical scholarship and self-censorship in analysing Korea’s foreign aid as a national(istic) project
Introduction: The field and my research agenda
Fieldwork methods: Participant observation and in-depth interviews
Researcher self-reflexivity: The problem of self-censorship
Conclusion
Notes
References
Vignette: “We need people like you”: Reflections on identity
and expectations in South–South Cooperation research
Introduction
Lessons from the field
North, South or in-between?
Notes
References
Vignette: Silent North, loud South: Reflections on
transregional research in Afrasian and Afrabian spaces
References
4. A plea for kaleidoscopic knowledge production
Introduction
A Western view on the East: What can research on Arab–African
aid interactions teach us about North–South and South–South
cooperation?
A view from the South: Perspectives of a Mexican student doing research on Cuban medical aid in Mozambique
A view from the South: A Senegalese perspective on a French president’s joke
A view from the North: What can researchers in a Northern knowledge institute (not) contribute to knowledge production on SSDC?
Notes
References
Vignette: The politics of knowledge production and
post/de/anti-colonial positionality
Acknowledgements
References
Vignette: Difference within similarity: How South–South
Cooperation research should no longer label ‘difference’ as an
obstacle to partnerships
Note
References
Vignette: The Africa–China Reporting Project in Johannesburg
as South–South journalism nexus
Telling Africa’s stories
Chinese media
Looking ahead
Note
5. Doing research on unstable ground: The ebb and flow of Brazilian South–South cooperation, from Lula to Bolsonaro
Introduction
The rise of Brazilian SSC during the Lula da Silva administration
Rousseff, Temer, Bolsonaro and the uncertain future
Concluding remarks
Notes
References
Vignette: Interrogating the binary in Brazil’s agricultural cooperation for development
Brazil’s agrarian dualism
Multiple binaries
Challenges for the researcher
Binary as ‘agonistic pluralism’
Whose binary counts in SSC?
Note
References
Vignette: Writing about South–South Development
Cooperation as a Mexican diplomat
Notes
References
6. Interrogating the solidarity narrative: Rediscovering difference through African–Asian Gender Politics
Our research interest: African–Asian gender politics in a global context
Bringing a feminist lens to African–Asian relations – or, what we
intended to do
Reflections on a research process – or, what transpired
Shifting perspectives
Situating ourselves within a project on South–South relations
Building bridges across areas
Rediscovering difference – or, gender politics, North–South
dynamics and their implications
References
Vignette: The ‘avuncular’ gatekeepers: Interrogating authority,
authenticity and autonomy in South–South Cooperation
scholarship in India
Notes
Vignette: Experiencing gender and positionality as a female
professional in the Korean official development assistance
(ODA) sector
Positionality
Disjuncture, gender identity
Overcoming gender injustices in the Korean ODA sector: Move forward
References
7. Let’s focus on facilitators: Life-worlds and reciprocity in researching ‘Southern’ development cooperation agencies
Introduction
Facilitators
Life-worlds and positionalities: Facilitators in ‘Southern’
development cooperation agencies
Giving and receiving: Facilitators and research bargains
Mutual facilitation: Towards reciprocity
Conclusion
Notes
References
Vignette: “When you leave, they will kill me”: Ethnography,
ethics and (post)colonial entanglements in SSDC research
Research ethics as life and death
SSDC research from the North: Desire, authenticity and ‘voice’
(Post)colonial meanings: Unravelling race and power in crosscultural encounters
“Field work” and (post)colonial politics
Notes
References
Vignette: “I’m talking to you because you are Polish”:
Reflections on identities and historical memories in researching
North–South relations.
Note
References
Conclusion: Aiming for meaningful connections in knowledge
production on South–South Development Cooperation:
Navigating and overcoming inequalities
Is critical SSDC research postcolonial?
What is the impact of power and inequalities on SSDC research?
Language
Institutional hegemonies
Neoliberalization of the academy
How do we critically examine positionalities in SSDC research?
How can critical SSDC research contribute to the public sphere and democracy?
Notes
References
Index