1. Towards the Global South: concept or chimera, paradigm or panacea? Russell West-Pavlov; Part I. Origins: 2. Bandung nostalgia and the Global South Duncan M. Yoon; 3. Thinking about the Global South: affinity and knowledge Dilip M. Menon; 4. The Global South: modernity and exceptionality Sudesh Mishra; 5. Latin America, uneven development, political economy and the Global South Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado; Part II. Developments: 6. The Cold War and the (Global) South Atlantic Kerry Bystrom; 7. Critical theory: made in Brazil Fabio Akcelrud Durão; 8. Anxieties of influence and origin in the black Atlantic John Drabinski; 9. Sugar and the Global South: substance of new Solidarities Nadja Gernalzick; Part III. Applications: 10. Inoperable relations and urban change in the Global South Abdoumaliq Simone; 11. Biopolitics and the potentia of literature Andrew McCann; 12. Extractive industries in the Global South: development, necropolitics, globalization and planetary ethics Russell West-Pavlov; 13. Muslim migrants and the Global South Tabish Khair; 14. Love's labours lost in the Global South Teresita Cruz-Del Rosario; 15. Queering the Global South: Mu Cao and his poetry Hongwei Bao; 16. Uneasy returns: the literary turn to the South Pashmina Murthy; 17. Political theology, literature and the Global South Simon During; 18. Genres of the Global South: the picaresque Jens Elze; 19. South of the graphics: Gandhi, Mandela and telling lives Pramod Nayar; 20. Literary theory, Salman Rushdie and the Global South Vijay Mishra; 21. Medievalism on country Jenna Mead; 22. Against the Global South Isabel Hofmeyr.