The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South
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Vijay Prashad
LeftWord, 292 pages, ₹ 600
A global history that examines the prospects of a worldwide power shift from North to South.
Prashad describes the political movements that the Global South has struggled to build—the World Social Forum, issue-based movements like Via Campesina, the Latin American revolutionary revival—as alternatives to the neoliberal project advanced militarily by the US and its allies and economically by the IMF, the World Bank, the WTO. ‘Global South’ properly refers not to geographical space but to a concatenation of protests against neoliberalism, says Prashad.
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