CONTENT InSights Claudio Pinheiro (Brazil) Moral Geographies of Development: A Preliminary Approach. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
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InDeeds ■ Dilvo Rostoff (Brazil), International Cooperation in Higher Education: Trends and Challenges . . . . . 10
Maxim Khomyakov (Russia), BRICS Network University: A New Paradigm of the BRICS Collaboration in Higher Education?. . . . . . . . . . . . 18 ■
InShort ■ Shen Yi (China), Center of BRICS studies. Fudan University. . . . . . . 27
Anatoly Aleksandrov, Sergei Korshunov, Vladimir Kruzhaev, Anna Boikova (Russia), Association of Sino-Russian Technical Universities: Reaching Its 5th Anniversary of Achievements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
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Jose Celso Freire Jr. (Brazil), The role of FAUBAI in promoting the internationalization process of Brazilian Higher Education Institutions. . . . 32
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InSights Moral Geographies of Development: A preliminary approach Prof. Cláudio Pinheiro
Sephis Programme, Chairman Department of History, Rio de Janeiro Federal University, Brazil,
[email protected]
Economists and Sociologists are quite familiar with the expressive variety of terms used to frame development in terms of a certain spatiality – poor and rich countries, developed and underdeveloped regions, peripheral or semi-peripheral areas, etc. Quite often this vocabulary fluctuates and some terms become popular, while others fall into disuse: First or Third World, Asian Tigers, BRICS, etc. The fluctuation in this semantics reflects, on the one part, how the debate on development perceives the oscillation of growth and wealth through regions and countries. It also shows how the discourse on production of wealth frames geographical perceptions of the world, and finally refers to a demand for political recognition of regions and States underrepresented in global geopolitics.
In all cases, these perspectives refer to the semantics associated with the geography of the frontiers of capitalism, organized under the idea of emergence and decadence – forecasting the future of global economics on development. Cyclic crises of capitalism are often regarded as geographical perceptions concerning forthcoming development and underdevelopment. The recently invented N-11 – the “Next Eleven Countries” for the promotion of global development including Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, South Korea, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines, Turkey, and Vietnam – can be a good example. The concept was introduced in 2007 by specialists of Goldman Sachs to foresee the successors of the BRIC countries, an acronym also developed at Goldman Sachs in 2001, that gained enormous strength after the 2008 crisis
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