Un-Mapping the Global South: (Transdisciplinary Souths)

This book offers new approaches and insights into the ongoing and topical discussions on the concepts and definitions of the global south. Instead of adding to the debates about how to properly define the "global south" as such, it aims at emphasising concrete experiences and accounts of (post-)colonial dislocation and disidentification as both a starting point and linchpin for the subsequent exploration. It brings into conversation theories and interrogations of the "global south" with specific local studies, without presenting them as the romanticised "other" or as "non-western" narratives. As a bold initiation of future conversations on issues that both directly and indirectly affect ideas about the global south, the volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of critical theory, literary and cultural studies, and global south studies.

Table of Contents:
1. Introduction I. Regimes of Subjectivities and Power Relations: (Re)Presenting Space 2. Alternative Cartographies of Mexico: Violence, Hope, and Future 3. Talking History: Ethnographic Interviews, Intersectional Identities, and Power Negotiations in Research Encounters 4. Class Divides and Poverty in the Postcolonial Graphic Novel: A Reading of Sarnath Banerjee’s The Harappa Files (2011) 5. (Dis)Orientation Matters: On the Man Who Walked a Spiral and Other Tales of Breaking with Colonial Mobility II. Glocalising the South: Bodies and Territories 6. The South as a Moving Ground: Images, Subjectivities and a Black Sense of Space 7. Who May Speak on Whose Behalf: Queer Representation in India 8. ‘Going Global?!’ – Black Lives Matter, the ‘Global South’ and the Issue of ‘Worldmaking’ 9. The Poetical and the Political: Walking Across Boundaries with The Kabir Project 10. Decolonising the Brazilian Musical Scene: Race, Gender, and Sexuality III. Dystopian Spaces/Utopian Spaces: Inventing Futures 11. Unmasking a Cryptic-South: The Spatial Emergence of the ‘Abhuman’ 12. Performing Resilience: The Trope of the Theatre in Frank McGuinness’s Carthaginians and Derek Walcott’s A Branch of the Blue Nile 13. Homing Change: Soul City as Re-Filiation 14. The Invention of Joyful Black Territories: Body, Style, and Music in Contemporary ‘Black Parties’ in Brazil 15. They Yelled Me Aberration: Inexistentialism and Fugitivity 16. Fabulations from the South: Speculating with Brazilian Black Cinema

About the Author :
Gero Bauer teaches English Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Tübingen and is the managing director of Tübingen’s Center for Gender and Diversity Research. Nicole Hirschfelder teaches and researches North-American literary and cultural studies at the University of Tübingen. Fernando Resende is Senior Lecturer and Research Coordinator at the Department of Media and Cultural Studies and at the Graduate Program in Communication at Universidade Federal Fluminense and the coordinator of TRAVESSIA – Centre for Global South Studies and Researches. PQ/CNPq Grant Resarcher.