Paper Session Conceptualizing an Unequal Order: Historical Perspectives on the North-South Divide
39th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association
Toronto, Ontario, CA, November 6-9, 2014
Greetings!
We are putting together a Paper Session for the States and society Network at SSHA next November in Toronto, Canada titled “Conceptualizing an Unequal Order: Historical Perspectives on the North-South Divide”. Below you will find an abstract that specifies the kind of issues we would like to discuss during the session.
If you’re interested, please send us your abstract to equipoGEHD@gmail.com . Abstracts are due on February 14, so we would need to receive your abstract no later than February 12.
Study Group on History and Discourse Analysis.
University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Call for Papers: “Conceptualizing an Unequal Order: Historical Perspectives on the North-South Divide”
In recent years, the widespread use of “postcolonial” and ” decolonizing” perspectives has encouraged the problematization of unequal relations between central countries and the global south. Consequently, not only many core social science concepts have been discussed (such as “modernity” or “development”), but also its epistemological status has been disputed.
In this session we propose to resume some of the historical memoires that underlie –more or less explicitly- under these current challenges to international order. We are referring to the different proposals , alternatives and objections that since the postwar period have questioned the knowledge-power relationships between the “global north” and the “global south”: For example, the intellectual production related to colonial struggle and to the movement of non -aligned countries, subaltern studies, the debates on the New International Economic Order, the theoretical alternatives against the “Rostow theory”( such as the center-periphery perspective or the dependency theory ), the debates around “limits” of growth and “alternative” development styles (1969-1979), or also, the deployment of technologies for national development planning in ” third world” countries.
Chair: Ana Grondona (University of Buenos Aires)
Discussants: Kevan Harris.
More information about the SSHA States and society Network can be found at:
http://www.ssha.org/networks/states-a-society
SSHA conference information is available at the organization’s website: http://www.ssha.org/
