Through four presentations, this International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)-International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) joint panel offers a critical engagement with contemporary configurations of the world system, foregrounding perspectives from the Global South.
South-South connections have long been articulated in political and socio-cultural milieu through anticolonial and anti-imperialist solidarities, ideas such as Pan-Asianism, Pan-Africanism, Afro-Asianism and Third Worldism.
South-South connections have continued to flourish in all forms – bilateral and multilateral trade and investment, multidirectional human mobility, diplomatic relations and cultural projects. Amidst the growing trends of populism, nativism and authoritarianism in the global landscape, developments and exchanges in the Global South remain more important than ever for their ability to develop new paradigms for governance and development and question long-held Eurocentric epistemologies and knowledgescapes.
Presentations and Speakers
- Shyamika Jayasundara-Smits and Nanneke Winters (ISS) - Against the Current: Reimagining Securitized Water Borders through Hydro-Social and Archipelagic Encountering
- Helena Pérez Niño (ISS) - Into the job market through the back door: Filipino migrant workers in Malaysia
- Meera Venkatachalam (IIAS) - Africans in India: Rethinking theories of mobility, migration and diasporisation from the Global South
- My Hang Thi Bui (IIAS) - Go to the bustling South: Aspirations, capabilities, and Asian emigration regimes in Korean migration to Vietnam
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