Arts plastiques, Littérature / édition, Histoire/société
ANTHOLOGIE | Octobre 2015
Southern Panoramas: Perspectives for other geographies of thought
Sabrina Moura
ISBN : 978-85-69298-14-4
Dewey : Histoire géographie
Pages: 234
Prix : 20.00
Parution : 01 Octobre 2015
English
The book SOUTHERN PANORAMAS | PERSPECTIVES FOR OTHER GEOGRAPHIES OF THOUGHT (19th Festival of Contemporary Art SESC_Videobrasil, Edições SESC) organized by Sabrina Moura, explores the notion of Global South as an axis of thought and knowledge production.
Conceived as an anthology of texts, the book features contributions from various disciplines and offers a critical perspective on the formation of the concept of South. "Over the last twenty years, the South expands on a global level, configuring a map of historical and political experiences that have refused to keep within hemispheric lines. If its uses sometimes incur in the contradictions inherent in binary thought, they also indicate new and complex flows of economic, cultural and symbolic capital", says Sabrina, who brought together works of artists Joaquin Torres-Garcia and Cildo Meireles, philosopher and political scientist Achille Mbembe, researcher and writer Ana Longoni, art critic Geeta Kapur, among others.
By presenting essays, historical documents and manifestos, the publication features debates previously unpublished in Portuguese — as the work of South African anthropologists Jean and John Comaroff on Southern theories — and translates into English reference texts written by Brazilian authors, such as Spatiotemporal relations in the developing world, written by the geographer Milton Santos in 1976 during his exile in Paris.
From the claims of non-aligned countries that gained strength during the Cold War to the emergence of post-colonial thought and its critique, the publication offers an important contribution to the debates that question the validity of Eurocentric representations and narratives.
Conceived as an anthology of texts, the book features contributions from various disciplines and offers a critical perspective on the formation of the concept of South. "Over the last twenty years, the South expands on a global level, configuring a map of historical and political experiences that have refused to keep within hemispheric lines. If its uses sometimes incur in the contradictions inherent in binary thought, they also indicate new and complex flows of economic, cultural and symbolic capital", says Sabrina, who brought together works of artists Joaquin Torres-Garcia and Cildo Meireles, philosopher and political scientist Achille Mbembe, researcher and writer Ana Longoni, art critic Geeta Kapur, among others.
By presenting essays, historical documents and manifestos, the publication features debates previously unpublished in Portuguese — as the work of South African anthropologists Jean and John Comaroff on Southern theories — and translates into English reference texts written by Brazilian authors, such as Spatiotemporal relations in the developing world, written by the geographer Milton Santos in 1976 during his exile in Paris.
From the claims of non-aligned countries that gained strength during the Cold War to the emergence of post-colonial thought and its critique, the publication offers an important contribution to the debates that question the validity of Eurocentric representations and narratives.
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