The moral mappings of south and north / / edited by Peter Wagner.

• Superior document: Annual of European and global studies
• TeilnehmendeR: Wagner, Peter, 1956 September 18-
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press,, 2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Annual of European and global studies.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 225 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 25 Jan 2018).

This book explores the possible meanings of the 'Global South' and assesses the advantages and disadvantages of adopting it for understanding the contemporary world. It casts a wide exploratory net, addressing historical transformations of world-interpretation and wider cultural-intellectual meanings.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Finding One’s Way in Global Social Space -- 2 Does the World Have a Spatio-political Form? Preliminaries -- 3 The BRICS Countries: Time and Space in Moral Narratives of Development -- 4 Russia between East, West and North: Comments on the History of Moral Mapping -- 5 Digging for Class: Thoughts on the Writing of a Global History of Social Distinction -- 6 North–South and the Question of Recognition: A Constellation Saturated with Tensions -- 7 On Spaces and Experiences: Modern Displacements, Interpretations and Universal Claims -- 8 The South as Exile -- Index