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South-South Cooperation and Neo-liberal hegemony in a Post-aid world

Yes / South-South Cooperation SSC) has returned as a significant trope in the contemporary
rhetoric of the aid industry. We compare the way that the idea of SSC is being currently
constructed. In the 1960s and 1970s, SSC was discussed as constituting a challenge to the
ideological dominance of the global north, presented initially as a counter-hegemonic
challenge to neo-colonialism. Currently it is framed similarly as a challenge to neoliberalism.
However, the current iteration of SSC differs fundamentally from the first round in the early
1970s, largely because of differences in assumptions about who is co-operating with whom
and to what end, in the context of SSC. These differences are significant for the material
practice of SSC and the ideological function of SSC rhetoric.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/13381
Date24 March 2018
CreatorsMorvaridi, Behrooz, Hughes, Caroline
Source SetsBradford Scholars
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeArticle, Accepted Manuscript
Rights© 2018 Wiley This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Morvaridi B and Hughes C (2018) South-South Cooperation and Neo-liberal hegemony in a Post-aid world. Development and Change. 49(3): 867-892, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12405. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.

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