GLOBAL SOUTH & EAST

The AESOP TG Global South & East provides a platform for the mutual interaction of planning scholars, researchers and practitioners from different world regions. The group members are willing to reflect on ideas, concepts, theories (including 'Southern theories'), practices, that make sense in this context. They are interested in knowing how the 'knowledge' produced in this TG can be useful for their work, no matter where they are. The group also reflects on teaching students, particularly international ones, who are travelling globally. We are equally interested to hear reactions to this group, of scholars from indigenous societies in the North.

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AESOP International PhD Workshop in India/ AESOP India Planning Exchange
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
Dear all, We are delighted to share the news that AESOP ExCo and CoRep have approved our thematic group proposal to...
Global South & East
Video recording of the session on TheoriSE: debating south-eastern turn in planning theories, co-organised with DPU, UCL
Saturday, December 02, 2023
Please find the link below to the session on TheoriSE: debating south-eastern turn in planning theories co-organised...
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Online session on Theorise: Debating south-eastern turn in urban theories
Monday, October 16, 2023
Please find the link below to register for our online session on 29th November at 4.30 pm UK time on the book...
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Decolonisation of Planning Praxis in Africa
Saturday, October 07, 2023
Date : 31st October, 2023 Time : 4:00 pm London time (Daylight time saving ends on 29th October.) 6:00 pm Central...
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Online Lecture on Publication from the South
Monday, May 01, 2023
Dear all, Please join us for an online lecture on "Publication from the South" by Dr. Olivier Sykes from University of...
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Online lecture on International Planning Education
Saturday, April 15, 2023
An online lecture on "International Planning Education" by Paulo Silva, AESOP representative to GPEAN, GPEAN Vice...
Global South & East
AESOP TG GLOBAL SOUTH - ONLINE LECTURE -14 APRIL
Thursday, March 09, 2023
There will be an online lecture on 'International Planning Education' by Paulo Silva on 14th April at 2:00pm GMT. This...
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AESOP TG Global South - Online Lecture -15 February
Saturday, December 31, 2022
There will be an online lecture on 'Conceptualising the Global South' by Raewyn Connell on 15th February at 9:00am...
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First online meeting: Planning Theories and Practices for Global South
Tuesday, June 14, 2022
The first online meeting for the new AESOP Thematic Group Planning Theories and Practices for Global South Date: 15th...

The main aims of the Global South & East are:

  • To embrace all positionalities and to open up radically new dialogues and relationships;
  • To consider the South as above all a genealogical relation - the history of North/South (post-) colonial relations - and a set of ontologies and epistemologies (post-/de-colonial, subaltern, southern...) that, by expanding the geographies of theorisation, have above all made social sciences (and planning), in a word, better;
  • To exchange our descriptive views and normative positions about planning with regard to Global south and Global East;
  • To learn about planning practices from the South-Eastern context;
  • To be actively involved in preparing research policy and practice documents through collaboration.

Online lectures

Publication from the South
Raewyn Connell: 'Conceptualising the Global South' - Part One
Raewyn Connell: 'Conceptualising the Global South' - Part Two
Decolonisation of Planning in Praxis Africa