Global South en · PROPN
Etymology
First used in a political sense by Carl Oglesby in 1969.
Meanings
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A region predominantly composed of developing countries in Africa, Latin America, and Asia, regarded as half of a socioeconomic and political divide opposite to the Global North.
Where and what is the Global South? If you ask people on the street, many would probably not have the faintest idea. In everyday parlance and mass media, Global South has hardly become a household term. In academic and (global) policy circles, though, the term is used with much more gusto.
2015, Andrea Hollington, Oliver Tappe, Tijo Salverda, Tobias Schwarz, Concepts of the Global South. Voices from around the world., Global South Studies Center Cologne, archived from the original on 04 Sep 2016:A paragon from the Global South, as no one I know who lives there calls it, would be very 21st century, very au courant.
2023 February 11, Janan Ganesh, “After Germany’s fall, which is the paragon nation?”, in FT Weekend, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 22:Countries from the global south, including Brazil, Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo – mega-diverse countries home to the world’s three largest rainforests – wanted governments to agree to the creation of a new biodiversity fund as part of the Montreal pact to pay for new conservation targets.
2022 December 19, Patrick Greenfield, Phoebe Weston, “Cop15: historic deal struck to halt biodiversity loss by 2030”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 12 Aug 2023:Malagasy, like many indigenous languages in the Global South, has few formal language resources. When Jagwar – born in Madagascar — discovered Wiktionary as a teenager, he saw an opportunity to correct this.
2020 August 4, Cyrus Multhauf, “How a Malagasy Teenager Created the World’s Second-Largest Dictionary”, in NEEM Blog, archived from the original on 04 Mar 2021:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Global South | canonical | lexicographic | |
| global south | alternative | lexicographic |
Antonyms
Relateds
developing country · Majority World · global majority · Third World
Translations (24)
es sur global (region) · bg глоба́лен юг (region) · pt sul global (region) · cmn 南方國家 /南方国家 (region) · ka გლობალური სამხრეთი (region) · ru глоба́льный юг (region) · hi ग्लोबल साउथ (region) · ar الْجَنُوب الْعَالَمِيّ (region) · be глаба́льны по́ўдзень (region) · fa-ira جَهانِ جُنوب (region) · pl Globalne Południe (region) · cmn 全球南方 (region) · ja グローバル・サウス (region) · uk глоба́льний пі́вдень (region) · hi वैश्विक दक्षिण (region) · vi nam toàn cầu (region) · nl globale zuiden (region) · fr sud global (region) · de Globaler Süden (region) · ar جَنُوب عَالَمِيّ (region) · be гляба́льны по́ўдзень (region) · it sud globale (region) · el Παγκόσμιος Νότος (region) · ko 글로벌 사우스 (region)