Keywords: Globalization, the Global South, Global Mental Health (GMH), Southern epistemologies, syncretism, conviviality, porosity Three key features of the Global South – conviviality, porosity and syncretism – are discussed with examples from my practice of cultural consultations in child psychiatry and family therapy in Haiti and Brazil. A feature of GMH, “the health gap” is contrasted with “the epistemic gap,” a divide between the epistemologies of the North and emergent Southern epistemologies.
I then turn to globalization and its critics, examining critiques of economics, human rights, and problems associated with humanitarian services.
A brief history of the Global South reveals that it is wider and deeper than economic and geopolitical notions such as the Third World, the developing world and the Non-Aligned Movement, across a broad swathe of history and culture. The Global South: An Emergent Epistemology Summary In this essay, I discuss the sociopolitical notion of the Global South as a bridge between globalization and the Global Mental Health (GMH) movement.
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