Researching South-South development cooperation : the politics of knowledge production / edited by Emma Mawdsley, Elsje Fourie and Wiebe Nauta.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The (im)possibility of Southern theory : the opportunities and challenges of cultural brokerage in co-producing knowledge about China-Africa Relations / Giles Mohan, Ben Lampert, May Tan-Mullins and Richmond Atta-Ankomah -- Where is the South? : global, postcolonial and intersectional perspectives / Ruben Gonzalez-Vicente -- Devouring international relations : anthropophagy and the study of South-South cooperation / Adriana Erthal Abdenur -- Has research gone South? : perspectives of a Brazilian researcher in Britain / Rubens de S. Duarte -- Criticizing your 'motherland' to foreigners? : the dilemma of critical scholarship and self-censorship in analysing Korea's foreign aid as a national(istic) project / Sung-Mi Kim -- 'We need people like you' : reflections on identity and expectations in South-South cooperation research / Cynthia Kamwengo -- Silent North, loud South : reflections on transnational research in Afrasian and Afrabian spaces / John Njenga Karugia -- A plea for kaleidoscopic knowledge production / Mayke Kaag and Miriam Ocadiz -- The politics of knowledge production and post/de/anti-colonial positionality / Han Cheng -- Difference within similarity : how South-South Cooperation research should no longer label 'difference' as an obstacle to partnerships / Natalia Herbst -- The Africa-China Reporting Project in Johannesburg as South-South journalism nexus / Barry Van Wyk -- Doing research on unstable ground : the ebb and flow of Brazilian South-South cooperation, from Lula to Bolsonaro / Let�icia Cesarino -- Interrogating the binary in Brazil's agricultural cooperation for development / L�idia Cabral -- Writing about South-South development cooperation as a Mexican diplomat / Gerardo Bracho -- Interrogating the solidarity narrative : re-discovering difference through African-Asian gender politics / Rirhandu Mageza-Barthel and Uta Ruppert -- The 'avuncular' gatekeepers : interrogating authority, authenticity and autonomy in SSC scholarship in India / Supriya Roychoudhury -- Experiencing gender and positionality as a female professional in the Korean ODA sector / Jinhee Kim -- Let's focus on facilitators : life-worlds and reciprocity in researching 'Southern' development cooperation agencies / Sebastian Haug -- 'When you leave, they will kill me' : ethnography, ethics and (post)colonial entanglements in SSDC research / Katherine Howell -- "I'm talking to you because you are Polish" : reflections on identities and historical memories in researching North-South relations / Katarzyna Baran -- Conclusion / Wiebe Nauta, Emma Mawdsley and Elsje Fourie.

"Over the last two decades the expanding role of Southern countries as development partners has led to tectonic shifts in global development ideas, practices, norms and actors. Researchers are faced with new questions around identity, power and positionality in global development. Researching South-South Development Cooperation examines this rapidly growing and complex phenomenon, asking to what extent existing assumptions, conceptual frameworks and definitions of 'development' need to be reframed in the context of researching this new landscape. This interdisciplinary book draws on voices from across the Global South and North to explore the epistemological and related methodological challenges and opportunities associated with researching South-South development cooperation, asking what these trends mean for the politics of knowledge production. Chapters are interspersed with shorter vignettes, which aim to share examples from first-hand participation in and observation of South-South development cooperation initiatives. This book will be of interest to anyone conducting research on development in the Global South, whether they are a practitioner or policy maker, or a student or researcher in politics, international development, area studies, or international relations"-- Provided by publisher.