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Southern Theory: The Global Dynamics of Knowledge in Social Science
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This article is published in Policy and Practice; a Development Education Review.The article was published on 2013-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 644 citations till now.read more
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Theory from the South: Or, How Euro-America is Evolving Toward Africa
Jean Comaroff,John L. Comaroff +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, anthropologists Jean and John Comaroff draw on their long experience of living in Africa to address a range of familiar themes - democracy, national borders, labour and capital and multiculturalism.
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Gender, health and theory: conceptualizing the issue, in local and world perspective.
TL;DR: In this paper, a relational approach to understand gender on a global scale is proposed, where gendered embodiment is seen as interwoven with the violent history of colonialism, the structural violence of contemporary globalization, and the making of gendered institutions on a world scale including the corporations, professions and state agencies of the health sector.
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Thinking cities through elsewhere Comparative tactics for a more global urban studies
TL;DR: In this article, a new grounding for comparison is proposed, specific to the field of the urban, and a new typology of tactics for undertaking urban comparative research is suggested, weaves together classic approaches and more recent innovations in comparison from within urban studies with a wider philosophical analysis of the issues at stake in reframing the architecture of comparison.
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Using southern theory: Decolonizing social thought in theory, research and application:
TL;DR: The authors traces the effects of a world economy of knowledge structured by the history of colonialism, and challenges managerial assumptions about homogenous knowledge domains, and traces the consequences of a global knowledge economy.
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Intimacy as a Concept: Explaining Social Change in the Context of Globalisation or Another Form of Ethnocentricism?
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the analytical potential of intimacy in terms of its analytical potential for understanding social change without the one-nation blinkers sometimes referred to as'methodological nationalism' and without Euro-North American ethnocentrism.
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Theory from the South: Or, How Euro-America is Evolving Toward Africa
Jean Comaroff,John L. Comaroff +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, anthropologists Jean and John Comaroff draw on their long experience of living in Africa to address a range of familiar themes - democracy, national borders, labour and capital and multiculturalism.
Journal ArticleDOI
Gender, health and theory: conceptualizing the issue, in local and world perspective.
TL;DR: In this paper, a relational approach to understand gender on a global scale is proposed, where gendered embodiment is seen as interwoven with the violent history of colonialism, the structural violence of contemporary globalization, and the making of gendered institutions on a world scale including the corporations, professions and state agencies of the health sector.
Journal ArticleDOI
Thinking cities through elsewhere Comparative tactics for a more global urban studies
TL;DR: In this article, a new grounding for comparison is proposed, specific to the field of the urban, and a new typology of tactics for undertaking urban comparative research is suggested, weaves together classic approaches and more recent innovations in comparison from within urban studies with a wider philosophical analysis of the issues at stake in reframing the architecture of comparison.
Journal ArticleDOI
Using southern theory: Decolonizing social thought in theory, research and application:
TL;DR: The authors traces the effects of a world economy of knowledge structured by the history of colonialism, and challenges managerial assumptions about homogenous knowledge domains, and traces the consequences of a global knowledge economy.
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Intimacy as a Concept: Explaining Social Change in the Context of Globalisation or Another Form of Ethnocentricism?
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the analytical potential of intimacy in terms of its analytical potential for understanding social change without the one-nation blinkers sometimes referred to as'methodological nationalism' and without Euro-North American ethnocentrism.