Online seminar series: What is the Global South and why it matters - Session 3

What is the Global South and why it matters?

Speaker: Dr Onwubiko Agozino, Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies, Virginia Tech

The Global South is not a metaphor, contrary to assertions by descendants of settler-colonizers. The Global South is the home of the global majority and the origin of human life. The Global South continues to feed the greed of the Northern minority who invaded to kidnap millions for enslavement during hundreds of years of human trafficking, stole the land of Indigenous Peoples and subjected them to genocide, built fortresses and prisons to incarcerate the survivors, and continue to wage genocidal wars for the control of the resources of the Global South.

The Indigenous Peoples of the Global South remain generous in offering to share their resources and labour power in equal exchange with the big fat frog that wishes to drink up all the water in the world even if all other beings die of thirst, we continue to send our best human resources to provide technical foreign aid to the ungrateful Global North that thanks us with crimmigration all over global Deathscapes. The Global South testifies that we have enough to give to all according to their needs and take from all according to their abilities.

About the speaker

Dr Onwubiko Agozino is a professor of sociology and Africana studies, Virginia Tech. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh (PhD). the University of Cambridge (MPhil), and the University of Calabar (BSc). He is the author of Black Women and the Criminal Justice System: Towards the Decolonisation of Victimisation, and of Counter-Colonial Criminology: A Critique of Imperialist Reason. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Criminology Division on Critical Criminology and Social Justice, 2024. He was a Fulbright-Hays fellow on a group project abroad to study creative responses to climate change in Tanzania, 2024.

About the seminar series

The series features speakers from across the world, drawn from social science and social work disciplines who explore how concepts related to the Global South impact policy and practice. The series will be of interest to academics, professionals, students, researchers and policy makers eager to diversify their knowledge and make their professional practice more inclusive. It would appeal to those working in the areas of criminal justice including prisons, probation services and policing, education, nursing, psychology, social science, sociology and social work.

The series is set up to encourage discussion and debate with time for a paper and discussion – so please come along and join the debate! The topics can be found on the Eventbrite link.

The seminar series is chaired by Dr Amy Duvenage and Professor Elaine Arnull, Southampton Solent University, who are happy to hear from you if you have any questions/comments:

elaine.arnull@solent.ac.uk

amy.duvenage@solent.ac.uk

Everyone is welcome – whether you are an expert in the area or wanting to hear what the Global South is and what ideas the speakers have about it.