AGRIPA, DARYLL A.

DDM1 01/07/2021

Read the article "Locating the Global South by Lisandro E. Claudio" and be able to answer the ff.
questions;

1. How did the writer link shanties to globalization?

2. What is meant by the term "global south"?
3. Why does the global south resist globalization?

ANSWERS:

1. Based on my understanding, the shanties are described as poor people with poor sanitation and
child labor. They live in so-called weak states where governments are poor, week, corrupt, and
unstable to supply their citizens' basic needs. It is stated that these people are nearly evicted
from their homes because their houses may be demolished to make way for extensive
commercial development, which will serve the city's middle class. Most of them are employed in
an informal economic sector.

2. On one side of the so-called global North-South divide, the Global South is a concept that
describes lower-income nations, with the Global North countries on the other side. Brazil, China,
India, Indonesia, and Mexico have the most significant populations and currencies among the
South countries. The global south is a concept, which, as I show below, operates under various
logics and is articulated by multiple subjectivities.

3. Governments are strongly opposing globalization because of the acute effects of negative
factors on people's national identities or sovereignty. Benedict Anderson (2007) has shown that
resistance against Spanish colonialism in Latin America and the Philippines benefitted from the
increased interaction of political dissidents amidst an early phase of globalization in the late
nineteenth century - globalization that allowed for the spreading of anarchist and anti-colonial
ideas. Anti-colonialism, though it emphasized domestic nationalism, was also an internationalist
project. And it also has mostly been a project of the political left.