LOCATING

THE
GLOBAL
SOUTH
Professor Rolando Tan Herrero
The used to describe countries in the Asia (with the exception of Korea,
China, Japan, Singapore etc), Central America, South America,
Mexico, Africa and some parts of the Middle East

Global used by the World Bank and other organizations, identifying

South
countries with one side of the underlying global North–South divide,
the other side being the countries of the Global North.
The Starbucks and the Shanty
when you buy a product from Starbucks, for example, in the Philippines,
there is a huge chance that outside the store, beggars and shanty houses are
lined up.
While if you buy Starbucks in a first world country, you are not likely to
experience or encounter these unfortunate events..

The Starbucks may be a globalized brand brand but that doesn't stop
reducing poverty. Poverty is a long time problem yet to be solved, it is not
modern nor it is global.

Thus, the Starbucks represent the global North while the shanty, the global
south.
WHAT IS OCCLUDED
WHEN WE
EMPHASIZE THE
STATE?
• the state of countries that are
considered in the bracket of the global
south can't be merely diminished in a
short span of time with plain
speculations but instead, a long time
plan.

• poverty can grow so fast and

unstoppable without a responsible
leader backing up a plan to
diminish or eradicate poverty
COLONIALISM.
MODERNITY • The global south originated as the product of Western imagination.

AND RECREATION OF • When the Spanish conquest of Latin America happened in the 16th
GLOBAL INEQUALITY century, it was conceived by the world of Christian faith.

• The conquest saw more the Christian civilization and Christian

believers as no only as lesser, but as minor beings

• Later on, the French mission colonized countries to spread civilization

that led to subjugation of vast parts of Africa and Southeast Asia in the
19th century.

• The USA did the same to the Philippines in 1898. They grounded them
of their own free wills believing they can take hold of the country.

• In 1944, during the creation of UN did the Western powers officially

abandoned this racial course
The
Modernization
Theory
WAS U SE D TO E X PL A IN T H E
PR OC E SS O F
M O DE R N IZ ATI ON O N E
N ATI ON G O E S T H R O U G H A S
IT C O N V E RT S FR O M A
T R A DIT IO N A L SO CIE T Y TO A
M O DE R N O N E .

FO R E XA M PL E,
T H E AM E R IC A TO T HE
PH IL IPPIN E S
Challenging T H ER E A R E D I FFE R E N T R E A C T I O NS I N TH E

the Colonial PRE SE N T D AY O F TH E G L O B AL SO U T H

R E SPO N D I N G TO C O L O N I A LI SM A N D V I SI O N S
O F MO D E R N I T Y

Order
1. THE RESISTANCE AGAINST
SPANISH COLONIALISM IN
THE PHILIPPINES
2. VLADIMIR
LENIM
• Social democrats like Vladimir Lenim
argued for communists to construct an
alliance with national elites and radical
peasants to fight against colonialism.

• Vladimir Lenim served as the head of

government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to
1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922
to 1924.
2. HO CHI MINH
• Ho Chi Minh led a long and ultimately
successful campaign to make Vietnam
independent. He was president of North
Vietnam from 1945 to 1969, and he was
one of the most influential communist
leaders of the 20th century. His seminal
role is reflected in the fact that Vietnam's
largest city is named for him.
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Bandung O F T HE D E V E LO PI N G FO R M O F C O L O NI AL I SM L E D B Y T H E
FO R M ER PR E SI D E NT O F I ND O N E SI A , SU KA R N O

Conference • Sukarno was the leader of the Indonesian struggle for independence from the Dutch Empire. He
was a prominent leader of Indonesia's nationalist movement during the Dutch colonial period
and spent over a decade under Dutch detention until released by the invading Japanese forces in
World War II.
The Global
South as New
Internationalism
Example, Greece was hit by a global European crisis
that eventually made Greece fall in the hands of
prostitution, heroin addiction, decrease of budgets in
hospitals, increasing malaria and poverty. Greece
became an example of global south with their
experiences which proves the global south is becoming
international.