Ahmed Hosni, Go Down Moses 80, 2008-10.

 

 

• How are we locating the MENA within the context of the Global South? 

• Why is it important to map historical and contemporary relationships between North Africa, the Middle East and the Global South? 

• How do we engage with such cartographies – and the historical and contemporary relationships contained therein – without instrumentalizing them? 

• How do we more fully formulate and develop new contexts and epistemological frameworks for producing knowledge in our field?

• How do we map transnational networks? And indeed, what can mapping such networks enable?

• Are there counter-hegemonic networks which exist but that are no longer peripheral?

• Does the periphery still exist; is it still possible to be 'other'?

• Do multiple centres exist or are they constructed states? 

• Have sub-regional ghettos formed within the Global South? 

• Are there inherent tensions within the context of the Global South?

• Could the Global South possibly be a new kind of essentialism?

• How, finally, can we rethink Occidental/Oriental paradigms without reinstating other binary rationales?