Descripción del proyecto
La historia invisible de las Naciones Unidas y el Sur Global
Aunque dos terceras partes de los Estados miembros de las Naciones Unidas pertenecen al Sur Global, la perspectiva occidental domina la historia de las Naciones Unidas. El proyecto financiado con fondos europeos INVISIHIST ofrecerá una nueva narrativa sobre las Naciones Unidas al destacar la participación y la repercusión de los países del Sur Global a la hora de configurar las Naciones Unidas. Esto permitirá crear una nueva genealogía descolonizada de la organización y una historia mundial de los países del Sur Global a lo largo del tiempo. Examinará archivos de todo el Sur Global y revelará historias invisibles de las Naciones Unidas en el período comprendido entre 1945 y 1981. El proyecto considerará la repercusión de los países del Sur Global con respecto a la descolonización, el desarrollo económico y los derechos humanos, rastreará las formas en que desafiaron el orden mundial liberal y analizará cómo esto condujo a jerarquías de poder, inclusión y exclusión dentro y entre las Naciones Unidas y el Sur Global.
Objetivo
Of the 193 member states of the United Nations (UN), over half belong to the grouping known as the Global South (also called the Developing World or Third World). Since its creation in 1945, Global South actors have sought to redefine political dynamics and change normative practices through the UN. Yet, histories of the organization are predominantly from the Western perspective. Challenging this view, this research will make a ground-breaking contribution to the field, providing a new genealogy of the UN within the contextual frame of global history in order to investigate how Global South actors shaped global order. It will bring together different perspectives of the UN from archives across the Global South, revealing currently invisible histories of the organization by examining how it was developed by Global South actors between 1945-1981. The project has 3 closely related objectives: 1. To examine how actors from the Global South changed the UN by developing its functions in the areas of decolonization, economic development and human rights; 2. To trace the ways in which Global South actors challenged the liberal world order as they pursued these rights; 3. To analyze why Global South agency at the UN led to the promotion of some issues and actors and excluded others and ask what the consequences were for order within the Global South. The project’s innovative contribution is in explaining the ways in which the UN has changed over time by placing an emphasis on the dynamic role of Global South actors. The research will elucidate histories of the ordering role of institutions at a moment when global governance is in crisis and the liberal world order appears to be fragmenting. Its primary impact will be in decolonizing the historiography by highlighting the historical agency of Global South actors, and transposing the importance of the organization in the longer history of the latter half of the twentieth century to provide a truly global history of the UN.
Ámbito científico
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Régimen de financiación
ERC-STG - Starting GrantInstitución de acogida
2311 EZ Leiden
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