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Verticalism and its underbelly

By KDSMurray | Published: 26 February 2009
How is it that the North seems to sit above the South? Does this support a world that gives superior value to what originates from the North, as opposed to the problems in the lowly South? How might this vertical orientation be contested? This paper was presented at the International Conference on Hegemony, Counter Hegemony [...]
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Is the South a mirage?

By admin | Published: 25 April 2008
A recent workshop in Valparaiso has revealed a contradiction in the Idea of South between the view from above and below. It’s a contradiction between romance and realism which is felt particularly keenly in Chile. The University of Valparaiso has a small but adventurous design course where students go out to work with a remote [...]
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