Abstract
ABSTRACT In recent years, mounting criticisms of international development aid to education have led many policymakers, practitioners, and scholars to look to South-South cooperation (SSC) as an alternative. This study problematises the current fascination with SSC through a critical narrative inquiry of six Vietnamese experts in Mozambique, using the conceptual framework of the racial grammar of development. As a bilateral governmental exchange rooted in solidarity, the Vietnamese-Mozambican case of SSC indeed shows an alternative model to deliver international assistance. Nevertheless, this South-South cooperation is still an Asian-Black encounter where solidarity is subverted by the racial grammar that underwrites development aid. Vietnamese-Mozambican SSC is not an alternative to development, it is merely an alternative in development. Through centering global dynamics of racism beyond the Black–White dichotomy, this study contributes to the global education policy field a cautionary note against the romanticisation of the Global South.
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