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Global Development, Converging Divergence and Development Studies: A Rejoinder

The 2022 floods in Pakistan, one of the most recent catastrophic natural disasters, highlighted critical vulnerabilities in governance, infrastructure, and climate resilience. This study investigates the framing of the floods in newspapers from the Global North and Global South. The newspapers under investigation included The Guardian, The New York Times, The Times of India, and Dawn. The study used a cross-sectional research design. Under the rubric of framing theory, utilizing quantitative content analysis, the study examines the prevalence of key frames in the press of the Global North and the Global South. The findings revealed a dominance of solution, vulnerability, and responsibility frames. Moreover, the Global North and Global South framed human causes, i.e., larger societal forces, as responsible, rather than natural causes. In addition, the victimization frame is more focused than community-led efforts. Notably, the solutions primarily emphasized international aid and climate adaptation, and other local governance and community adaptation frames. These results underscore the dual role of Global North and Global South media both as advocates for global climate justice and narrators of humanitarian crises, while also highlighting gaps in resilience narratives and local agency. This study contributes to framing theory by exploring the interplay of global and local narratives in disaster reporting. It emphasizes the need for balanced, actionable solutions in media discourse on climate-induced disasters to ensure climate justice.

This paper primarily aims to provide a citation-based method for exploring the scholarly network of artificial intelligence (AI)-related research in the information science (IS) domain, especially from Global North (GN) and Global South (GS) perspectives. Three research objectives were addressed, namely (1) the publication patterns in the field, (2) the most influential articles and researched keywords in the field, and (3) the visualization of the scholarly network between GN and GS researchers between the years 2010 and 2020. On the basis of the PRISMA statement, longitudinal research data were retrieved from the Web of Science and analyzed. Thirty-two AI-related keywords were used to retrieve relevant quality articles. Finally, 149 articles accompanying the follow-up 8838 citing articles were identified as eligible sources. A co-citation network analysis was adopted to scientifically visualize the intellectual structure of AI research in GN and GS networks. The results revealed that the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom are the most productive GN countries; by contrast, China and India are the most productive GS countries. Next, the 10 most frequently co-cited AI research articles in the IS domain were identified. Third, the scholarly networks of AI research in the GN and GS areas were visualized. Between 2010 and 2015, GN researchers in the IS domain focused on applied research involving intelligent systems (e.g., decision support systems); between 2016 and 2020, GS researchers focused on big data applications (e.g., geospatial big data research). Both GN and GS researchers focused on technology adoption research (e.g., AI-related products and services) throughout the investigated period. Overall, this paper reveals the intellectual structure of the scholarly network on AI research and several applications in the IS literature. The findings provide research-based evidence for expanding global AI research.

There is an extensive body of work on global work and cross-cultural collaboration. However, there is reason to believe that unique dynamics emerge when work occurs across and between the Global North and Global South, a phenomenon which has been understudied in management scholarship. The research in this symposium seeks to explore those dynamics. When considering dynamics between the Global South and Global North, management research has often focused on the mechanisms by which status hierarchies between the Global South and Global North are maintained. This symposium moves scholarship on collaboration between the Global South and Global North beyond the status hierarchies that have importantly been examined to consider a more scope of questions and uncover dynamic processes. For example: How do the Global North and South influence one another as individuals and organizations in each seek to build capacity? How do the Global South and Global North shape one another’s imaginations, work identities and sense of the meaning of their work? In what ways do work interactions and collaborations challenge and frustrate respective parties, and in what ways do these interactions empower and enrich participants?

What’s in a Term: Can Feminism Look beyond the Global North/Global South Geopolitical Paradigm?

This paper explores how international partnerships are conceptualized between core Anglophone, European and African universities. Internationalization strategies are examined from a decolonial lens to situate the findings within a global context that is entangled in the consequences of colonialism and ongoing coloniality that continue to perpetuate global inequities, including devaluing of indigenous and local knowledge. Findings suggest that institutions in the Global North still view Africa, and the Global South in general, from a deficit lens and in need of aid, knowledge and direction. Strategies from the Global North use terms like mentoring, development and poverty reduction when describing their partnerships in the Global South. In contrast, institutions from Africa highlight their desire to be knowledge producers and contribute to research excellence on a global level. Furthermore, institutions in all regions frame strategic international partnerships as those that will boost their reputation or image as they engage in a race for status and global rankings; however, strategies do not describe how they will approach such partnerships in a very uneven global playing field between the Global North and Global South. Finally, the Global South continues to be viewed as a source of international students and as such, partnerships pursued in Africa and the Global South by core-Anglo and European institutions focus on recruitment of students as one of the rationales or benefits of partnerships. Given these findings, international strategies for Global North-South partnerships continue to reproduce colonial hierarchies of privilege, preventing more equitable approaches to partnerships.

The concept of Global North and Global South (or North–South divide in a global context) is used to describe a grouping of countries along the lines of socio-economic and political characteristics. The Global South is a term generally used to identify countries in the regions of Latin America, Africa, Asia and Oceania. Most, though not all of the countries in the Global South are characterized by low-income, dense population, poor infrastructure, often political or cultural marginalization,[1] and are on one side of the divide; while on the other side is the Global North (comprising the United States, Canada, all European countries, Russia, Israel, Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand and few others depending on context).[2][3][4] As such, the terms Global North and Global South do not refer to the directional North-south as many of the Global South countries are geographically located in the Northern Hemisphere. Countries that are developed are considered as Global North countries, while those developing are considered as Global South countries.[6][1] The term as used by governmental and developmental organizations was first introduced as a more open and value-free alternative to "Third World"[7] and similarly potentially "valuing" terms like developing countries. Countries of the Global South have been described as newly industrialized or are in the process of industrializing, and are frequently current or former subjects of colonialism.[8] The Global North generally correlates with the Western world—with the notable exceptions of Israel, Japan, and South Korea—while the South largely corresponds with the developing countries and the Eastern world. The two groups are often defined in terms of their differing levels of wealth, economic development, income inequality, democracy, and political and economic freedom, as defined by freedom indices. States that are generally seen as part of the Global North tend to be wealthier and less unequal; they are developed countries, which export technologically advanced manufactured products. Southern states are generally poorer developing countries with younger, more fragile democracies heavily dependent on primary sector exports, and they frequently share a history of past colonialism by Northern states.[8] Nevertheless, the divide between the North and the South is often challenged.[9] South-South cooperation has increased to "challenge the political and economic dominance of the North."[10][11][12] This cooperation has become a popular political and economic concept following geographical migrations of manufacturing and production activity from the North to the Global South[12] and the diplomatic action of several states, like China.[12] These contemporary economic trends have "enhanced the historical potential of economic growth and industrialization in the Global South," which has renewed targeted SSC efforts that "loosen the strictures imposed during the colonial era and transcend the boundaries of postwar political and economic geography."[13] Used in several books and American Literature special issue, the term Global South, recently became prominent for U.S. literature.[14]

Compact cities are promoted in policy as a response to current societal challenges, but it is unclear or ambiguous what qualities or benefits a compact city is supposed to deliver. The concept of the compact city is widely debated in the research literature, and there are numerous arguments both for and against compact cities. However, many studies or reviews tend to apply a delimited approach, discussing a confined number of qualities or basing the assessment on fairly narrow empirical material. Research is also carried out from within a number of separate disciplines or “discourses”. This paper aims to provide a clearer and more consolidated understanding of the wide spectrum of qualities that make up the compact city in support of better planning, governance and management of cities in the Global South. The objective is to present a review of current articles discussing the compact city in order to capture similarities and differences in the academic discourse between Global North and Global South contexts, and to outline a comprehensive compact city taxonomy. This is achieved by answering three questions: (1) What types of urban qualities are discussed in scientific articles studying urban compactness? (2) (How) do articles focusing on Global North and Global South contexts differ when it comes to exploring compact city qualities? and (3) Do the findings indicate areas of research withing the broader scope of urban compactness where research should be initiated or strengthened? The analysis is based on literature searches in the Scopus database for 2012-2015 using the search term “compact city”. A quantitative assessment was carried out, sifting out what terms are used to label purported (or debated) qualities of compact cities. Papers are sorted into different categories according to geoeconomic context (i.e. Global North, BRICS, Global South). The outcome is an extended taxonomy of compact city qualities, including twelve categories. Weaknesses in compact city research aimed at cities in the Global South were identified, linked in particular to nature, health, environmental issues, quality of life, sociocultural aspects, justice and economy, as well as a significant lack of compact city research linked to urban adaptability and resilience.
 The analysis is based on literature searches in the Scopus database for 2012-2015, using the search term “compact city”. A quantitative assessment was carried out, sifting out what terms are used to label purported (or debated) qualities of compact cities. Papers are sorted into different categories according to geoeconomic context (i.e., Global North, BRICS, Global South). The outcome is an extended taxonomy of compact city qualities, including twelve categories. Weaknesses in compact city research aimed at cities in the Global South were identified, especially linked to nature, health, environment issues, quality of life, sociocultural aspects, justice and economy, as well as a significant lack of compact city research linked to urban adaptability and resilience.

Purpose The purpose of the paper is to instate a glocality perspective for understanding the design, challenges and coping mechanisms in configuring circular textile value chains. Design/methodology/approach This is a conceptual paper based on extensive background research conducted with the post-consumer textiles and clothing value chains across Europe, Asia and North Africa. During the research, data were collected from circular textile value chain actors via interviews, case studies and field visits, which were complemented by discussions held with various researchers and multi-lateral organizations such as the International Trade Center, promoting textile circular economy (CE) cross-border. Findings We perceive two principal glocality challenges predominantly arising at both value chain and policy levels due to conflict and misalignment of different operating systems, a local one, wherein global north (GN) and global south (GS) are decoupled, versus a global one, where Global North-South acts as coupled links. We further outlined two coping mechanisms, namely orchestration mechanism to address value chain level challenges and harmonization mechanism that can solve challenges at the policy level. Research limitations/implications This perspective is deemed to make valuable contribution to CE researchers who are working or are interested in studying the circular transition of the global textile industry. Practical implications The work can pave way to understanding how circular textile ecosystems can be designed and configured to function successfully in practice. Social implications The Global North-South view acknowledges a co-opetitive mode of operation, that is competitive coexistence of global and local (glocal) instead of a “winner-takes-it-all” ballgame. By doing so, the unintended consequences created by silo views of textile circularity can be mitigated as stakeholders in the GN and GS can share knowledge, technology and resources, fostering mutual growth in an equitable manner. Originality/value The paper unfolds a unique perspective on understanding glocal supply chain configurations and dichotomies in the textile CE context.

The Global North and South discourse has become established to imply power inequalities between countries in the Global North and those in the South. As argued by Comaroff and Comaroff (2012), the South continues to be the suppressed underside of the North which always presents the South in the shadow of the North. Although this is conceived in terms of different regional countries, the Global North and South power dynamics are still present internally within the various Global South contexts themselves even without the Global North presence. Internally, within countries classified as the Global South, the Global North/South power dynamics may be seen between ethnic minority groups and the dominant ethnic groups who usually take the role of the Global North. The ethnic minority groups such as the San in Botswana are usually depicted from the Global South perspective whereby they are always presented as tracking behind in development and having to be playing catch up. Using the post-colonial theory, this chapter uses the Global South/North discourse to explore the tensions within development ontologies for the San in Botswana.

In first-hand social videos, people who move between the Global North and Global South share their own first-hand experienced stories through visuals and narration and a personality frame (and voice). Within these narrations about societal interfaces, there are stories of human transactions: tuition for learning (talent for tuition), money for products/services, money for travel and tourism, health interchanges, and friendship and conflict. These interchanges may be broken down into three metanarratives of the transaction: >, <, and = (greater than, less than, and equal to), or “who comes out ahead.” This work involves the visual analysis of selected personal social videos shared on YouTube to better understand the visual messaging around >, <, and = in Global North and Global South transactions and what these visuals in social videos might suggest about human-to-human social transactions, advantage-taking, and people taking each other's measure, at the micro (or ego) level.

IntroductionFood system transformation is required for planetary health. Localizing food systems and applying agroecological principles to food production and supply have been suggested to support a resilient and sustainable food system. This scoping review aimed to map the implementation of interventions designed to promote the consumption of locally produced food, their application of agroecological principles and the outcomes evaluated, across Global North and Global South countries.MethodsSearches were conducted systematically in 15 databases. Screening was conducted against criteria to identify eligible studies and data extracted in REDCap and EPPI Reviewer. Data were narratively synthesized, and results displayed as tables, figures and an interactive evidence gap map.ResultsWe found 147 eligible studies describing interventions to promote the consumption of locally produced food. Only two studies reported the impact of intervention on local versus non-local food procurement and we identified a lack of a standard framework for assessing the impact of changing food source practice. Most studies reported dietary outcomes, mainly fruit and vegetable intake, and less used metrics for dietary diversity, particularly in the Global North. A small proportion (5%) reported ecosystem related outcomes. All home growing interventions were conducted in the Global South and most school-based growing interventions were conducted in the Global North. Agroecological principles were applied to Global North and Global South interventions, but a greater proportion of the Global South studies applied agroecological practices (GS 30%; GN 4%).DiscussionThis map of experimental research on local food interventions identifies key differences in intervention types and agroecological principles and practices applied in Global South and Global North countries, potential learnings between settings, and gaps in the evidence. We call for greater coherence in the development, evaluation and reporting of local food interventions to enable synthesis on their effectiveness and to strengthen evidence on local food approaches aiming to improve human nutrition and planetary health.Systematic review registrationhttps://www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/view/CRD42023428104, identifier [CRD42023428104].

The differences between the countries of the 'Global North' and those of the 'Global South' are clear in various fields, namely sociocultural fields, due to unequal wealth distribution and its consequent economic inequalities. But to what extent can the phenomenon of urbanization join these two worlds that seem so far apart? Considering the rapid urbanization of several cities in the Global South today, compared with the stabilized rate of urbanization in the Global North, information sharing would be beneficial and the Global North may provide guidance to those rapidly growing cities presently undergoing the process of urbanization. Such a transmission of knowledge could be achieved through cooperation between social institutions, such as universities and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and social actors, such as public decision-makers. Editors Agostino Petrillo and Paola Bellaviti, in their book Sustainable Urban Development and Globalization: New Strategies for New Challenges, present a number of practical examples from around the world of such cooperation between the Global North and Global South.. This review presents a general summary of the book, as well as an evaluation of its possible contribution to the field of urban sociology.

This research paper investigates the application and effects of scarcity marketing strategies across the diverse economic environments of the Global North and Global South. Differentiating itself from other promotional strategies, scarcity marketing, founded on theories such as commodity theory and psychological reactance, has become a popular tool in the marketing arsenal especially in the digital age — however, its form and effectiveness differs based on economic context. This study shows contrast here with the ways in which scarcity is used in the Global North to claim luxury, exclusivity and technological sophistication for brands by building their scarcity strategies around digital platforms, while in the Global South, genuine scarcity or rarity is more common so that the talk tends to be of building scarcity with more nuance. These differences make it crucial to adopt the methods that take into account concerns about affordability, cultural values and earning the trust of communities. While acknowledging the limited nature of the current literature, especially the shortage of literature on the Global South, this review paper strives to lay the groundwork for the establishment of contextually relevant, ethical, and sustainable marketing practices in both Global North and Global South markets. It adds on the ongoing discussion about how marketing approaches need to adjust to shifting economic landscapes and consumer priorities.

The COVID-19 pandemic created one of the biggest disruptions in human life. We were all confined within the walls of our homes or offices with day-to-day life worldwide seriously affected. In this context, access to and efficient use of technology determined the course of daily life for vast sections of the world’s population. However, there was (and still is) a severe pre-existing global divide between the Global North and Global South vis-à-vis digital access. This paper attempts to understand this digital divide and how it has widened during the pandemic in the Global North and Global South with reference to India and the United States (US). This is initiated by analyzing certain factors within each country, namely positional and personal categorical inequalities. Through the cases of the US and India, the authors conclude that the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the global digital divide between the two worlds, affecting core social sectors like education and health. The larger implication of this is a broadening inequality between the Global North and Global South in leading development indicators like the Human Development Index.