{"title":"South–South medical tourism","authors":"M. Ormond, H. Kaspar","doi":"10.4324/9781315624495-30","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315624495-30","url":null,"abstract":"Demographic and epidemiological transitions in global South countries, on the one hand, and the neoliberalisation both of national health systems and international development aid, on the other, have produced widening health gaps between those who can afford care and those who cannot. The vast majority of so-called medical tourists receiving treatment in global South destinations today are themselves from other parts of the global South, their transnational movements reflecting and fostering asymmetrical social, economic and political relations that enable actors in some countries to be in a position to address the care deficiencies of people in other countries. This chapter argues that medical tourism reconfigures relations between and within source and destination countries’ populations, by establishing novel forms of post-national market-mediated solidarities and forms of aid. Furthermore, medical tourism reconfigures relations between national governments and their citizens by advancing subjects’ neoliberal self-responsibilisation or reclaiming bonds of social solidarity between states and their subjects. These alliances between medical tourism destinations’ private hospitals, at one end, and national and state governments, insurers, intermediaries, and individuals and their families, at the other, largely bypass government-to-government diplomatic and aid relations. This upends conventional thinking about the geography of care and solidarity.","PeriodicalId":308546,"journal":{"name":"Routledge Handbook of South–South Relations","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116977232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Geographies of South–South relations and regionalisation processes in Latin America-Caribbean","authors":"Thomas Muhr","doi":"10.4324/9781315624495-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315624495-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":308546,"journal":{"name":"Routledge Handbook of South–South Relations","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114335785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"South–South cooperation in international organisations","authors":"N. Omata","doi":"10.4324/9781315624495-20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315624495-20","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":308546,"journal":{"name":"Routledge Handbook of South–South Relations","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132941443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The ‘need to be there’","authors":"E. Carpi","doi":"10.4324/9781315624495-22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315624495-22","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explores North-South encounters and mutual imaginations within humanitarian economies, a term I use to refer to the organised systems of assistance provision that address people affected by war and rely on their own repertory of values and norms. Based on the research I conducted in northern Lebanon (Akkar) and Beirut’s southern suburbs (Dahiye) between 2011 and 2013, it advances a critical reflection on the tension that exists between the philanthropic spirit of the humanitarian system as it is implemented in the “global South” (Butt 2002) and local and refugee responses to what I call “Southism”. The Southist intent of the Northern humanitarian system to care for, rescue, upgrade, and assist Southern settings – and that, as I will discuss later, partially transcends physical geographies combines personal affection with necessity, and collective compassion with professional aspirations. In this sense, I use the notion of Southism in a way that resonates with the “monumentalisation of the margins” (Spivak 1999, p. 170), which crystallises needs and areas of need in the global South while powerfully acknowledging the good intentionality of humanitarian workers. As such, I propose Southism both as a concept and a mode of analysis which indicates a structural relationship between different sets of providers and beneficiaries, rather than a mere act of assisting the South with a philanthropic spirit. Specifically, Southism, as a mode of analysis, is underpinned by a preconception of the South as disempowered and incapable, while cementing the “global South” as the key symbolic capital of Northern empowerment, accountability, and capability. To some extent, I think of Southism as a peculiar configuration of Orientalism (Said 1978). By departing from Said’s theory which aimed to capture the history and character of Western attitudes, ideologies and imaginations towards the East and by further problematizing West-East/North-South political geographies, I draw on Southism to enhance our","PeriodicalId":308546,"journal":{"name":"Routledge Handbook of South–South Relations","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116836763","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"South–South education relations","authors":"Thomas Muhr, M. Azevedo","doi":"10.4324/9781315624495-27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315624495-27","url":null,"abstract":"Publisher's copyright statement: This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Muhr, T. & Azevedo, M. L. N. (2019). SouthSouth education relations. In Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Patricia Daley (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of South-South Relations. (pp. 357-369). London: Routledge.. This article may be used for noncommercial purposes in accordance with the Publisher's Terms and Conditions for self-archiving.","PeriodicalId":308546,"journal":{"name":"Routledge Handbook of South–South Relations","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127680826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Postcolonialism and South–South relations","authors":"D. Davies, E. Boehmer","doi":"10.4324/9781315624495-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315624495-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":308546,"journal":{"name":"Routledge Handbook of South–South Relations","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133190372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A political economy analysis of South–South youth relations in Africa","authors":"G. Mwaura","doi":"10.4324/9781315624495-26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315624495-26","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":308546,"journal":{"name":"Routledge Handbook of South–South Relations","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125592511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"South–South relations in the academic world","authors":"G. Mathews","doi":"10.4324/9781315624495-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315624495-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":308546,"journal":{"name":"Routledge Handbook of South–South Relations","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123676582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}