Description
As BRICS signals a rebranding with a new meaning assigned to the acronym, this volume examines the potential for BRICS to become a collective developmental force for the Global South and East and an agency that seeks to enhance the role of the ‘global majority’ in global governance.
The volume provides insights into why is it important to re-evaluate the alternatives that BRICS+ offers at this juncture and what is transformative about global politics today that encourages this discussion. Moving beyond traditional discussions of geopolitics and geoeconomics, the volume delves into the possibilities of the platform emerging as an agency of conflict management but also its impact on infrastructure and alternative finance, climate governance, food security, labour market reforms and gendered digital empowerment.
The volume also explores the possibility of the foundation of a cultural agenda that reinforces the group’s commitment to multilateralism. Written from multiple disciplinary perspectives, the volume provides comparative analysis from across BRICS countries to offer perceptions, approaches and solutions from the Global South to critical issues.
Within this context, the volume posits the idea of ‘social BRICS’, as a framework capable of reconciling the bloc’s statist architecture with ethical, ecological and community-rooted imaginaries. This timely volume will be of interest to scholars of international politics and economics and also policy and decision makers from across the Global South as the search for alternatives transcends traditional concerns and moves towards innovative solutions to challenges particular to the 21st century.
CONTRIBUTORS: Anita Sengupta, Biao Xiang, Byasdeb Dasgupta, Debashree Chakraborty, Iman Mitra, Paula Banerjee, Priya Singh, Rajat Kanti Sur, Ranabir Samaddar, Ranjana Saxena, Rashmi Doraiswamy, Ratnadeep Maitra, Ravi Arvind Palat, Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury, Shatabdi Das and Sohini Sengupta
Published Price: £ 39.95; INR 1,495; $ 49.95
