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- Convenor:
-
Ben Garner
(University of Portsmouth)
- Stream:
- E: Everyday inequalities
- Location:
- D5
- Start time:
- 29 June, 2018 at
Time zone: Europe/London
- Session slots:
- 1
Short Abstract:
This panel explores the theme of racial inequality in the contemporary global order. It is particularly interested in the extent to which we live in a world characterised by "global apartheid": how useful is this as a way of conceptualising global inequality today - both empirically and politically?
Long Abstract:
This panel invites papers that address the theme of racial inequality in the contemporary global order. Since the 1970s, the concept of "global apartheid" has informed much research and activism on this theme, based upon the claim that inequality on a global scale is structured around a colonial axis and what Howard Winant referred to as "a centuries-old pattern of white supremacy". However, a number of scholars have begun to question the continued relevance of this global apartheid model, particularly in the wake of recent global political, economic and cultural changes (eg Dunaway and Clelland, 2017).
In addition to papers that examine the theme of global racial or ethnic inequality more broadly, this panel is therefore particularly interested in papers that address the following kinds of questions: to what extent do we continue to live in a world characterised by a form of "global apartheid"? How useful is this phrase (and was it ever useful) as a way of conceptualising global inequality - both empirically and politically? In the context of the DSA annual conference, the panel is also interested in papers that explore the role that the policy and practice of international development can play in upholding and/or challenging contemporary patterns of racial inequality at a global level.
Papers from this panel will be part of a journal special issue proposal on the theme of contemporary global racial inequality.
Accepted papers:
Session 1Paper short abstract:
This paper responds to recent discussions regarding the contemporary relevance of the concept of "global apartheid". It reviews some of these discussions and seeks to open up an analysis of the nature, role and function of racism within contemporary global discourses of security and development.
Paper long abstract:
This paper responds to recent discussions regarding the contemporary relevance of the concept of "global apartheid". It begins by reviewing some of these discussions and situating them within the context of longer-term attempts to draw attention to the centrality of race/racism to global inequality. The paper then departs from some of the more empirically focussed attempts to map shifting global divides between populations or "races" across the world system (eg Dunaway and Clelland, 2017) by focussing on the role of racism within contemporary global rationalities and technologies of security and development.
Paper short abstract:
South africa is currently facing a challenge of inequalities of varying manifestations. The most visible inequality is in the housing sector. In this paper, i argue that the local inequalities are a product of global colonial designs that control the making of local histories.
Paper long abstract:
Despite the challenge of inequality in South Africa is often attributed to local factors, this phenomenon is fundamentally a product of global coloniality- a power structure that influence local development. In South africa, there is a glaring symbiotic relationship between the local history's of apartheid and global apartheid which has survived the demise of "official" apartheid in 1994. In this paper, i examine the prevalence of colonial-type relationships in the housing sector of South Africa, tracing their genesis to the advent of modernity/coloniality.
Paper short abstract:
The production and dissemination of knowledge in comparative public policy is defined by academic imperialism.The paper aims to go beyond the positivist methodology through novel thinking which shifts existing knowledge production asymmetries in the global social sciences.
Paper long abstract:
The production and dissemination of knowledge in public policy is defined by academic imperialism exemplified in the global division of labour; where the Global South exists as a 'zone of collecting data' and the Global North produces and reproduces itself as a 'zone of theory and knowing'. This paper aims to answer the following question: how does the production of knowledge in comparative public policy in the Global South lead towards the imagination of a more democratic social science? The question is answered by locating discursive debates within the sociology of knowledge. Data from 38 beneficiaries of South Africa's and Brazil's social assistance programmes suggest that local questions have global relevance in shaping methodological perspectives toward an authentic democratization of knowledge production in the Global Social Sciences. The paper aims to go beyond the positivist tradition in comparative public policy studies shifting the locus of enunciation by generating knowledge from the geography of the subaltern. Drawing on the works of Southern critical theorists, the paper argues that a novel approach of thinking with methodological perspectives is mandatory in shifting existing knowledge production asymmetries in the global social sciences. Four social artifacts were found to be instrumental toward a transcendence of academic imperialism, race and gender, language, geography and the researchers' positionality in the global division of labour.