Description
At one level, the idea of the Global South is confected as the world is more economically fragmented now. The impact of Covid and the knock-on effects of the Russia-Ukraine, Israel-Palestine conflicts portend large-scale economic stress and environmental disaster for many in the Global South. Today the voice of the Global South-indicates both widespread despair at the marginalisation of people’s interests and hope that leaderships of Global South countries can effectively highlight it. The people’s movements and collective pressures of domestic governance in BRICS countries have reflected the global south perspective countering the hegemonic forces. This is a start, but a rounded critical-feminist-ecological-race-conscious voice of the Global South needs collective epistemic strength. The present paper attempts to revisit the metaphoric binaries of global south/ global north, globalisation/de-globalisation and multilateralism/regionalism that represent the epistemic struggles of IR in the Global South. It is an attempt to probe these sites of theorisation/counter-theorisation to decipher the commonalities and differences that emerge in epistemic traditions of the Global South.
Keywords: Global North-South Binary, Marginalisation, Epistemic Struggles in IR
