Space Making in the Global South: Lessons from the GCC-Mercosur Agreement
Abstract This article proposes a revised approach to the mainstream definition and understanding of the term ‘Global South’ by anchoring its meaning in a relational view of space. Secondly, it presents the GCC-Mercosur agreement as a case study that illustrates the obstacles involved in the making o...
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Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro
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| description | Abstract This article proposes a revised approach to the mainstream definition and understanding of the term ‘Global South’ by anchoring its meaning in a relational view of space. Secondly, it presents the GCC-Mercosur agreement as a case study that illustrates the obstacles involved in the making of spaces in the Global South. The main research question addressed here is: Why has the GCC-Mercosur framework agreement failed to materialize into a meaningful economic space? This question will be answered through David Harvey’s theoretical insights and Doreen Massey’s relational approach to space, as well as post-structural geography. This article argues that the promise of increased trade and investment was the basis on which the GCC-Mercosur economic space was designed, but the narrowness of the framework agreement’s scope and the socio-political relations organized around it have not been able to sustain or strengthen this Global South space. This study employs discourse analysis as its main methodological technique, grounded on a Foucauldian understanding of the empirical properties of discursive activities. It concludes by advocating for the need to incentivize a broader engagement of civil society in the processes of Global South space making. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d07bcef4d9074f779f1a278868f175d32022-12-21T19:36:16ZspaPontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de JaneiroContexto Internacional1982-02402021-01-0143193110.1590/s0102-8529.2019430100001Space Making in the Global South: Lessons from the GCC-Mercosur AgreementSilvia Ferabollihttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-0589-3998Abstract This article proposes a revised approach to the mainstream definition and understanding of the term ‘Global South’ by anchoring its meaning in a relational view of space. Secondly, it presents the GCC-Mercosur agreement as a case study that illustrates the obstacles involved in the making of spaces in the Global South. The main research question addressed here is: Why has the GCC-Mercosur framework agreement failed to materialize into a meaningful economic space? This question will be answered through David Harvey’s theoretical insights and Doreen Massey’s relational approach to space, as well as post-structural geography. This article argues that the promise of increased trade and investment was the basis on which the GCC-Mercosur economic space was designed, but the narrowness of the framework agreement’s scope and the socio-political relations organized around it have not been able to sustain or strengthen this Global South space. This study employs discourse analysis as its main methodological technique, grounded on a Foucauldian understanding of the empirical properties of discursive activities. It concludes by advocating for the need to incentivize a broader engagement of civil society in the processes of Global South space making.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-85292021000100009&tlng=enGlobal Southrelational spaceGCC-Mercosur AgreementSouth-South relationsArab-Latin American relations. |
| spellingShingle | Silvia Ferabolli Space Making in the Global South: Lessons from the GCC-Mercosur Agreement Contexto Internacional Global South relational space GCC-Mercosur Agreement South-South relations Arab-Latin American relations. |
| title | Space Making in the Global South: Lessons from the GCC-Mercosur Agreement |
| title_full | Space Making in the Global South: Lessons from the GCC-Mercosur Agreement |
| title_fullStr | Space Making in the Global South: Lessons from the GCC-Mercosur Agreement |
| title_full_unstemmed | Space Making in the Global South: Lessons from the GCC-Mercosur Agreement |
| title_short | Space Making in the Global South: Lessons from the GCC-Mercosur Agreement |
| title_sort | space making in the global south lessons from the gcc mercosur agreement |
| topic | Global South relational space GCC-Mercosur Agreement South-South relations Arab-Latin American relations. |
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